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CHAPTER FIVE 
CONCLUSIONS AND PEDAGOGICAL IMPLICATIONS 
5.0. Introduction 
This chapter aims at: (1) providing a summary of the other chapters; (2) discussing the 
conclusions of the study; (3) discussing the pedagogical implications of the study; (4) 
discussing the limitations of the study; and (5) providing some suggestions for further 
research. 
5.1. Summary of the Chapters 
Chapter one of the study, Introduction, was meant as a point of departure. It was 
primarily designed to provide a full-fledged and well-fangled introduction to the 
chapters which would come later. As such, it concerned itself with discussing the 
preliminaries, the purpose of the study, the scope of the study, the statement of the 
problems, and the outline of the study. 
Chapter two, Review of the Related Literature, was designed as a means of reviewing 
the background history of the field of sociolinguistics and pragmatics. It is useful in the 
sense that it will provide some kind of justification, or, say, answer, to any question 
(about the design of the present study as it is) that may pop up in the mind of the 
meticulous reader. In brief, this chapter: 1) elaborated on the significance of context and 
tried to illustrate the relationship between form, meaning, and function of an utterance; 
(2) provided a definition of pragmatics, traced the historical origin(s) of the different 
usages the term pragmatics has been put to, and outlined the scope of pragmatics; (3) 
reviewed the notion of the speech act theory, and enumerated the flaws and 
shortcomings involved with this theory; (4) delineated the different approaches to the 
study of conversation; (5) provided a periphery of such conversational principles as 
cooperative and politeness principles; (6) reviewed, in a detailed manner, the studies 
that had been carried out on invitations in general and ostensible invitations in