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1. Linguistic Analysis and Discourse StudiesVolume 25, Issue 2 (September 2025)pp. 1–21PDF of Pre-Election Construction of Public Trust and Electoral Legitimacy in Nigeria’s 2027 Presidential Election Discourse

   Pre-Election Construction of Public Trust and Electoral Legitimacy in Nigeria’s 2027 Presidential Election Discourse

   Godwin Chibueze Didigwu, Matthew Chinenye NNuta and Bernice Nonye Ogbochie

   Martin and White’s Appraisal Theory. Findings reveal that lexicalisation, presupposition, modality, metaphor, pronouns, ideological polarisation and blame attribution construct competing representations of electoral credibility and institutional trust, while Attitude

2. Literary Theory and CriticismVolume 25, Issue 1 (September 2025)pp. 188–210PDF of Trauma, Memory, And Rhetorical Construction In The War Declaration Speeches of Putin, Zelenskyy, Netanyahu, Abbas, And Haniyeh: A Caruthian Reading

   Trauma, Memory, And Rhetorical Construction In The War Declaration Speeches of Putin, Zelenskyy, Netanyahu, Abbas, And Haniyeh: A Caruthian Reading

   Onesimus Azunwanna and Comfort Adeleke-Adeniji

   suffering but as a rhetorical resource through which political leaders legitimise resistance and reinforce ideological positions. The speeches recurrently invoke historical wounds, national insecurity, and existential threats to cultivate solidarity

3. Linguistic Analysis and Discourse StudiesVolume 24, Issue 2 (September 2024)pp. 22–43PDF of Punctuation as a Grammatical and Meaning-Directing System: A Pragma-Sematic Analysis of The Punch’s Editorial on Bola Ige’s Murder

   Punctuation as a Grammatical and Meaning-Directing System: A Pragma-Sematic Analysis of The Punch’s Editorial on Bola Ige’s Murder

   Taiwo, Joshua AJENIFARI

   guide readers’ inferences. Consequently, punctuation constitutes an important resource for examining meaning construction, ideological positioning, and accountability discourse in Nigerian newspaper editorials

4. Literary Theory and CriticismVolume 24, Issue 1 (September 2024)pp. 62–84PDF of Scavengers of Democracy: Political Satire and Poetic Resistance in Tanure Ojaide’s Democratic Warlords and The Fate of Vultures

   Scavengers of Democracy: Political Satire and Poetic Resistance in Tanure Ojaide’s Democratic Warlords and The Fate of Vultures

   Adaobi Constance Muonagor and Rhema F. E. Oguche

   both poems, the paper interrogates how Ojaide uses satire as a stylistic and ideological weapon to critique the failures of postcolonial African leadership, particularly in the Nigerian democratic landscape

5. Linguistic Analysis and Discourse StudiesVolume 23, Issue 2 (September 2023)pp. 1–23PDF of Legitimation and Delegitimation Strategies in Selected 2023 Campaign Speeches of the

   Legitimation and Delegitimation Strategies in Selected 2023 Campaign Speeches of the

   Emmanuel Ogbonna Okoro

   Political discourse is used to convey ideology, power, and political identity through discursive strategies. Therefore, this study examined how de/legitimating strategies construct political identity and credibility in Mr Peter

6. Linguistic Analysis and Discourse StudiesVolume 23, Issue 2 (September 2023)pp. 24–47PDF of ‘The Japa Syndrome’: Framing Emigration Discourses of Selected Nigerian News Editorials on Brain Drain

   ‘The Japa Syndrome’: Framing Emigration Discourses of Selected Nigerian News Editorials on Brain Drain

   Onyinyechi Blessing Udoumoh

   poor working conditions as causal factors that engender brain drain. The editorials foreground ideological polarisation between Nigerian professionals as the ‘in-group’ objects of brain drain and the Nigerian government

7. Volume 22, Issue 2 (September 2022)pp. 25–49PDF of Stance, acts and identity construction in Christian response sermons on insecurity in Nigeria.

   Stance, acts and identity construction in Christian response sermons on insecurity in Nigeria.

   Nkechinyere Nwaegbe, Chidi Nwankwo and Chuka Ononye

   alleged to be perpetrated by Fulani (Islamic) bandits. Overall, these insights reveal the ideological processes that contribute to Christian-Muslim distrust in Nigerian politics