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Chidi Nwankwo, Ijeoma Uchenna-Okoye and Chuka Ononye
Ideological mediation is dominated by two media practices observed in the data, namely, the representation of news actors’ positions on issues in the news, and the representation of news participants
Isaac Ojo Atere and Chukwunomsue Juliana Nwazodoni
Drawing on literature as a repository of cultural memory, the study examines Achebe’s representation of Igbo communal life, oral traditions, religious beliefs, governance and social hierarchies; Ngũgĩ’s depiction … theory of cultural memory. Using qualitative textual analysis, the study demonstrates that these representations are neither static nor merely celebratory. Rather, the novels preserve cultural knowledge while critically interrogating traditions
Chiagozie Eburuaja
Critical Discourse Studies. The findings show that identity is discursively constructed through self-representation/self-positioning, other-representation, comparison, polarisation, negotiation and resistance. These strategies construct and negotiate social, religious, gendered
Chidiebere Chukwuemeka Eze and Thomas-Michael Emeka Chukwumezie
Titles often provide condensed representations of the thematic and ideological concerns of literary works. In postcolonial fiction, ordinary words, objects, colours and structures can acquire metaphorical meanings that illuminate colonial … identifiers but as conceptual metaphors that provide interpretive entry points into the novels’ representations of coloniality, identity and social relations
Anthonia-Greg Nwanekwu Chibuoke, Caroline Olubunmi Nwaka and Goodluck Chinenye Kadiri
colonial Othering, fractured identity, dehumanisation, memory, and reconciliation. It argues that Tadjo’s representation of the 1994 Rwandan genocide challenges explanations that reduce the violence to primordial ethnic antagonism … theorisation of the Other, and supported by Edward Said’s account of colonial representation, Frantz Fanon’s analysis of psychological alienation, and Achille Mbembe’s concept of necropolitics, the article
Arilesere R. Mustapha and Funke J. Oni
Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA). This is to allow for thorough understanding of linguistic representation expressed in the data analysed as well as their ideological import. Findings of the study reveal
Taiwo, Joshua AJENIFARI
effective. Numerical details and recovered items provide evidential support for institutional competence, while actor representation places the police as protectors, criminal suspects as threats, and citizens as cooperative security partners
Petrina Ebinehita Gber and Joy Nwiyi
preservation. The findings reveal that guilt, denial, repression, displacement, transference and sublimation are literary representations of relatives’ traumatized responses to pathological disorder. The study concludes that illness narratives in Nigerian
Endurance Umhanlen and Esther Korakpe
organisations construct these experiences through coordinated verbal and visual resources. The study examines the representation of abuse and victimisation of PWDs in five purposively selected graphics posted on the official
TIAMIYU, Abiola Jamiu, AJAPE, Enitan Jamiu and Adelola Betty Amihere
discursive strategies for different ends. The study contributes a micro-linguistic account of ideological representation to research on Nigeria's digital political sphere, and argues that understanding contemporary Nigerian political