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1. Linguistic Analysis and Discourse StudiesVolume 25, Issue 2 (September 2025)pp. 311–332PDF of A Corpus-Assisted Sociopragmatic Study of Access, Ideology, and the Making of "Educated" Speech in Nigerian English-Pidgin Discourse

   A Corpus-Assisted Sociopragmatic Study of Access, Ideology, and the Making of "Educated" Speech in Nigerian English-Pidgin Discourse

   Andrew Ikpomwosa Egbah and Bridget Dahunsi Okunrobo

   Educated Nigerian English functions as a prestige variety, often contrasted with Nigerian Pidgin. Although sociopragmatic research views this distinction as interactionally constructed, cross-status discourse remains underexamined. This study investigates … negotiated in real time through an analysis of the Corpus of English and Nigerian Pidgin Code-switching (CENCOS). Adopting a sociopragmatic orientation, the study uses Teun A. van Dijk

2. Linguistic Analysis and Discourse StudiesVolume 25, Issue 1 (September 2025)pp. 318–342PDF of Multimodal Sacralisation of Everyday Nigerian Experience in Pentecostal Poster Discourse

   Multimodal Sacralisation of Everyday Nigerian Experience in Pentecostal Poster Discourse

   Dilichukwu Lilian Efobi and Toyin Deborah Olatunji

   while recontextualisation serves as a supporting analytical concept. Poster-by-poster analysis shows that Nigerian Pidgin, colloquial English, interrogatives, imperatives, taboo language and culturally familiar references are coordinated with portraiture

3. Linguistic Analysis and Discourse StudiesVolume 25, Issue 1 (September 2025)pp. 425–444PDF of Decoding Nigerian Memetic Expressions: Recursive Re-encoding and Youth Resistance in Platform Culture

   Decoding Nigerian Memetic Expressions: Recursive Re-encoding and Youth Resistance in Platform Culture

   Olakiitan Abolanle Oladipupo, Chidinma Deborah Ogbuonye and Ezinwanyi E. Adam

   This article examines four Nigerian memetic expressions, Sapa no fit catch me