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Emmanuel Ogbonna Okoro
This study examines discursive representation of social actors and ideologies in the judgement on Nnamdi Kanu by the Federal High Court of Nigeria in 2025. The study employed qualitative research … actions of Kanu, IPOB, and their allies. This study concludes that the judgment’s representation of social actors reflects and reproduces broader power dynamics and ideological contestation in Nigeria
Eze, Chidiebere Chukwuemeka, Chinasa Abonyi and Nicholas, Miracle Oluebubechi
This study examines the representation of female leadership in John Kargbo Kolosa’s Let Me Die Alone, a drama that explores women’s leadership within a patriarchal society. Despite
Mathias Okey Chukwu and Favour Raphael Ntor
This study examines the metaphorical representations of sex, men, and women in herbal sex-enhancement drug advertisements in Southeast Nigeria. The study is anchored on Lakoff and Johnson’s Conceptual … framing strategies that objectify women, mechanise male sexuality, and transform intimacy into labour. These representations reinforce unhealthy patriarchal norms and exploit anxieties for commercial gain, ultimately promoting distorted understandings
Alawode, Liasu Adebamiji Akinkunmi
examines the translation of gendered metaphor in Yoruba – English discourse, focusing on how metaphorical representations of gender are retained, transformed, attenuated, intensified, or reframed in English. The study adopts … Feminist Translation Theory provides a basis for examining the ideological implications of alternative English representations. The findings indicate that translation is not simply a neutral transfer of proverbial meaning. Metaphor
Okoro, Harmony Ezinne and Omoregie, Blessing Onaiwu Eyonju
Sexual violence inflicted on migrants and women of colour has always been
Onyema Anyanwu Uzoamaka and Christopher E. Nwabudike
Celebrity culture is an extension of popular culture that curates celebrities’ identities
Chidi Nwankwo, Justus Chidi Ugwu and Chuka Ononye
Linguistic studies on media representation of ND conflicts have utilised pragmatic, discourse analytical, and stylistic tools in exploring the contexts of participants’ engagement in the discourse, and the ideology … examines the discursive frames, linguistic forms, and ideologies that mark the Nigerian media’s representation of the major participants engaged in the conflict. The Federal Government (FGN) group (including
Caroline Olubunmi Nwaka and Anthonia-Greg Nwanekwu Chibuoke
poetry in relation to racial and gender identity, resilience, liberation, autobiography, orality, and the representation of Black womanhood, while studies of Kamau Brathwaite have largely focused on Caribbean history, African … trauma and embodiment studies, drawing on concepts that connect psychological experience, corporeality, memory, and representation. Methodologically, it employs qualitative textual analysis and comparative close reading of selected poems
Bello Ibrahim and Funke Oni Josephine
This study examines how poverty metaphors influence representations of government intervention and policy responses. The study uses a corpus-assisted qualitative design and conceptual metaphor theory developed by Lakoff … Desert Herald articles published between 2020 and 2025. In order to provide a representation of the print media in northern Nigeria, stratified sampling was used to select the three newspapers
Godwin Chibueze Didigwu, Matthew Chinenye NNuta and Bernice Nonye Ogbochie
public trust and electoral legitimacy and analyses how Appraisal resources contribute to socio-cognitive representations of presidential candidates, political institutions, electoral legitimacy and democratic participation. Adopting a qualitative descriptive design … reveal that lexicalisation, presupposition, modality, metaphor, pronouns, ideological polarisation and blame attribution construct competing representations of electoral credibility and institutional trust, while Attitude, Engagement and Graduation negotiate and intensify evaluations