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1. Linguistic Analysis and Discourse StudiesVolume 23, Issue 1 (March 2023)pp. 123–143PDF of Impoliteness Strategies In X Posts of Some Supporters of Parties During The 2023 Presidential Campaigns In Nigeria

   Impoliteness Strategies In X Posts of Some Supporters of Parties During The 2023 Presidential Campaigns In Nigeria

   Abiola Mary Oladipo, Christian Chidubem Ugwu and Martha Omoseye Adurota

   This study examines impoliteness strategies in the X (formerly Twitter) posts of political party supporters during the 2023 Nigerian presidential campaigns and accounts for the contextual factors underlying impoliteness … Culpeper’s (1996) five impoliteness strategies to qualitatively analyse 9 purposively selected posts on X attributed to supporters of the three major political parties during the 2023 presidential election

2. Linguistic Analysis and Discourse StudiesVolume 25, Issue 1 (March 2025)pp. 467–484PDF of Ideological Discursive Strategies in the 2023 Nigerian Presidential Election: A Critical Discourse Analysis of Categorisation on Twitter (X)

   Ideological Discursive Strategies in the 2023 Nigerian Presidential Election: A Critical Discourse Analysis of Categorisation on Twitter (X)

   TIAMIYU, Abiola Jamiu, AJAPE, Enitan Jamiu and Adelola Betty Amihere

   This paper investigates how categorisation functions as an ideological discursive strategy in Twitter (X) discourse surrounding the 2023 Nigerian presidential election. Categorisation, understood here as the linguistic labelling of individuals

3. Linguistic Analysis and Discourse StudiesVolume 25, Issue 2 (September 2025)pp. 176–197PDF of Pragmatic Functions Of Pauses In Nigerian Online Chat Interactions: A Gricean And Austinian Perspective

   Pragmatic Functions Of Pauses In Nigerian Online Chat Interactions: A Gricean And Austinian Perspective

   Ngozi Georginia Ugochukwu and Prisca O. Bob

   pauses in Nigerian online chat interactions, focusing on platforms such as WhatsApp and X (formerly Twitter). While digital communication has been widely studied, the role of temporal and textual pauses … analysis of twenty purposively selected, anonymized chat excerpts drawn from Nigerian WhatsApp groups and X threads with semi-structured interviews involving 20 Nigerian participants. The findings indicate that pauses function

4. 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

   study draws on a corpus of 84 discourse units collected from public posts on X between January and July 2026, from which 13 extracts were purposively selected for detailed analysis