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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 … mobilised during online political debate. The findings show that Twitter users repeatedly used categorisation to draw ingroup-outgroup boundaries, invoke stereotypes, legitimise preferred candidates, and delegitimise opponents, using identity markers
Ogechi I. Anyanwu, Uche J. Ngonadi and Elochukwu A. Nwankwo
SWOT and descriptive analysis. In the findings, the identified safety and security issues were categorised as potential and available safety and security threats. Also identified measures were classified into major
Ayobami Adetoro AFOLABI and Paul Ayodele ONANUGA
using AntConc 4.3.1 and qualitatively, following Hyland’s (2005) model of evidential stance, which categorises evidential stance into hedges and boosters. The results reveal that evidential stance