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Yahaya Ibrahim Aliyu and Ado Mamuda
including metaphors of light, trade, and disease, and demonstrates their role in shaping readers’ cognitive understanding and emotional engagement with the text. Utilizing Yusuf Ali’s English translation … that conceptual metaphors are not merely stylistic devices but function as fundamental mechanisms of cognition that enhance comprehension and interpretation of Quranic teachings. This research contributes to the fields
Godwin Chibueze Didigwu, Matthew Chinenye NNuta and Bernice Nonye Ogbochie
construct 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 … were purposively selected for detailed analysis. Data were analysed using van Dijk’s Socio-Cognitive Theory and Martin and White’s Appraisal Theory. Findings reveal that lexicalisation, presupposition, modality, metaphor
Chidi Nwankwo, Kenneth Ahaiwe and Chuka Ononye
colonial democracies often degenerates into hyper-partisanship and severe incivility, yet the underlying socio-cognitive and sociolinguistic mechanisms driving these aggressive digital linguistic attacks remain under-scrutinised. Addressing this … winner of the 2019 Nigerian presidential election on Sahara Reporters. Adopting a qualitative socio-cognitive approach grounded in Jonathan Culpeper’s (2011) pragmatic impoliteness framework, a working corpus
TIAMIYU, Abiola Jamiu, AJAPE, Enitan Jamiu and Adelola Betty Amihere
delegitimacy online. Drawing on Fairclough's socio-cultural model and van Dijk's socio-cognitive framework, the study examines ten purposively selected tweets, drawn to reflect a range of ethnic … political sphere, and argues that understanding contemporary Nigerian political communication requires attention to the cognitive, cultural, and linguistic processes through which citizens construct and contest political meaning online
Chinaguh, Emmanuel C.
identity and belonging in Nigerian political discourse. Guided mainly by van Dijk’s socio-cognitive approach to Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA), the study adopts a qualitative design and purposively selected
Ngozi Georginia Ugochukwu and Prisca O. Bob
Nigerian participants. The findings indicate that pauses function as salient paralinguistic cues that index cognitive processing, hesitation, politeness strategies, and relational stance. In Gricean terms, pauses often generate implicatures
Nwakaire Esther Nkechi, Ozor Gloria Nwando and David-Ojukwu Ifeyinwa
trends are cautiously interpreted as culturally influenced discursive patterns rather than innate differences in cognition between men and women. The study recommends gender-sensitive reporting guidelines and advocates replication with
Andrew Ikpomwosa Egbah and Bridget Dahunsi Okunrobo
CENCOS). Adopting a sociopragmatic orientation, the study uses Teun A. van Dijk’s socio-cognitive model of discourse and applies the ideological square as its principal analytical construct. Purposive total
Mohammed Sani Ya’u
gani (30.2%), ji (20.4%), and hear (10.4%). The clearest cross-linguistic contrast is that cognition is expressed through vision in the English corpus and through hearing in the Hausa corpus
Chiagozie Eburuaja
analyses purposively selected thirty-five excerpts from the novel using van Dijk’s socio-cognitive approach to Critical Discourse Studies. The findings show that identity is discursively constructed through self