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Chidi Nwankwo, Ijeoma Uchenna-Okoye and Chuka Ononye
Media studies on Niger Delta (Henceforth, ND) conflicts have observed a link between the way information on the conflict is presented and the impression created on the participants … conflict discourse. This paper investigates how stylistic forms are utilised by Nigerian media for ideological mediation while conveying information on the conflict news. Forty reports published between
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 … that mark the Nigerian media’s representation of the major participants engaged in the conflict. The Federal Government (FGN) group (including its Joint Task Force) and the ND militia group
Fredrick Friday John and Nobuhle Ndimande-Hlongwa
Nigerian political elites engage in bitter communicative exchanges and conflict-related banter that result in impoliteness. This study investigated interactional banter among sociopolitical actors to identify the triggers and discourse … features of impoliteness. A qualitative design was used. Six online conflict-related video posts involving four sociopolitical agents were purposively selected and downloaded from YouTube, where they were posted
Onyinyechi Anyalenkeya
groups. These groups, however, do not always share the same ideologies or beliefs; hence conflicts are bound to occur. Humankind’s attempts at conflict resolution have been known to take … turns more precipitous than the conflict they were trying to resolve: more battles, destruction of property and the loss of even more lives. The conflicts in J. P. Clark
Kingsley O. Ugwuanyi and Onyemuche A. Ejesu
Onesimus Azunwanna and Comfort Adeleke-Adeniji
twenty-first century has witnessed several geopolitical conflicts characterised by extensive media coverage and strategic political communication. Yet scholarly attention focuses on collective memory and its role in shaping national … rhetoric, serving as a powerful mechanism for negotiating identity, memory, power, and legitimacy within conflict situations
Nkechinyere Nwaegbe, Chidi Nwankwo and Chuka Ononye
Generally, linguistic scholarship on Christian sermons has used discourse-analytic and pragmatic
Vivien Bello-Osagie
Shadow King, Maaza Mengiste presents war as more than a conflict between human beings. Set against Italy's 1935 invasion of Ethiopia, the novel represents land, weather, rivers, stones, plants … clauses were purposively selected from passages where environmental entities interact with human characters during conflict, survival, or resistance, ensuring coverage across process types and environmental categories. The analysis shows that
Vivien Bello-Osagie
Abstract In The Shadow King, Maaza Mengiste presents war as more than a conflict between human beings. Set against Italy's 1935 invasion of Ethiopia, the novel represents land, weather … clauses were purposively selected from passages where environmental entities interact with human characters during conflict, survival, or resistance, ensuring coverage across process types and environmental categories. The analysis shows that
Thomas M. Abah
recent times, the conflict between herders and farmers in Nigeria has escalated, with an increased threat to national peace and security. In a bid to arrest the fast-deteriorating situation