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1. Linguistic Analysis and Discourse StudiesVolume 25, Issue 2 (September 2025)pp. 153–175PDF of "We Are All Infidels": Discursive De-Othering And The Politics Of Religious Identity In Nigeria

   "We Are All Infidels": Discursive De-Othering And The Politics Of Religious Identity In Nigeria

   Chinaguh, Emmanuel C.

   comments and 80 Facebook comments. The analysis traced three interconnected processes: religious othering, discursive de-othering, and identity/belonging reconfiguration. Findings show that infidel initially constructed a religious Other that established … through recontextualisation, semantic shift, perspectivisation, evaluative transformation and reappropriation. The analysis further demonstrates that de-othering does not simply reverse othering; rather, it may weaken, redistribute or reorganise existing boundaries