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Adenike Opeyemi OMOLAOYE
acts, transitivity, and pragmatic acts. Little attention has been paid to the lexicalisation of discursive strategies in divorce proceedings. This study therefore examines how lexical choices realise discursive strategies … word corpus and seventeen excerpts were generated in total. Findings reveal four discursive strategies: referential nomination which employs legal-institutional and labels to position litigants as procedural subjects; Intensification uses
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 … online, and reads them against each other to show how competing groups mobilise similar discursive strategies for different ends. The study contributes a micro-linguistic account of ideological representation
Arilesere R. Mustapha and Funke J. Oni
analysis of modals, lexical verbs, transitivity, among others. However, the use of lamentation as discursive strategy to construct insecurity and economic crises has gained less scholarly attention. Therefore, this paper … study reveal that the five opposition party presidential candidates employ lamentations as discursive strategy to expose leadership weaknesses and governance failure of the ruling party, citing poor responses to security
Emmanuel Ogbonna Okoro
Political discourse is used to convey ideology, power, and political identity through discursive strategies. Therefore, this study examined how de/legitimating strategies construct political identity and credibility in Mr Peter … corrupt, incompetent, and visionless politicians. The study concludes that these de/legitimation discursive strategies collectively boosted Obi’s political identity and credibility ahead of the 2023 general elections in Nigeria
Godwin Chibueze Didigwu, Matthew Chinenye NNuta and Bernice Nonye Ogbochie
legitimacy are discursively constructed in emerging pre-election discourse. It investigates the linguistic and discursive strategies used to construct public trust and electoral legitimacy and analyses how Appraisal resources contribute