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Anthony Elisha Anowu and Tunde Ope-Davies
This paper examines the use of lexicalisation in election petition tribunals in Nigeria. In adversarial courtroom settings, opposing legal teams often compete for the attention of judges and the jury … episodes drawn from the witness examination phase of the 2007 Osun State Governorship Election Petition Tribunal proceedings. The findings reveal that lexical choices with experiential and expressive values were instrumental