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1. Linguistic Analysis and Discourse StudiesVolume 25, Issue 1 (September 2025)pp. 445–466PDF of Emojis and Stickers as Multimodal Resources in Student Whatsapp Discourse: Functions, Meaning-Making and Identity

   Emojis and Stickers as Multimodal Resources in Student Whatsapp Discourse: Functions, Meaning-Making and Identity

   Jaafar Ahmad Wakili and Maryam Sani Babayo

   This study examines how emojis and stickers function as multimodal resources in the WhatsApp-mediated academic discourse of the National Association of Students of English and Literary Studies (NASELS), Federal … adopts a qualitative descriptive design to analyse 75 purposively selected chat threads containing 243 emojis and 126 stickers. The findings show that emojis and stickers perform affective, pragmatic, interpersonal, humorous

2. Linguistic Analysis and Discourse StudiesVolume 24, Issue 2 (September 2024)pp. 131–161PDF of The 'Balablu Bulaba' Campaign Gaffe and the Nigerian Digital Dissent: Perspectives from Culpeper’s Impoliteness Formulae

   The 'Balablu Bulaba' Campaign Gaffe and the Nigerian Digital Dissent: Perspectives from Culpeper’s Impoliteness Formulae

   Chidi Nwankwo, Clementina Okoye and Chuka Ononye

   these are deployed through lexical resources with derogatory comparisons, negative associations, and laughing emojis to ridicule BAT, exaggerate his incompetence, challenge his supporters, and allude to better presidential candidates. With