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1. Linguistic Analysis and Discourse StudiesVolume 25, Issue 2 (September 2025)pp. 311–332PDF of A Corpus-Assisted Sociopragmatic Study of Access, Ideology, and the Making of "Educated" Speech in Nigerian English-Pidgin Discourse

   A Corpus-Assisted Sociopragmatic Study of Access, Ideology, and the Making of "Educated" Speech in Nigerian English-Pidgin Discourse

   Andrew Ikpomwosa Egbah and Bridget Dahunsi Okunrobo

   uses Teun A. van Dijk’s socio-cognitive model of discourse and applies the ideological square as its principal analytical construct. Purposive total-population sampling identified all eight non-graduate … relational status constructed through interaction. It demonstrates the value of van Dijk’s ideological square for analysing micro-interactional manifestations of status and power in Nigerian English- Pidgin discourse

2. Linguistic Analysis and Discourse StudiesVolume 25, Issue 2 (September 2025)pp. 45–69PDF of Discursive Representation of Social Actors in the 2025 Federal High Court Ruling on

   Discursive Representation of Social Actors in the 2025 Federal High Court Ruling on

   Emmanuel Ogbonna Okoro

   study employed qualitative research design and thematic/content analysis and Teo van Dijk’s Ideological Square (2006). Twenty (20) excerpts were purposively sampled from the primary document (the court ruling