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Christian Onah and Emmanuel Jibb Adams
Purple Hibiscus to examine how the linguistic choices of both authors construct and communicate ideologies of gender and power. Rather than accepting the conventional assumption that both novels simply reproduce … feminist ideology of male domination and female subjugation, the study sets out to identify the authors’ more complex visions of the female gender, to demonstrate how specific linguistic choices function
Alawode, Liasu Adebamiji Akinkunmi
gender relations are conceptualised, while Feminist Translation Theory provides a basis for examining the ideological implications of alternative English representations. The findings indicate that translation is not simply a neutral … imagery, while leaving culturally embedded assumptions insufficiently accessible; explicitation may improve comprehension while increasing ideological visibility; paraphrase may clarify pragmatic meaning while reducing metaphorical density; and contextual glossing may provide
Chidi Nwankwo, Ijeoma Uchenna-Okoye and Chuka Ononye
conflict discourse. This paper investigates how stylistic forms are utilised by Nigerian media for ideological mediation while conveying information on the conflict news. Forty reports published between … with insights from critical stylistics and aspects of the functional approach to textual analysis. Ideological mediation is dominated by two media practices observed in the data, namely, the representation
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
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 … similar discursive strategies for different ends. The study contributes a micro-linguistic account of ideological representation to research on Nigeria's digital political sphere, and argues that understanding contemporary Nigerian
Emmanuel Ogbonna Okoro
This study examines discursive representation of social actors and ideologies in the judgement on Nnamdi Kanu by the Federal High Court of Nigeria in 2025. The 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). The analysis reveals that
Chidi Nwankwo, Justus Chidi Ugwu and Chuka Ononye
stylistic tools in exploring the contexts of participants’ engagement in the discourse, and the ideology and stylistics of media reporting; but little is known about how media framing is employed … representing participants. The paper examines the discursive frames, linguistic forms, and ideologies that mark the Nigerian media’s representation of the major participants engaged in the conflict. The Federal Government
Arilesere R. Mustapha and Funke J. Oni
general election between 2015 and 2023 with a view to identifying the linguistic and ideological strategies deployed in the manifestoes. The study adopted qualitative research design and the data were … thorough understanding of linguistic representation expressed in the data analysed as well as their ideological import. Findings of the study reveal that the five opposition party presidential candidates employ lamentations
AYODABO, Joel Olatunde, AYINUOLA, Ojo Akinleye and OLANIREGUN, Adebola Oladayo
gaze, manage relationships among elements, and create coherent communicative wholes. These systems also encode ideological meanings, presenting technology as a solution and fintech services as desirable tools in users' everyday
Chidiebere Chukwuemeka Eze and Thomas-Michael Emeka Chukwumezie
Titles often provide condensed representations of the thematic and ideological concerns of literary works. In postcolonial fiction, ordinary words, objects, colours and structures can acquire metaphorical meanings that illuminate colonial … structures of the selected titles and relates them to the colonial, social, cultural and ideological concerns represented in the novels. The study concludes that the titles function not merely