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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 … represented in court becomes very crucial. This linguistic tool is referred to as ‘discursive lexicalisation’. This study adopts Fairclough’s Dialectical-Relational Approach to Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA) and uses
Adenike Opeyemi OMOLAOYE
explored speech 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 … Argumentation is realised through euphemistic and metaphorical expressions that justify marital breakdown. Overall, lexicalisation functions as a strategic resource for constructing blame, credibility, and legitimacy within Nigeria's adversarial divorce
Godwin Chibueze Didigwu, Matthew Chinenye NNuta and Bernice Nonye Ogbochie
Socio-Cognitive Theory and Martin and White’s Appraisal Theory. Findings reveal that lexicalisation, presupposition, modality, metaphor, pronouns, ideological polarisation and blame attribution construct competing representations of electoral credibility
Arilesere R. Mustapha and Funke J. Oni
crises in the country. Activated through transitivity structures embedded in the excerpts, lamentation is lexicalised by emotion driven expressions that evoke mental models of widespread fear, hopelessness, sorrow, joblessness, economic