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Bernice N. Ogbochie, Onyedikachi A. Okodo, Goodluck C. Kadiri and Ogechi C. Unachukwu
Amaka G. Nwuche, Kelvin S. Onyeagwaram and and Ogechi C. Unachukwu
reference (REF), inference (INF), metaphor (MPH), and metapragmatic joker. This study contributes to political discourse studies by making explicit the linguistic mechanisms through which political actors achieve their goals
Emmanuel Ogbonna Okoro
Political discourse is used to convey ideology, power, and political identity through discursive strategies. Therefore, this study examined how de/legitimating strategies construct political identity and credibility in Mr Peter
Onyedikachi A. Okodo and Godwin Chibueze Didigwu
Political discourse is inherently competitive, with politicians deploying confrontational language to negotiate power, construct identities, and shape public perception. This study examines strategic impoliteness as a persuasive resource in Nyesom … Wike's political discourse, arguing that his confrontational rhetoric extends beyond mere violations of politeness norms. The data comprise five politically significant discourse events involving Wike, purposively sampled from Nigerian
Chidi Nwankwo, Clementina Okoye and Chuka Ononye
Pre-election activities and campaign speeches by Nigerian politicians have been well
Chidi Nwankwo, Kenneth Ahaiwe and Chuka Ononye
Online political discourse following high-stakes presidential elections in deeply polarised post-colonial democracies often degenerates into hyper-partisanship and severe incivility, yet the underlying socio-cognitive and sociolinguistic mechanisms … Crucially, the study’s primary contribution to knowledge demonstrates that impoliteness in computer-mediated political discourse extends far beyond routine conversational friction or interpersonal incivility. Rather, it functions
Arilesere R. Mustapha and Funke J. Oni
Extant studies on political discourse have examined the speeches of presidents, governors, political office holders, etc. Specifically, studies on political manifestoes have concentrated on the analysis of modals, lexical verbs
Chinaguh, Emmanuel C.
functions as religious othering and how its contestation reconfigures identity and belonging in Nigerian political discourse. Guided mainly by van Dijk’s socio-cognitive approach to Critical Discourse Analysis
Abiola Mary Oladipo, Christian Chidubem Ugwu and Martha Omoseye Adurota
accounts for the contextual factors underlying impoliteness. It explores how impoliteness functions in political discourse and party-related communication on social media. The study adopts Culpeper’s (1996) five impoliteness