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1. Linguistic Analysis and Discourse StudiesVolume 25, Issue 1 (September 2025)pp. 318–342PDF of Multimodal Sacralisation of Everyday Nigerian Experience in Pentecostal Poster Discourse

   Multimodal Sacralisation of Everyday Nigerian Experience in Pentecostal Poster Discourse

   Dilichukwu Lilian Efobi and Toyin Deborah Olatunji

   This study examines how selected Nigerian Pentecostal posters recontextualise everyday language and experience as religiously meaningful problems and anticipated sites of divine intervention. It applies qualitative multimodal discourse analysis … twenty posters selected for this study. Multimodal Social Semiotics provides the principal framework, while recontextualisation serves as a supporting analytical concept. Poster-by-poster analysis shows that Nigerian Pidgin, colloquial

2. Linguistic Analysis and Discourse StudiesVolume 25, Issue 2 (September 2025)pp. 153–175PDF of "We Are All Infidels": Discursive De-Othering And The Politics Of Religious Identity In Nigeria

   "We Are All Infidels": Discursive De-Othering And The Politics Of Religious Identity In Nigeria

   Chinaguh, Emmanuel C.

   hierarchy of membership categories, but its meaning and referential scope were subsequently contested through recontextualisation, semantic shift, perspectivisation, evaluative transformation and reappropriation. The analysis further demonstrates that de-othering does

3. Linguistic Analysis and Discourse StudiesVolume 23, Issue 2 (September 2023)pp. 80–93PDF of Foregrounded Margin in Chinelo Okparanta’s Under the Udala Trees

   Foregrounded Margin in Chinelo Okparanta’s Under the Udala Trees

   Henrietta Ifeoma Okafor and Chidiebere Chukwuemeka Eze

   conscious efforts by some writers like Okparanta to give it focus. We intend to recontextualise ideas from American critic hooks’ Feminist Theory: From Margin to Centre, in our analysis