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1. Linguistic Analysis and Discourse StudiesVolume 25, Issue 2 (September 2025)pp. 198–215PDF of Securitizing Public Vigilance: A Pragmatic and Critical Discourse Analysis of the Nigeria Police Force’s Press Release on Internal Security and Violent Crimes

   Securitizing Public Vigilance: A Pragmatic and Critical Discourse Analysis of the Nigeria Police Force’s Press Release on Internal Security and Violent Crimes

   Taiwo, Joshua AJENIFARI

   were examined. Fairclough’s (1992) three-dimensional Critical Discourse Analysis model and securitization theory (Balzacq, 2005; Buzan et al., 1998) provide the two formal frameworks. Pragmatic speech-act functions … that the press release does more than report events: it legitimates intensified policing and securitizes public vigilance as a civic responsibility within Nigeria’s internal security discourse