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Ayobami Adetoro AFOLABI and Paul Ayodele ONANUGA
present study is a corpus-assisted study of evidential stance in a specialised corpus of select Nigerian newspaper editorials: Punch, Tribune, The Guardian, This Day and Vanguard. The corpus … quantitatively analysed using AntConc 4.3.1 and qualitatively, following Hyland’s (2005) model of evidential stance, which categorises evidential stance into hedges and boosters. The results reveal that evidential stance
Nkechinyere Nwaegbe, Chidi Nwankwo and Chuka Ononye
assignment, and speech acting in the discourse. However, it has not accounted for how stance acts enhance the identities constructed in sermons. To fill this gap, Christian video sermons involving … pool, transcribed, and subjected to content analysis, incorporating insights from interactional identity construction and stance theories. The findings reveal six opposing identities constructed in the sermons: perpetrators versus victims
Olusegun J. Omoboye and Samuel. A. Akinwotu
medical consultations, online consultation is a growing area of research in medical discourse. Using Stance and Rapport Management theories, the research explores the discourse strategies and linguistic markers of affectivity
Ngozi Georginia Ugochukwu and Prisca O. Bob
function as salient paralinguistic cues that index cognitive processing, hesitation, politeness strategies, and relational stance. In Gricean terms, pauses often generate implicatures by signaling deviations from conversational expectations, particularly
Chidi Nwankwo, Clementina Okoye and Chuka Ononye
platform for opinion; however, they cause a great shift in the NOC’s political stance. For data, 150 online trail comments on the reports of BAT’s gaffe were purposively
Obiorah Ekwueme and John Uche Ngonadi
closed proof. It goes on to say that her second, more extreme stance - that chance reigns and nothing can be clearly predicted is a separate epistemology from her first