A corpus-based critical discourse analysis of pre-2019 general elections reports in selected Nigerian newspapers
Joint Authors
Owusu, Edward
Agbeleoba, Samuel Oyeyemi
Yeboah, Asuamah Adade
Source
International Journal of Linguistics, Literature and Translation
Issue
Vol. 3, Issue 9 (30 Sep. 2020), pp.142-147, 6 p.
Publisher
Al-Kindi Center for Research and Development
Publication Date
2020-09-30
Country of Publication
United Kingdom
No. of Pages
6
Main Subjects
English Language and Literature
Abstract EN
Generally, language experts believe that there are inherent ideologies in language use.
The aspect of discourse study that discloses such ideologies is known as Critical Discourse Study (CDA).
This paper seeks to exhume the various inherent ideologies that presuppose selected news reports on the Nigeria’s 2019 General Elections in Nigerian newspapers.
This study is, however, corpus-based.
Scholars have established that discourse is a kind of constructively conditioned public exercise.
They believe that power relations exist at different levels of daily social interaction; revealing superiority or inferiority of interlocutors involved.
News reports relating to the General Elections were electronically collated from the various newspaper platforms for a sizable language corpus.
The name Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) was selected and analysed purposively with the aid of Digital Humanities (DH) tool to observe the frequency of the acronym INEC and the textual context in which it occurs in five newspapers’ reports about the electoral body via the authority it gives; the warning it issues, and the appeal it makes to the stakeholders.
The paper finds out that the negative perceptions of many observers about the elections have actually been predicted by the various reports in the newspapers, prior to the elections.
The paper concludes that reporters of news items do not account for issues concerning electoral body with the same constructive and destructive dispositions; and this gives room for subjectivity and prejudice.
American Psychological Association (APA)
Agbeleoba, Samuel Oyeyemi& Owusu, Edward& Yeboah, Asuamah Adade. 2020. A corpus-based critical discourse analysis of pre-2019 general elections reports in selected Nigerian newspapers. International Journal of Linguistics, Literature and Translation،Vol. 3, no. 9, pp.142-147.
https://search.emarefa.net/detail/BIM-1498077
Modern Language Association (MLA)
Agbeleoba, Samuel Oyeyemi…[et al.]. A corpus-based critical discourse analysis of pre-2019 general elections reports in selected Nigerian newspapers. International Journal of Linguistics, Literature and Translation Vol. 3, no. 9 (2020), pp.142-147.
https://search.emarefa.net/detail/BIM-1498077
American Medical Association (AMA)
Agbeleoba, Samuel Oyeyemi& Owusu, Edward& Yeboah, Asuamah Adade. A corpus-based critical discourse analysis of pre-2019 general elections reports in selected Nigerian newspapers. International Journal of Linguistics, Literature and Translation. 2020. Vol. 3, no. 9, pp.142-147.
https://search.emarefa.net/detail/BIM-1498077
Data Type
Journal Articles
Language
English
Notes
Includes bibliographical references : p. 147
Record ID
BIM-1498077