Card Journal Language and ideology of political interactions
ABSTRACT ABSTRACT Several issues have shaped political discourse in Nigeria since her independence. Speeches read from scripts and other texts as well as various media forums have been major sources of data. Political interactions, dealing with spontaneous discourse/speech events have hardly been subject of discourse. Recently one of the platforms that transverse the Nigerian political sphere is the National Good Governance Tour (NGGT) of Nigeria; this study therefore, explores languag...
Political-discourse Interactions and Sustainable Peace in Nigeria
Abstract Political-discourse interactions between government officials and citizen are increasingly becoming common discourse events in Nigeria. There is seemingly nothing unfamiliar about political discourse events, but what needs clarification is the extent to which political discourse interactions foster and or enhance sustainable peace. This study, however, investigated the political discourse events of ‘The Ministerial Platforms’ and ‘National Good Governance Tours’ of Ni...
Contextualization and Meaning in Public - Sphere Discourses of Government Ministers- Citizen Interactions in Nigeria
Abstract Public sphere discourses of government ministers-citizen interactions are common political discourse events in Nigeria. There is seemingly nothing unfamiliar about political discourses, but what needs clarification is the place of context and contextualization in encoding and decoding intentions/meanings, especially in public sphere discourses of government ministers citizen interactions in Nigeria. Aspects of Presupposition in Jacob Mey’s Pragmatics that deal with context wa...
Verbal and Visual Interface in Select Nigerian Pop Music Videos
Abstract Pop music is one of the popular genres of music with much rhythm and harmony and its emphasis on romantic love songs is not news. What needs clarification is the level of the interface in terms of meaning-making between the verbal and visual aspects of pop music videos. This study thus investigates the visual-verbal interface in some Nigerian pop music videos to determine the extent to which both visual and verbal modes encode and enhance meanings in the music. Three famous Nig...
Textual Construction of Women In select Nigerian Pop Music Videos: Acritical Discourse Approach
Abstract Identity construction is an aspect of language formation and or representation. Extant literatures abound on identity construction in advertisements, political and computer mediated discourses, which have variously identified forms and nature of identity creations of groups. These studies however have not adequately accounted for identity creation of women in Nigerian music videos. Hence, this study investigates the way women are represented and constructed in selected Nigerian pop m...
Verbal And Visual Interface in Select Nigerian Pop Music
Abstract That pop music is one of the popular genres of music with much rhythm and harmony and its emphasis on romantic love songs is not news. What needs clarification is the level of interface in terms of meaning making between the verbal and visual aspects of pop music videos. This study thus investigates visual-verbal interface in select Nigerian pop music videos in order to determine the extent to which both visual and verbal modes encode and enhance meanings in the music. Three popular...
Contextualization and Meaning in Public-Sphere Discourses of Government Ministers- Citizen Interactions in Nigeria
Abstract Public sphere discourses of government ministers-citizen interactions are common political discourse events in Nigeria. There is seemingly nothing unfamiliar about political discourses, but what needs clarification is the place of context and contextualization in encoding and decoding intentions/meanings, especially in public sphere discourses of government ministers-citizen interactions in Nigeria. Aspects of Presupposition in Jacob Mey’s Pragmatics that deal with context was adop...
Language and ideology of political interactions in Nigeria's National Good Governance Tour (NGGT)
ABSTRACT Several issues have shaped political discourse in Nigeria since her independence. Speeches read from scripts and other texts as well as various media forums have been major sources of data. Political interactions, dealing with spontaneous discourse/speech events have hardly been subject of discourse. Recently one of the platforms that transverse the Nigerian political sphere is the National Good Governance Tour (NGGT) of Nigeria; this study therefore, explores language use in the tou...
Discourse Strategies and Public Assessment of Persuasion in Government Ministers-Audience Political Interactions in Nigeria
ABSTRACT Official interactions between government ministers and the public are common political discourse events in democratic Nigeria. Previous studies on political discourse have examined language forms such as metaphor, which function as persuasive devices in ceremonial speeches, campaigns, manifestos and parliamentary debates, without adequate attention paid to the persuasiveness of discourse strategies in government minister-public interactions. This study, therefore, examined discursiv...