This article examines Facebook posts in Botswana to determine how government public
relations (PR) practitioners used language to help protect the reputation of two state-owned …

Abstract Media reports on Niger Delta (Henceforth, ND) conflicts have reflected a
relationship between lexico-stylistic choices and media ideologies. The existing media …

This study examined the Yoruba nation secessionist agitation from the viewpoint of stance
and ideology in its discursive engagement on three popular Nigerian virtual communities …

Studies on Niger Delta (ND) poetry have applied stylistic and discourse analyses in
exploring the metaphorical elements of the deplorable ecological condition of the region, but …

Nigeria's heavy reliance on oil for national survival, the frequency of pipeline vandalism and
the attendant losses make the subject of vandalism attractive to newspapers. Reports on this …

This article examines the frames built in Nigerian and South African newspaper headlines
and the linguistic strategies by which they are characterised. Sixty headlines (thirty from …

Studies on farmer-herder conflict news reports have explored issues like the subjective
framing of discourse participants and rhetorical strategies used by conflict victims, but have …

Media studies on Niger Delta (ND) conflict discourse have largely utilized stylistic,
pragmatic, and critical discourse analytical tools in exploring media representation of news …

The BBNaija show is a social experiment of conflict of interests that extends beyond the Big
Brother House to the virtual fans of the housemates. This study, using corpus-assisted …

The concept of ideology in texts presupposes that language use is not value neutral.
Ideology in language use has engaged the attention of scholars such as Fairclough and van …