Event and Actors Representation in Selected Nigerian Daily Newspapers

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dc.contributor.authorAsiru, Hameed Tunde
dc.contributor.authorOgutu, Emily A.
dc.contributor.authorOrwenjo, Daniel Ochieng
dc.date.accessioned2022-03-18T09:36:05Z
dc.date.available2022-03-18T09:36:05Z
dc.date.issued2018-06-30
dc.descriptionA Research Article in the AFRICAN JOURNALS ONLINE (AJOL)en_US
dc.description.abstractThe 2011 Nigerian presidential election newspaper reports were not just to inform the public about the outcomes of the election. The representations in the newspaper reports were ideological and, by implication, judgmental. The main actors (presidential aspirants), were also represented differently. In this paper, we interrogate some linguistic tools that were used in the ideological presentation of the election and the main social actors. In other words, the paper examines whether the main social actors are included or excluded, genericised or specified; and the level of voice projection accorded to them. The study is anchored on Critical Discourse Analysis framework and it operationalises some aspects of van Leeuwen (2008) socio-semantic model and Hallidayan transitivity system in examining social actor differential representations and process types in the newspaper reports. These linguistic tools (exclusion, inclusion, individualization, assimilation, collectivization, functionalisation, appraisement and voice projection) are very pertinent because they serve as the very foundation on which further context analysis of the discourse could be based. The study observes that social actors representations and voice projection in the data do not only polarize the reportage but also lace it with bias. It also shows that the incumbent president was given more positive representation and voice projection than other aspirants.en_US
dc.identifier.citationAsiru, H. T., Ogutu, E. A., & Orwenjo, D. O. (2018). Event and actors representation in selected Nigerian daily newspapers. Ghana Journal of Linguistics, 7(1), 84-104.en_US
dc.identifier.issn2026-6596
dc.identifier.urihttp://ir-library.ku.ac.ke/handle/123456789/23228
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.publisherAJOLen_US
dc.subjectRepresentationen_US
dc.subjectSocial actorsen_US
dc.subjectCDAen_US
dc.titleEvent and Actors Representation in Selected Nigerian Daily Newspapersen_US
dc.typeArticleen_US
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