Helen Ufuoma Ugah
Biographic Data
| ID | 391102 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Helen Ufuoma Ugah |
| GIVEN NAMES | Helen Ufuoma |
| FAMILY NAME | Ugah |
| SIGNATURE | UGAH H U |
| AFFILIATIONS | Elizade University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-2295-6930 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 3 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 3 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
‘She is not a virgin so why refuse the lecturer sex?’: An appraisal of cyberspace discourse of sexual harassment in Nigerian tertiary institutions
This study argues that online discourse about female victims of sexual harassment contain stances and stereotypical assumptions that portray negative attitudes towards the victims. Using Martin and White’s Appraisal Theory aided by Lazar’s Feminist Critical Discourse Analysis, it analyses the attitudes and opinions of Nigerian online participants about the victims, and discusses the ideological perceptions about them in order to explicate the nat…
“We will not atikuloot our future!”: Nigerianness as stance-taking in online political discussion forums
This study argues that stance-taking, a discourse strategy in linguistics, serves the purpose of giving citizens voices to engage politicians on different social media platforms and taking them to task on their political agendas during electioneering campaigns. It aims to evince the extent to which Nigerians utilise Nigerianness – the domestication and acculturation of English language, to express their stances about the various socio-political r…
Reading Dina Ligaga's Women, Visibility and Morality in Kenyan Popular Media From Nigeria
Reading Dina Ligaga's Women, Visibility and Morality in Kenyan Popular Media From Nigeria
“We will not atikuloot our future!”: Nigerianness as stance-taking in online political discussion forums
This study argues that stance-taking, a discourse strategy in linguistics, serves the purpose of giving citizens voices to engage politicians on different social media platforms and taking them to task on their political agendas during electioneering campaigns. It aims to evince the extent to which Nigerians utilise Nigerianness – the domestication and acculturation of English language, to express their stances about the various socio-political r…
‘She is not a virgin so why refuse the lecturer sex?’: An appraisal of cyberspace discourse of sexual harassment in Nigerian tertiary institutions
This study argues that online discourse about female victims of sexual harassment contain stances and stereotypical assumptions that portray negative attitudes towards the victims. Using Martin and White’s Appraisal Theory aided by Lazar’s Feminist Critical Discourse Analysis, it analyses the attitudes and opinions of Nigerian online participants about the victims, and discusses the ideological perceptions about them in order to explicate the nat…
Political science (3 works) · Sociology (3 works) · Law (2 works) · Media studies (2 works) · Politics (2 works) · Criminology (1 works) · Critical discourse analysis (1 works) · Cyberspace (1 works) · Discourse Analysis in Language Studies (1 works) · Gender Studies (1 works)