Matthew Alugbin
Biographic Data
| ID | 4052088 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Matthew Alugbin |
| GIVEN NAMES | Matthew |
| FAMILY NAME | Alugbin |
| SIGNATURE | ALUGBIN M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Ambrose Alli University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-2219-5155 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 4 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 6 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
“We Are All Migrants”
Fear and animosity towards asylum seekers and migrants have experienced a worldwide increase in recent decades, with xenophobia being the recent particular experience in South Africa. This study analyses how discursive strategies in Nigerian and South African newspaper reports ideologically frame people, actions, and events, displaying a biased portrayal influenced by prejudiced ideologies. Using Wodak’s discourse-historical approach to critical …
Contexts and Forms of Hate Speech in Nigeria's 2023 Presidential Election Discourse
Election periods in Nigeria often serve as crucial moments for the manifestation of hate speech. This study examines the contextual triggers and rhetorical strategies used in constructing hate speech during Nigeria's 2023 presidential election. Using van Dijk's sociocognitive approach to critical discourse analysis, it examines speeches and comments from political actors and their supporters, published in Punch , Daily Post and on X between Janua…
Narratives of Resistance
The #EndSARS hashtag, which started in 2017, was one of the tools used to share, on Twitter, experiences and advocacy on police brutality in Nigeria. Extant works have explored the use of social media for civic engagement, consciousness re-awakening, counter-narratives and societal disruption, amongst other uses. The present study focuses on how discursive strategies of resistance were deployed to create and sustain agitations using Twitter as a …
Metaphorical constructs and semiotic expressions in the BBC Yoruba Internet memes of English Premier League match results
This paper explores the deployment of metaphors in the BBC Yoruba-medium football results of the English Premier League, examining how cultural metaphorical choices shape meaning in online sport discourse. Through a discourse analysis of Yoruba-medium football results, the study reveals how metaphors drawn from Yoruba cultural milieu and everyday life are used to create vivid descriptions of game events, players, and teams. The study relies on La…
Pentecostal voices and discourse perspectives to LGBTQ+ narratives in Nigeria
The conformist and dissenting religious voices with various social classificatory paradigms on LGBTQ+ issues have further complicated the association between the West and others in sub-Saharan Africa. Religious leaders from the West and those of African extraction seem to already hold divergent opinions on the issue. This paper investigates Pentecostal voices and discourse perspectives of selected foremost pastors on LGBTQ+ narratives within the …
A Satirical Reading of Wole Soyinka’s A Play of Giants
Satire is the literary art of diminishing a subject by making it ridiculous and evoking towards its attitudes manner in which the follies and foibles or vices are unmasked by the satirist. The great modern age of satire was the neo-classic period when the satiric spirit was everywhere present and a return was made to formal verse satire. This paper examines how Soyinka has responded to the socio-political and economic situation in Africa by creat…
Metaphorical constructs and semiotic expressions in the BBC Yoruba Internet memes of English Premier League match results
This paper explores the deployment of metaphors in the BBC Yoruba-medium football results of the English Premier League, examining how cultural metaphorical choices shape meaning in online sport discourse. Through a discourse analysis of Yoruba-medium football results, the study reveals how metaphors drawn from Yoruba cultural milieu and everyday life are used to create vivid descriptions of game events, players, and teams. The study relies on La…
Pentecostal voices and discourse perspectives to LGBTQ+ narratives in Nigeria
The conformist and dissenting religious voices with various social classificatory paradigms on LGBTQ+ issues have further complicated the association between the West and others in sub-Saharan Africa. Religious leaders from the West and those of African extraction seem to already hold divergent opinions on the issue. This paper investigates Pentecostal voices and discourse perspectives of selected foremost pastors on LGBTQ+ narratives within the …
A Satirical Reading of Wole Soyinka’s A Play of Giants
Satire is the literary art of diminishing a subject by making it ridiculous and evoking towards its attitudes manner in which the follies and foibles or vices are unmasked by the satirist. The great modern age of satire was the neo-classic period when the satiric spirit was everywhere present and a return was made to formal verse satire. This paper examines how Soyinka has responded to the socio-political and economic situation in Africa by creat…
Narratives of Resistance
The #EndSARS hashtag, which started in 2017, was one of the tools used to share, on Twitter, experiences and advocacy on police brutality in Nigeria. Extant works have explored the use of social media for civic engagement, consciousness re-awakening, counter-narratives and societal disruption, amongst other uses. The present study focuses on how discursive strategies of resistance were deployed to create and sustain agitations using Twitter as a …
Metaphorical constructs and semiotic expressions in the BBC Yoruba Internet memes of English Premier League match results
This paper explores the deployment of metaphors in the BBC Yoruba-medium football results of the English Premier League, examining how cultural metaphorical choices shape meaning in online sport discourse. Through a discourse analysis of Yoruba-medium football results, the study reveals how metaphors drawn from Yoruba cultural milieu and everyday life are used to create vivid descriptions of game events, players, and teams. The study relies on La…
Pentecostal voices and discourse perspectives to LGBTQ+ narratives in Nigeria
The conformist and dissenting religious voices with various social classificatory paradigms on LGBTQ+ issues have further complicated the association between the West and others in sub-Saharan Africa. Religious leaders from the West and those of African extraction seem to already hold divergent opinions on the issue. This paper investigates Pentecostal voices and discourse perspectives of selected foremost pastors on LGBTQ+ narratives within the …
“We Are All Migrants”
Fear and animosity towards asylum seekers and migrants have experienced a worldwide increase in recent decades, with xenophobia being the recent particular experience in South Africa. This study analyses how discursive strategies in Nigerian and South African newspaper reports ideologically frame people, actions, and events, displaying a biased portrayal influenced by prejudiced ideologies. Using Wodak’s discourse-historical approach to critical …
Contexts and Forms of Hate Speech in Nigeria's 2023 Presidential Election Discourse
Election periods in Nigeria often serve as crucial moments for the manifestation of hate speech. This study examines the contextual triggers and rhetorical strategies used in constructing hate speech during Nigeria's 2023 presidential election. Using van Dijk's sociocognitive approach to critical discourse analysis, it examines speeches and comments from political actors and their supporters, published in Punch , Daily Post and on X between Janua…
Political science (5 works) · Sociology (5 works) · Art (4 works) · Discourse Analysis in Language Studies (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Linguistics (3 works) · Literature (3 works) · Philosophy (3 works) · Politics (3 works) · Gender Studies (2 works)