Mapping Patterns of Ideologies in Nigeria’s Socio-political Discourse

Evidence from Herdsmen Discourse

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ID20406166
AuthorsMayowa Akinlotan (0000-0001-5142-7168, Catholic University of Eichstatt, Germany, corresponding author)
Year2023
Volume54
Issue1
Pages61-77
Publication date2023-01-02
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueLanguage Matters (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1022-8195 • E-ISSN: 1753-5395
PublisherInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/10228195.2023.2184416
OpenAlexW4361002453
LanguageEN
Citations received1
References cited8

Discourses in Nigeria are fixated on core cultural ideologies through a multidimensional interface. The present study tests this interface by mapping out ideologies in crisis-driven political discourse centred on the herdsmen crisis. The paper argues that certain ideologies are characteristic of Nigerian political discourse and form the meaningful units of a wide range of its discourses. Drawing on 757 news headlines reporting the herdsmen crisis, the study further attests that crisis discourse in Nigeria is often patterned around certain prevalent ideologies, that is, religious divide, ethnicity, nationhood, power abuse, and citizen distrust, which can further be mapped onto the socio-political landscape of the country. The paper argues that since crisis-driven discourse in Nigeria is a construct of its building block ideologies, such discourse is best deconstructed from such underlying ideological architecture

Critical discourse analysis · Discourse analysis · Distrust · Ethnic group · Ideology · Linguistics · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Anthropology · Discourse Analysis in Language Studies · Gender Studies · Law

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