Discourse study of linguistic errors in Vanguard online readers’ comments on the alleged 2012 fuel subsidy committee bribery scandal
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 21867322 |
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| Authors | Chibuzor Franklin Akpati (Glorious Vision University), Janet Abimbola Adegboye (Glorious Vision University) |
| Year | 2022 |
| Volume | 8 |
| Issue | 1-2 |
| Pages | 332-347 |
| Publication date | 2022-03-11 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | EJOTMAS Ekpoma Journal of Theatre and Media Arts (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 2006-1838 • E-ISSN: 2449-1179 |
| Publisher | African Journals Online (AJOL) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.4314/ejotmas.v8i1-2.18 |
| OpenAlex | W4220667679 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 4 |
The study identifies common linguistic errors among online commenters. It analyses and interprets the identified errors. It relates the interpreted errors to the socio political context of Nigeria. This was done with a view to investigating how these discussed errors were used by online commenters on the alleged national assembly fuel subsidy committee bribery scandal. The study employed both primary and secondary sources of data. The primary source includes 20 purposively selected readers’ comments on news reports from the Vanguard online. The secondary source includes books, journal articles and the Internet. Data were analysed using Halliday’s Systemic Functional Grammar approach. The study discovers that errors such as faulty sentence constructions, wrong use of, punctuation marks and spellings were used by commenters
Grammar · League · Linguistics · Political science · Politics · Punctuation · Sentence · Spelling · Subsidy · The Internet · Vanguard · World Wide Web · Computer Science · Digital Communication and Language · Discourse Analysis in Language Studies · History · Language, Metaphor, and Cognition · Law
| Highly cited | No |
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