Dialogic contractions in online news discourse on violence against women in Nigeria

Bibliographic Data

ID3666732
AuthorsAdetutu Aragbuwa (0000-0002-0879-9027, Ekiti State University, corresponding author)
Year2020
Volume29
Issue2
Pages130-145
Publication date2020-02-17
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueJournal of Gender Studies (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0958-9236 • E-ISSN: 1465-3869
PublisherInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/09589236.2019.1584553
OpenAlexW2922933423
LanguageEN
Citations received2
References cited16

The paper analyses dialogic contractions in selected online news discourse on Violence against Women (henceforth, VAW) in Nigeria. The data comprise ten (10) purposively selected online news reports on various cases of VAW sourced from the news archives of Saharareporters.com; NigeriaFilms.com; Premium Times; and The Punch Online. The study selects only cases of VAW in Nigeria. The study performs a qualitative analysis of the online news discourses from White’s dialogic perspectives of intersubjective positioning. The analysis portrays diverse linguistic resources through which online news reporters and commenters firstly acknowledge, and then, restrict the scope of diogic alternatives in various communicative contexts in the reportage of cases of VAW in Nigeria; the dialogistic functions of the identified resources of dialogic contractions; and their rhetorical effects with respect to audience (dis)alignment. The paper, therefore, concludes that the dialogic theory enhances the understanding on how online audience and their assumed shared societal values/beliefs on VAW in the Nigerian context are taken as important and foregrounded in the creation of online news discourse on VAW

Art · Content analysis · Dialogic · Discourse analysis · Geography · Linguistics · Literature · Media studies · Pedagogy · Political science · Public relations · Rhetorical question · Social science · Sociology · Computer Science · Discourse Analysis in Language Studies · Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies · Social Media and Politics

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