Publications

Publication details [#49209]

Daramola, Adeyemi. 2008. A child of necessity: An analysis of political discourse in Nigeria. Pragmatics 18 (3) : 355–380.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

developing nation | metaphor | necessity | political discussion

Language as a subject

Languages, Nigerian

Place, Publisher

International Pragmatics Association

Journal DOI

10.1075/prag

Annotation

This functional-semiotic analysis (of Nigerian national newspaper articles) explores aspects of the linguistic characteristics of political discourses brought about by various problematic political, economic and socio-cultural events within the unstable Nigerian political climate of the early 1990's.