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Oyeleye, Lekan. 2013. Expression of ideologies in media accounts of the 2003 and 2007 general elections in Nigeria. Discourse & Society 24 (6) : 763–773.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

election manifesto | ideology | language use | newspaper report | polarity

Place, Publisher

SAGE Publications

Journal WWW

www.sagepub.co.uk/ejournals/

Annotation

This paper discusses how cover stories in two Nigerian news magazines, TELL and The News, convey the ideological pursuits of social actors in the Nigerian 2003 and 2007 general elections in a non-neutral way, using the polarization between the ideological ingroup and outgroup structures.