Mapping Patterns of Ideologies in Nigeria’s Socio-political Discourse: Evidence from Herdsmen Discourse

IF 0.5 3区文学 0 LANGUAGE & LINGUISTICS

Language Matters Pub Date : 2023-01-02 DOI:10.1080/10228195.2023.2184416

Mayowa Akinlotan

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Abstract

Abstract 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.

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尼日利亚社会政治话语中意识形态的映射模式——来自牧民话语的证据

摘要尼日利亚的话语通过多维界面关注核心文化意识形态。本研究通过绘制以牧民危机为中心的危机驱动的政治话语中的意识形态来测试这种界面。本文认为，某些意识形态是尼日利亚政治话语的特征，并构成其广泛话语的有意义单元。根据757条报道牧民危机的新闻头条，该研究进一步证明，尼日利亚的危机话语往往围绕着某些流行的意识形态展开，即宗教分歧、种族、国家地位、权力滥用和公民不信任，这些意识形态可以进一步映射到该国的社会政治格局中。本文认为，由于尼日利亚危机驱动的话语是其构建意识形态的一个组成部分，因此这种话语最好从这种潜在的意识形态架构中解构出来。

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期刊介绍： The purpose of Language Matters is to provide a journal of international standing with a unique African flavour focusing on multilingualism in Africa. Although the journal contributes to the language debate on all African languages, sub-Saharan Africa and issues related to multilingualism in the southern African context are the journal’s specific domains. The journal seeks to promote the dissemination of ideas, points of view, teaching strategies and research on different aspects of African languages, providing a forum for discussion on the whole spectrum of language usage and debate in Africa. The journal endorses a multidisciplinary approach to the study of language and welcomes contributions not only from sociolinguists, psycholinguists and the like, but also from educationalists, language practitioners, computer analysts, engineers or scholars with a genuine interest in and contribution to the study of language. All contributions are critically reviewed by at least two referees. Although the general focus remains on multilingualism and related issues, one of the three issues of Language Matters published each year is a special thematic edition on Language Politics in Africa. These special issues embrace a wide spectrum of language matters of current relevance in Southern Africa.