Invaders, Attackers and Destroyers: Trespassing-related Terms and Representations in Nigerian Newspaper Headlines

IF 0.3 0 LANGUAGE & LINGUISTICS
E. Igwebuike
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Discourses on herding have focussed on the "exact" representations of the social actions of itinerant herders who clash with farmers while grazing on supposed cattle routes. Media coverage on the herdsmen-farmers conflict has deployed ideologically laden terms to represent herding as trespassing on farmlands and herders as foreigners and trespassers. Using van Leeuwen's Representation of Social Actions and Actors model and Martin and White's Appraisal Framework, this paper examines how different trespassing-related terms (i.e. invade, attack and destroy) were deployed in the Nigerian newspaper headlines to represent herders and their activities with a view to discussing the kinds of representations that were constructed of the nomads through the texts. Findings revealed that using transactive role allocations, nominalization, descriptivation, identification, aggregation and attitudinal lexicalization, these social actors were evaluated negatively as intruders, raiders, and destroyers. The negative othering underscores the general perception and suspicious treatment of nomads in their host farming communities.
入侵者、攻击者和破坏者:尼日利亚报纸标题中的入侵相关术语和表述
关于放牧的讨论集中在流动牧民的社会行为的“确切”表现上,他们在所谓的养牛路线上放牧时与农民发生冲突。媒体对牧民与农民冲突的报道使用了带有意识形态色彩的术语,将放牧视为非法侵入农田,将牧民视为外国人和入侵者。运用van Leeuwen的社会行为表征和行动者模型以及Martin和White的评价框架,本文研究了尼日利亚报纸标题中如何使用不同的非法侵入相关术语(即入侵、攻击和破坏)来代表牧民及其活动,以期通过文本讨论游牧民族的表现形式。研究结果表明,使用交易性角色分配、名词化、描述、识别、聚合和态度词汇化,这些社会参与者被负面评价为入侵者、袭击者和破坏者。消极的他者化凸显了游牧民族在其所在农业社区的普遍看法和可疑待遇。
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