话语建构在2013年尼日利亚ASUU-FGN劳资冲突中的作用

Samuel Alaba Akinwotu
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尼日利亚高等教育部门的表现多次受到劳资冲突的影响。虽然这些劳资纠纷在媒体上得到了广泛报道,但对这些冲突期间在媒体上占主导地位的话语进行的学术研究却很少。运用批判性话语分析(CDA)和概念隐喻(CM)框架,本研究考察了2013年大学学术人员工会(ASUU)和尼日利亚联邦政府(FGN)之间劳资冲突的话语特征。在争议期间,尼日利亚印刷和在线新闻来源发布的ASUU和FGN官员及其支持者的声明,以及媒体的社论声明和读者的在线评论,都被有意抽样。人们发现,劳资纠纷是用军国主义的术语来论述和隐喻的,就像两个敌人之间的冲突一样,参与了一场战斗或战争。研究还发现,ASUU和FGN都参与了与其军国主义话语结构一致的宣传话语,并且双方都传播了对对方动机和行为的贬低话语。调查还发现,某些读者在网上评论媒体对罢工的报道时,复制了主流话语的元素。
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The Role of Discursive Constructions in Nigeria’s ASUU-FGN Labour Conflict of 2013
The performance of Nigeria’s tertiary education sector has been undermined on numerous occasions by labour conflicts. While these labour disputes are widely reported in the media, there has been only minimal scholarly examination of the discourses that predominate in the media during these conflicts. Using the critical discourse analysis (CDA) and conceptual metaphor (CM) frameworks, this study examined the discursive features of a labour conflict in 2013 between the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) and the Federal Government of Nigeria (FGN). Statements by ASUU and FGN officials and their supporters, as published by Nigerian print and online news sources during the dispute, were purposively sampled, along with media outlets’ editorial statements and readers’ online comments. It was found that the labour dispute was discursively and metaphorically constructed in militaristic terms, as a conflict between two enemies engaged in a kind of battle or war. It was also found that both ASUU and the FGN engaged in propagandistic discourses in line with their militaristic discursive constructions, and that the two sides propagated disparaging discourses in respect of each other’s motivations and behaviours. It was also found that certain readers reproduced elements of the prevailing discourses in their online comments on media coverage of the strike.
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