What is it about?
The book Language in the News: Mediating Sociopolitical Crises in Nigeria, follows the research interests of the scholar and provides a discourse-pragmatic study of media language in news headlines, leads, and overlines.
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Why is it important?
The object of research are the headlines, overlines and leads in three Nigerian “radical” newsmagazines – Newswatch, Tell, TheNews which were specifically chosen for their style and relentless critique of the ruling class, which is also intriguing and interest provoking.
Perspectives
the study is a very interesting one and would appeal to African and non-African readers interested in ideology in the press and the ways this ideology has been realized. In addition, the book could be considered a handbook for future analysists on the way a CDA of newspaper texts could be conducted.
Assoc. Prof. Dr. Desislava S Cheshmedzhieva-Stoycheva
University if Shumen
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This page is a summary of: Chiluwa, Innocent. 2012. Language in the News: Mediating Sociopolitical Crises in Nigeria, Journal of Language and Politics, November 2016, John Benjamins,
DOI: 10.1075/jlp.15.5.12che.
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