'A threat to national unity, an emancipator': discourse construction of the Yoruba nation secessionist agitation in selected Nigerian digital communities.
The recently resurged Yoruba Nation (YN, henceforth) agitation joins some socio-political movements, social protests, and resistance group discourse in Nigeria that continue to gain traction in (critical) discourse studies. Guided by the theoretical paradigms of van Leeuwen's representational strate...
| Publicado en: | Critical Discourse Studies Vol. 21; no. 6; pp. 647 - 664 |
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