Representation of Social Actors in Media Discourse on Biafra Self-Determination Agitation

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dc.contributor.authorAlade, Moyosore Omowonuola
dc.date.accessioned2022-07-29T14:07:17Z
dc.date.available2022-07-29T14:07:17Z
dc.date.issued2022
dc.description.abstractGiven the influence of the media on public discourse, this study analyses how social actors in the Biafra self-determination agitation discourse are represented in the Nigerian media. The data comprises articles downloaded from the online version of news reports of two Nigerian popular broadsheet newspapers – The Punch and The Guardian, between 2016 and 2017. The study is grounded in sociolinguistic-based Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA). It adopts Van Leuween’s conception of social actor representation as an analytical framework to investigate the inclusion and exclusion of social actors and the roles allocated to social actors in the Biafra agitation discourse. The study finds that Biafra self-determination groups, security operatives and the Nigerian government are included in the news reports as social actors. Those referred to as ‘attackers’, and ‘killers’ are backgrounded and suppressed in the representation of the Biafra agitation discourse. Also, social actors are assigned both active and passive roles.en_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://dspace.run.edu.ng:8080/jspui/handle/123456789/3540
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.publisherAIPGG Journal of Humanities and Peace Studies, Adeboye Institute for Peace and Good Governanceen_US
dc.subjectRepresentationen_US
dc.subjectCritical discourse analysisen_US
dc.subjectSocial actorsen_US
dc.subjectBiafra agitationen_US
dc.subjectIPOBen_US
dc.subjectMASSOBen_US
dc.titleRepresentation of Social Actors in Media Discourse on Biafra Self-Determination Agitationen_US
dc.typeArticleen_US
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