Language in the News—Mediating Sociopolitical Crises in Nigeria

Focusing on news stories in the Nigerian press from 1996 to 2002--years in which the military dictatorship was at its height and a democratic government began--this study uses pragmatics and critical discourse analysis to investigate the ideological functions of language use. The analysis also concerns why and in whose interests particular linguistics constructions were used. Chiluwa is a lecturer in applied linguistics at Covenant U., Nigeria. Annotation c2013 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Innocent Chiluwa is a Senior Lecturer in Applied Linguistics in the Department of Languages, Covenant University, Ota (Nigeria). He has published scholarly articles in leading international journals in this field, e.g. Discourse & Society, Discourse Studies, Discourse & Communication, Journal of Multicultural Discourses, Journal of Language of Politics etc. He is the author of Labeling and Ideology in the Press (Peter Lang) and co-editor of Computer-Mediated Discourse in Africa (Nova Science).