Discursive strategies in newspaper campaign advertisements for Nigeria's 2011 elections  

Oleh:

Ademilokun, Mohammed ; Taiwo, Rotimi

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Discourse and Communication ( Full Text) vol. 7 no. 4 (Nov. 2013), page 435.
Topik: Advertising; critical discourse analysis; election; metaphor; newspaper; Nigeria; party symbols; political campaign; political discourse; political marketing; politics; power; strategies
Fulltext: DISCOURSE & COMMUNICATION-2013-Ademilokun-435-55.pdf (786.64KB)

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This article discusses the discursive strategies used in some newspaper campaign advertisements for Nigeria’s 2011 elections with a view to unveiling the socio-political motifs and messages of the adverts. Data for the study comprised 60 full-page newspaper election campaign adverts of the two strongest political parties in the country: the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) and Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN) published between February and April 2011, a period that can be referred to as the peak period of electioneering campaigns for the 2011 elections in Nigeria. The data gathered were analysed using the analytical tools of critical discourse analysis, with emphasis on Fairclough’s discourse as a social practice approach to the theory. Findings reveal that the text producers employed discursive strategies such as the metaphorization of party symbols, the use of deictic pronouns for inclusion and exclusion, deployment of rhetorical questions for persuasion, identification with the youth culture, employment of historical allusions, giving appeal to good luck, and negative other representation. In addition, the packaging of the information, graphological foregrounding, imagery, repetition and lexical choice reveal the intent of the campaign advertiser to persuade, appeal to sentiments, legitimize and delegitimize their positions in the discourse.

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