Ebuka Elias Igwebuike
List of John Benjamins publications in which Ebuka Elias Igwebuike is involved.
2024 Self-promotion, ideology and power in the social media posts of Nigerian Female Political Leaders Political discourse analysis of female political leaders in the Global South, Nartey, Mark (ed.), pp. 67–90 | Article
This article examines how Nigerian female political leaders (NFPLs) exploit self-presentation strategies to formulate and promote social justice. Using insights from critical discourse analysis and Jones and Pittman’s (1982) self-presentation strategies, and with a data set from the verified… read more
2023 Verbal horror and slaughterhouse imagery in media representation of herdsmen violence Journal of Language Aggression and Conflict 11:1, pp. 25–47 | Article
Nigerian media reports on herdsmen’s violence present dehumanised images of a slaughterhouse in which farmers are represented as animals being slaughtered by herders. Using a critical discourse analysis and appraisal framework, with a focus on the systems of attitude and graduation, this paper… read more
2016 Owners vs. non-owners? A critical discourse analysis of print media representations of territorial ownership of the Bakassi Peninsula border Journal of Language Aggression and Conflict 4:2, pp. 255–273 | Article
This study investigated lexical labelling of people and their actions in terms of ownership and non-ownership of territories by the Nigerian and Cameroonian newspaper reports on the Bakassi Peninsula border conflict, with a view to uncovering ideologies underlying the representations. Van Dijk’s… read more