A Critical Discourse Analytical Study Of The Manifesto Of NigeriaS All Progressives Congress (Apc)

📄 Project Abstract

This study examines the linguistic structures used for propagating specific ideologies through which discourses of the APCs manifesto construct ideological representations of political events and situations in Nigeria under the Peoples Democratic Partys government. The study was motivated by how the ideological differences in the text of the APC manifestos representation of Nigeria are coded in its vocabulary. To this end, the study pays closer attention to the means by which the grammatical forms of the APC manifestos discourse or language use code happenings or relationships in Nigeria, the people or things involved in those happenings or relationships, including their spatial or temporal circumstances, manner of occurrence, and so on. It deploys Faircloughs Dialectical Relational Approach to Critical Discourse Analysis to posit in its central argument that language use in the APCs manifesto facilitates the encoding of ideologies.Dialectical Relational Approach comes from the perspec...