TO GET THE COMPLETE JOURNAL/THESIS FOR TOPIC BELOW,
CALL: 08168759420, 08068231953
WHATSAPP: 08137701720
LANGUAGE, TERRORISM AND MEDIA: A STUDY OF THE REPRESENTATION OF BOKO HARAM IN CAMEROONIAN AND NIGERIAN NEWSPAPERS BETWEEN 2014 AND 2015
Abstract: This paper is a study of the representation of Boko Haram phenomenon in Cameroonian and Nigerian newspapers between 2014 and 2015. The main problem of this work is to examine the language and some discursive strategies used by the written press and online media to represent Boko Haram phenomenon in Cameroonian and Nigerian media, and see whether it contributes to the construction or deconstruction of the phenomenon. The data for this work are collected on Eden Newspaper and the Guardian Post in Cameroon; the Cable Alert and THISDAYLIVE in Nigeria. This study is undertaken within the framework of Critical Discourse Analysis drawing especially from Kress and Van Leeuwen Multimodal discourse approach to identify topics, macro and micro discourses. It regards discourses as “appearing in very many modes known as semiotic resources” (Kress and Van Leeuwen 2001:24).The results of this analysis indicate that despite the different ways of using language by the four newspapers, they tend to denigrate, denounce Boko Haram phenomenon and intensify to fight against it and show also the deconstruction of Boko Haram phenomenon.
Keywords: Boko Haram, Discourse, Terrorism, Critical Discourse Analysis, Multimodal
Discourse Approach, Language, media.