Aspects of Transitivity in Select Social Transformation Discourse in Nigeria

作     者：Mohammed Ademilokun Adesoji Babalola 

作者机构：the Department of EnglishObafemi Awolowo UniversityNigeria 

出 版 物：《Language and Semiotic Studies》 (语言与符号学研究（英文）)

年 卷 期：2020年第6卷第2期

页      面：42-64页

学科分类：0502[文学-外国语言文学] 050201[文学-英语语言文学] 05[文学] 

主　　题：critical discourse analysis Nigeria social transformation discourse systemic functional linguistics transitivity 

摘      要：This article examines transitivity in the mediatised discourse of social transformation in *** for the study comprises texts on aspects of social transformation campaigns in Nigeria in the context of democracy,anti-corruption crusades,insecurity,and domestic *** data was drawn from speeches,radio commentaries,jingles,printed texts,interviews,tweets,and online newspaper comments about government actors and non-government actors covering the period between March 2013 to March *** five-year span was informed by a wide gamut of negative realities in the nation which led to increased mediatisation of social transformation *** analysis of data is hinged on the transitivity system espoused in Halliday’s systemic functional linguistics and critical discourse analysis by Fairclough(1989;revised 2015)and Machin and Mayr(2012).Data analysis revealed that the different participants in the discourse deployed material processes,relational processes,and mental processes to negotiate the social transformation challenge and agenda in *** presentation of the agents in relation to the processes in the discourse reflected positive in-group representation and negative-other representation for legitimation and *** study concludes that transitivity is a veritable tool in the discourse that primarily serves in foregrounding social problems in Nigeria while also affording social participation.