@article{Ahmed_Eje_2016, title={A Discourse Analysis of Goodluck Jonathan’s Response to the Kidnapping of the Chibok Girls}, volume={3}, url={https://journals.covenantuniversity.edu.ng/index.php/cjls/article/view/65}, abstractNote={<p>This paper analyses former President Goodluck Jonathan‘s speech in <br />response to the kidnap of the Chibok girls in Borno State on April 15<br />th<br />2014. The paper <br />adopts Fairclough and Fairclough‘s (2012) approach to the analysis of political <br />discourse. This model of analysis incorporates critical discourse analysis with the <br />analytical framework of argumentation theory based on the view that political discourse <br />is primarily argumentative. The findings reveal that Jonathan‘s silence for security <br />reasons were persuasive but normatively deficient; some of his arguments were drawn <br />from dominant ideologies that favour the interest of his government, such as blaming <br />the problem of Boko Haram on economic disparity as opposed to the inability of the <br />government to win the fight against the extremists. The paper concludes that politics <br />and political realities are largely influenced by language since it is through language <br />that most political situations are evoked and experienced.</p>}, number={2}, journal={Covenant Journal of Language Studies}, author={Ahmed, Yunana and Eje, Monday Bello}, year={2016}, month={Feb.} }