Abstract
Language is a powerful tool for conveying meaning, shaping opinion, and expressing social hierarchies, making it central to political discourse. Because writers and speakers make deliberate linguistic choices that reveal ideological positions, it is important to examine how such choices express or shape ideological variation. This study investigates how ideology is articulated and shared in online political comments by analysing a purposively sampled corpus of user-generated posts drawn from major Nigerian political discussion forums and social media platforms over three months. Using a critical stylistic framework supported by corpus methods, the study explores the linguistic patterns through which ideological meanings are constructed and circulated in these digital spaces.
Keywords: Critical Stylistics, Online Political discourse, Social Media language, politics, Governor Fubara.
DOI: www.doi.org/10.36349/sojolics.2025.v01i01.017
author/Moshood Abimbola Alabi
journal/Sokoto JOLICS 1(1) | June 2025 |
