A STUDY OF IDEOLOGICAL EMBEDDING IN THE GUARDIAN AND DAILY TRUST EDITORIALS

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dc.contributor.authorBAYODE, IDOWU FOLUKE
dc.date.accessioned2015-01-16T08:32:09Z
dc.date.available2015-01-16T08:32:09Z
dc.date.issued2014-04
dc.descriptionA THESIS SUBMITTED TO THE SCHOOL OF POSTGRADUATE STUDIES IN PARTIAL FULFILLMENT OF THE REQUIREMENTS FOR THE AWARD OF MASTER DEGREE IN ENGLISH LANGUAGE IN THE DEPARTMENT OF ENGLISH AND LITERARY STUDIES AT THE FACULTY OF ARTS, AHMADU BELLO UNIVERSITY, ZARIA-NIGERIA APRIL 2014en_US
dc.description.abstractThis work is a study of ideology and its workings in two Nigerian Newspapers: The Guardian and Daily Trust using Modality as the analytical element. Modality as a property of language use is generally exploited by language users and its role in newspaper editorials is of importance in that editorial writers tend to make use of it to establish either a positive comment or bias in a text to manipulate their readers’ opinions. Through Critical Discourse Analysis of the selected editorials culled from The Guardian and Daily Trust, the present study firstly aimed at identifying the linguistic manifestations of modality employed in the two newspapers and secondly embarked on some elaborate descriptions of the implications of the cited data. Modals such as “can”, “could”, “may”, “must” and “should” were specifically isolated and fully characterised to account for the orientations of the newspapers. An analysis of the two papers shows that modals were employed as ideological devices. Also, a comparison - in terms of how modals were employed - suggests that The Guardian made more use of modals of obligation and necessity, while Daily Trust preferred mainly predictive auxiliary modals to the other kinds of modals. The higher number of the predictive modals in Daily Trust thus suggests the idea that identifying what would happen in the future is the main concern of the editorial writers, while The Guardian is more concerned with strongly prescribing steps for the government to followen_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/123456789/5830
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.subjectIDEOLOGICAL,en_US
dc.subjectEMBEDDING,en_US
dc.subjectGUARDIAN,en_US
dc.subjectDAILYT RUST,en_US
dc.subjectEDITORIALS.en_US
dc.titleA STUDY OF IDEOLOGICAL EMBEDDING IN THE GUARDIAN AND DAILY TRUST EDITORIALSen_US
dc.typeThesisen_US
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