International Journal of English Literature and Culture

IJELC

ISSN:2360-7831

International Journal of English Literature and Culture

Vol. 10(2), pp. 36-44, June 2022

 ISSN: 2360-7831

https://doi.org/10.14662/ijelc2022080

 

Review

 

Critical Discourse Analysis of Atiku Abubakar’s ‘Let’s Get Nigeria Moving Again’ 2019 Presidential Campaign Speech

 

1Suu’omany Samuel Cletus and 2Wada Richard Sylvester

 

1Adamawa State Polytechnic Yola. Corresponding author 's E-mail: suuomanys@gmail.com Tel. +2348077537111

2Adamawa State Polytechnic Yola. E-mail: wadarichard@gmail.com

Accepted 20 June 2022

Abstract

 

Political speeches are broad as their events and forums are. The paper, to a large extent analyzes critically the 2019 ‘Let’s Get Nigeria Moving Again’ campaign speech of Atiku Abubakar. In carrying out the analysis, Van Leeuwen’s Social Actor Network (2008), a socio-semantic inventory, as a central framework was used. The result of the analysis shows that, not only do politicians utilize representations of social actors to mold the perceptions from within the ideological opinions of their discourse, but they also utilize meaning to persuade their votersto vote for them. It also, shows how meaning can be embedded in language and how social actors and actions can be deeply rooted in language. The speech analysis revealed in particular, the ideologies/plans on which his government intends to operate if voted into power.

 

Keywords: Discourse, critical discourse analysis, Speech, and political speech  


 

Cite This Article As: Suu’omany, S. C., Wada, R.S. (2022). Critical Discourse Analysis of Atiku Abubakar’s ‘Let’s Get Nigeria Moving Again’ 2019 Presidential Campaign Speech. Inter. J. Eng. Lit. Cult. 10(2): 36-44