Our land, our struggle, our dream: a poststructuralist reading of Niger Delta conflict rhetoric in Ahmed Yerima’s <i>Hard Ground</i>

Adegoju, Adeyemi

doi:10.1080/14725843.2016.1261691

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“…Dialogic elements such as dialogic loop, usefulness of information, return visits, ease of interface and conservation of visitors would go a long way to help build and manage a nation's image. Given the rather poor image of Africa created in the mainstream media and other related literature (Osei & Gbadamosi, 2011;Browning & de Oliveira, 2016;Adegoju, 2017), applying the dialogic communication principles to a place website would help build the image of African destinations.…”

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“…Indeed, to be able to manage impressions, there should be an avenue of discovering the impressions held by international audiences. Developing countries such as those in Africa need to ensure that they follow the advice of Adegoju (2017) to 'tell their own story', given that there are numerous potential tourist attractions in Africa which remain unknown. In addition, such activities could go a long way to change negative stereotypes about the African continent.…”

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“…Tourism contributes significantly to the economic growth in Africa compared to other regions (Ivanov and Webster, 2013), however, conflicting brand image and brand identity (De Chernatony, 1999;Grönroos, 2007) could explain the under exploitation of tourism potential in Africa. Potential tourism opportunities in Africa and their related benefits have consequently not been realised (Osei and Gbadamosi, 2011;Osabutey, et al, 2014;Santos and Campo, 2014;Adegoju, 2017;Hinson et al, 2017), partly due to the poor destination branding. In a related study, Pitt et al (2007) looked at the effectiveness of how some African countries have communicated their brand personalities and concluded that while some destinations have specific brand personalities they communicate, others fail to do so succinctly.…”

Section: African Destinations' Place Websitementioning

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Exploring the dialogic communication potential of selected African destinations' place websites

Hinson

Osabutey

Kosiba

2020

Journal of Business Research

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As websites have become increasingly popular as a source of information for customers, place websites can play a critical role in the choices potential visitors/tourists make about destinations.This study aims at understanding how the dialogic communication potential of four African destinations' place websites relates to destination image from the perspective of potential visitors/tourists. The study employed a quantitative research approach for data collection and analyses. Specifically, data was analysed using the structural equation modelling approach. The dialogic communication principles of a website serve as an antecedent to forming customer perceptions about a destination. The destination image impression of a country positively relates to visiting intentions; an indication that perceived destination image is another antecedent of visiting intentions. Place websites have surprisingly not adequately featured in academic and practitioner interrogation with respect to brand marketing and communications and this paper is one of the attempts to address this research lacuna. Significant implications for researchers and managers promoting destinations have been highlighted.

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Exploring the dialogic communication potential of selected African destinations' place websites

Hinson

Osabutey

Kosiba

2020

Journal of Business Research

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“…Likewise, scholarly linguistic studies on Ahmed Yerima's plays (e.g. Odebunmi, 2006;Adeniji & Osunbade 2014a, 2014bAcheoah & Sunday, 2014;Adegoju, 2016) have focused largely on their stylistic and pragmatic features as well as their context-sensitivity to the realities in Nigeria. Despite numerous studies on the linguistic deconstruction of literary texts, literary discourse analysis remains an under-researched aspect of the literature.…”

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A Comparative Study of Female Transgressors in Tess Onwueme’s The Broken Calabash and the Reign of Wazobia: A Feminist Critical Discourse Analytical Perspective

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International Journal on Studies in English Language and Litera

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Rapport-management strategies in conflict situations

Ononye

2021

IJLL

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Chuka Ononye (University of Nigeria) The (mis)management of rapport amongst groups in Niger Delta (ND) communities has become a significant issue, which Ahmed Yerima’s Hard Ground (HG) depicts as having the capacity to aid or control the conflicts in the region. Linguistic studies on Yerima’s drama from the perspective of pragmatics have tended to use pragmatic acts to identify the discourse value of proverbs and functions of characters’ utterances but have not accounted for the politeness strategies utilised for rapport management, especially in conflict situations. This article, drawing on a rapport management model of politeness and aspects of speech act discourse, identifies the face, sociality rights, and interactional goals that characterise the conflict-motivated dialogues sampled in HG, and reveals the rapport management (RM) strategies through which these are managed in the text. Three conflict situations can be observed as prompting different RM strategies: cause-effect identification (CEI), militancy support (MSP), and disagreement (DSG) situations. CEI is marked by incriminating (involving eliciting and informing acts) and exonerating (including complimenting and acknowledging acts) strategies; MSP is indexed by strategies of persuasion (realised with face-enhancing/threatening acts), whereas DSG is typified by requesting (featuring explicit head acts and alerters) and blaming strategies (including insulting and threatening, aggravating moves). Generally, the requesting, blaming, and exonerating strategies are largely used by the ND youth in HG to probe, threaten, or disagree on specific issues, while the incriminating and persuasion strategies are mainly employed by the women to indict, influence, and predict future actions. The study of RM in the conflict situations depicted in the play sheds light on the often neglected cause of conflicts in contemporary Africa.

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Our land, our struggle, our dream: a poststructuralist reading of Niger Delta conflict rhetoric in Ahmed Yerima’s Hard Ground

Cited by 3 publications

References 7 publications

Exploring the dialogic communication potential of selected African destinations' place websites

Exploring the dialogic communication potential of selected African destinations' place websites

A Comparative Study of Female Transgressors in Tess Onwueme’s The Broken Calabash and the Reign of Wazobia: A Feminist Critical Discourse Analytical Perspective

Rapport-management strategies in conflict situations

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