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Human trafficking in nairaland digital community: A corpus-assisted critical discourse study
| Τίτλος: | Human trafficking in nairaland digital community: A corpus-assisted critical discourse study |
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| Συγγραφείς: | Osisanwo, Ayo |
| Πηγή: | Osisanwo , A 2025 , ' Human trafficking in nairaland digital community: A corpus-assisted critical discourse study ' , Discourse Studies , vol. 27 , no. 4 , pp. 590-609 . https://doi.org/10.1177/14614456241282869 |
| Έτος έκδοσης: | 2025 |
| Συλλογή: | Leuphana University of Lüneburg: Forschungsindex FOX |
| Θεματικοί όροι: | Corpus-assisted critical discourse study, digital communities, discourse construction, human traffickers, human trafficking, victims of trafficking in Nigeria, /dk/atira/pure/core/keywords/600082393, name=Literature studies, /dk/atira/pure/sustainabledevelopmentgoals/good_health_and_well_being, name=SDG 3 - Good Health and Well-being, /dk/atira/pure/sustainabledevelopmentgoals/gender_equality, name=SDG 5 - Gender Equality, /dk/atira/pure/sustainabledevelopmentgoals/decent_work_and_economic_growth, name=SDG 8 - Decent Work and Economic Growth, /dk/atira/pure/sustainabledevelopmentgoals/peace_justice_and_strong_institutions, name=SDG 16 - Peace, Justice and Strong Institutions, /dk/atira/pure/subjectarea/asjc/3300/3315, name=Communication, /dk/atira/pure/subjectarea/asjc/3300/3310, name=Linguistics and Language, /dk/atira/pure/subjectarea/asjc/3300/3314, name=Anthropology, /dk/atira/pure/subjectarea/asjc/1200/1203, name=Language and Linguistics, /dk/atira/pure/subjectarea/asjc/3200/3207, name=Social Psychology |
| Περιγραφή: | Human trafficking in Nigeria as a topical issue has enjoyed more sociological interrogation with very scant attention in linguistics and discourse. This paper applies a corpus-assisted critical discourse study to examine representative posts on human trafficking in Nigeria (2019 to 2022) retrieved from the Nairaland digital community. Using the Sketch Engine corpus tool and social actors representation model, this paper investigates how different constructions were deployed by participants to represent human trafficking, human traffickers and traffick victims in Nigeria. Findings suggest four constructions oriented to negativity: prostitution/commodification of sex, abuse of underage for sexual satisfaction, maltreatment of others for huge labour, dismembering of humans for occultism and health-assurance. Participants deployed role allocation, nominalisation, and others to negatively evaluate human traffickers, especially as economic usurpers, exploiters, and fraudsters, while the traffick-victims were represented as naïve, non-violent, armless, defenceless and (in)active recipients of the activities of the human traffickers. The dominant negative constructs manifested implicitly and explicitly through tagging, negative comparison, appeal to sentimentalities, and expression of detest, while the positive constructs of victims manifested through pity and appeal to humanity. Online participants attack the political class, and declare their ideological stances on human traffickers in Nigeria, making efforts to project suppressed stances. |
| Τύπος εγγράφου: | article in journal/newspaper |
| Γλώσσα: | English |
| DOI: | 10.1177/14614456241282869 |
| Διαθεσιμότητα: | http://fox.leuphana.de/portal/de/publications/human-trafficking-in-nairaland-digital-community-a-corpusassisted-critical-discourse-study(b25effc6-aa79-41b4-835e-8b7330cec337).html https://doi.org/10.1177/14614456241282869 http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85206448842&partnerID=8YFLogxK |
| Rights: | info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess |
| Αριθμός Καταχώρησης: | edsbas.2D7B7F3D |
| Βάση Δεδομένων: | BASE |
| DOI: | 10.1177/14614456241282869 |
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