A Lexical Analysis of an Inaugural Speech of the Speaker of Benue State House of Assembly in Nigeria

Olajoke, Akinkurolere Susan

doi:10.17507/jltr.0602.03

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“…It can be clarified that this element does not play an important role in lexical cohesion, especially in Mila's talks. This statement is also supported by other studies that have the same findings related to superordinate (Malah, 2015;Olajoke, 2015). They reported that superordinate was the rare element involving in lexical cohesion.…”

Section: Superordinatesupporting

confidence: 84%

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Lexical Cohesion in Kid Talks: The Instagram Videos of Mila Stauffer

Amalia

Hidayat

2020

IJIH

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This study aims to examine the use of lexical elements in kid talks. Mila Stauffer is a four-year-old celebrity who has four million followers on her Instagram account. Mila is known as a child who frequently shares her thoughts about particular topics, expressively, and comprehensively. The researchers are interested in Mila Stauffer because her Instagram videos have many viewers and comments. Numerous Instagram users also like her because she is different from the children that have the same age as her. In order to analyze Mila’s opinion about some topics through videos, lexical cohesion played an important role in the present study. To obtain an in-depth study of lexical cohesion, this study then analyzed ten Instagram videos with the available subtitle. The data of the study were collected through the Instagram account, Kcstauffer. The researchers applied a quantitative method in analyzing the lexical cohesion. Furthermore, the lexical cohesion analysis proposed by Halliday & Hasan has been used in the present study. The study revealed that, as analysed from Mila’s talk, there are differences between kids and adults in terms of the use of repetition. Further, repetition plays an important role in kids talk; one of which is to achieve cohesiveness in speaking. On the other hand, the least lexical cohesive devices used in a kid talk is superordinate.

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Section: Superordinatesupporting

confidence: 84%

“…The researchers only found a study concerning the use of antonym in spoken discourse. In his research, Olajoke (2015) reported that there were only 3 antonyms used in a political speech. Instead, he discovered 47 repetitions and 19 synonyms.…”

Section: Antonymmentioning

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Lexical Cohesion in Kid Talks: The Instagram Videos of Mila Stauffer

Amalia

Hidayat

2020

IJIH

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“…An antonym has a meaning opposite to that of another word (Amalia & Hidayat, 2020), such as hot and cold, short and tall. 6) General word A general word occurs when a word of general meaning substitutes a more specific one (Olajoke, 2015). For example, "The old bridge can collapse any time.…”

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An Investigation of Lexical Cohesion on Indonesian Singer Song

Murodi

Hidayat

Alek

2021

Onoma

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This paper sheds light on investigating the lexical cohesion on an Indonesian singer song entitled Coke Bottle by Agnez Mo. Lexical cohesion constitutes linguistic devices that help to create cohesiveness of the text. Lexical cohesion occurs when two words or more in a text are semantically related somehow – in other words, they are related in terms of their meaning. This study's design was a descriptive qualitative that attempted to elaborate the discourse analysis about lexical cohesion in Coke Bottle song by Agnez Mo. Some steps were conducted to collect the data, firstly, the lyrics that become the documentation were collected by the researcher from lyrics.com, secondly the researcher read the lyrics to understand the text. Thirdly, marking some words included as lexical cohesions in which they will be the real data of this study. The findings revealed that reiteration and collocation are found in the song, but the antonym that is part of reiteration is absent. Above all, repetition is the most commonly used in this song, especially the word I. This seems to indicate that the songwriter tried to make the song's lyrics match the music's beat, so the song became easy listening, and the listeners can enjoy the music.

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“…This present study differs in both areas of scope and theory. Ayeomoni and Akinkuolere (2012) examined traits of victory in inaugural speeches of President Umaru Musa Yar'adua, while Akinkurolere (2015) applied lexical analysis in the study of inaugural speech. The speech in this present study is different from the ones in the studies above in the sense that it is a pre-election speech, while the ones in Ayeomoni and Akinkurolere (2012) and Akinkurolere (2015) are post-election speeches.…”

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2024

BJEL

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Chatham House, for the reason of its royalty, institutionalism and independence, has become a global beehive and platform where, especially Nigerian political actors articulate their ambitions and policies and prove the mettle of their deservedness for the nation's helmsman's job. Extant political discourse studies have largely examined conventional campaign speech-situations with stint considerations for political expressions offered on the postmodern globalised campaign platforms. This study, therefore, investigated Peter Obi's Chatham House speech (POCHS) with a view to examining the contextually referenced discursive strategies that project Nigerian presidential candidacy as more of offshore interest in the twenty-first century global politics. Martin and White's Appraisal Theory was used as the framework in analysing the elemental linguistic and non-linguistic strategies deployed in the electronically sourced POCHS. The data, processed into analysable extract-units, were subjected to Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA). Mr. Peter Obi's (PO) unusual employment of attitude-demonstrated 'affect', 'appreciation' and 'judgement' was unique in relating his global audience to virtues and attributes that qualify him for the Nigerian topmost position, presenting him as an unconventional politician. Positive and negative appreciation and judgements were used for personal-self-evaluation, corporate-self-evaluation, 'others-self-evaluation', and nation-self-evaluation while the bases for appreciation and judgement were personal and party competence, problems, policy gaps and solutions. PO deployed engagement as monogloss and heterrogloss on top of 'graduation' with intensifiers and quantifiers as force that projected 'focus', 'emphasis' and 'analogies'. Thus, globalised political context influenced PO's exploitation of the rarely available global platforms (Chatham House) to articulate his political ambition and manifesto. Language is, therefore, revealed as dynamic force for presentation and evaluation of persons, problems, policies and panaceas that are capable of endearing him to the expectation of the audience at Chatham House, pointing to Nigerian presidency as a phenomenon of 21 st century's global interest.

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A Lexical Analysis of an Inaugural Speech of the Speaker of Benue State House of Assembly in Nigeria

Cited by 8 publications

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Lexical Cohesion in Kid Talks: The Instagram Videos of Mila Stauffer

Lexical Cohesion in Kid Talks: The Instagram Videos of Mila Stauffer

An Investigation of Lexical Cohesion on Indonesian Singer Song

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