A Critical Stylistic Analysis of the Identity of Minority Groups in the Nigerian Print Media

Abstract

This study aims to examine and elucidate on how minority groups are portrayed and constructed in the discourses reported in two Nigerian print media, The Nation, and The Guardian. The study adopts Jeffries’ Critical Stylistic as its framework. The data for the study were collected from the newspaper archives of the Hezekiah Oluwasanmi Library, Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile Ife. The analysis of the data shows that Critical Stylistic tools such as enumerating and exemplifying, assuming and implying, presenting other’s speech and thoughts, and presenting processes and states account in no small measure to the meaning of the texts under study and at the same time serve in the linguistic construction of the minority groups in Nigeria.

Keywords: Identity, Minority, Critical Stylistic, Print Media