A STYLISTIC ANALYSIS OF SOME SELECTED NIGERIAN NEWSPAPER READERS’ FACEBOOK COMMENTS

Authors

  • ABDULLAHI S. BASHIR Department of Information Technology, Modibbo Adama University of Technology, Yola, Adamawa State.
  • SARAH GAMBO Dept. of Mass Communication, Taraba State University, Jalingo.

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.56666/ahyu.v1i.98

Keywords:

Facebook, comments, stylistics, newspaper

Abstract

This paper undertakes a stylistic analysis of selected Nigerian newspaper readers’
comments on Facebook. Two national newspapers’ websites were purposively selected to generate a corpus for the study using some popular news items on their Facebook pages. The paper analysed readers’ comments based on rhetorical and graphological features. Findings show that there is preponderance of coinages, abbreviation, mixed capitalisation and small letter from the graphological aspect and rhetorical questions and repetition from the rhetorical side. The study concludes that newspaper readers’ comments on Facebook vary with the hardcopy versions both in quantity and quality. Reader comments on Facebook tend to be unconventional in English languageuse.The study recommends that newspaper readers’ comments on social media be further subjected to other stylistic analysis.

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Published

2017-12-04

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BASHIR, A. S. ., & GAMBO, S. . (2017). A STYLISTIC ANALYSIS OF SOME SELECTED NIGERIAN NEWSPAPER READERS’ FACEBOOK COMMENTS. Ahyu: A Journal of Language and Literature, 1, 36–42. https://doi.org/10.56666/ahyu.v1i.98

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Vol. 1 (2017): AHYU: A JOURNAL OF LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE

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