Illegitimation of same-sex sexualities in news reports of selected Nigerian newspapers

IF 2.4 1区文学 Q1 COMMUNICATION Discourse & Society Pub Date : 2023-03-05 DOI:10.1177/09579265221142447

Olubunmi Funmi Oyebanji

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Abstract

Nigeria has stringent legislation against same-sex identified people and their supporters. Scholarly attention on same-sex relationships in the Nigerian context has mainly been on the legalistic and sociological perspectives, with little attention paid to how language serves as a means of illegitimising same-sex sexualities in the Nigerian media. This study, therefore, examines illegitimation strategies in the representation of same-sex sexualities in news reports of selected Nigerian newspapers. van Leeuwen’s theory of legitimation and Critical Discourse Analysis were adopted as the framework, for their contextual approaches to language. A total of 80 news reports on same-sex sexualities from four purposively selected Nigerian newspapers (Vanguard, The Punch, Nigerian Tribune and The Sun) were randomly sampled. The newspapers were selected based on their preponderant coverage of reports on LGBT people between 2013 and 2015. Journalists used experts’ authority, role-model/personal authority, authority of tradition, conformity, moral evaluation and analogy to legitimise discrimination against non-heterosexuals in news reports. This paper argues that the media are instrumental in the continuous violence against non-heterosexuals in Nigeria.

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尼日利亚部分报纸的新闻报道中对同性性行为的非法估计

尼日利亚有针对同性恋者及其支持者的严格立法。学者对尼日利亚背景下同性关系的关注主要集中在法律主义和社会学的视角上，很少关注语言如何在尼日利亚媒体中成为使同性性行为非法化的手段。因此，本研究考察了尼日利亚报纸新闻报道中同性性行为的非法化策略。范列文的合法性理论和批评话语分析被作为语言语境研究的框架。随机抽取了四家尼日利亚报纸(Vanguard, The Punch, nigeria Tribune和The Sun)上80篇关于同性性行为的新闻报道。这些报纸是根据它们在2013年至2015年期间对LGBT人群的大量报道而选出的。记者利用专家权威、榜样/个人权威、传统权威、从众权威、道德评价和类比等手段，使新闻报道中对非异性恋者的歧视合法化。本文认为媒体在尼日利亚对非异性恋者的持续暴力中发挥了重要作用。

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期刊介绍： Discourse & Society is a multidisciplinary peer-reviewed journal whose major aim is to publish outstanding research at the boundaries of discourse analysis and the social sciences. It focuses on explicit theory formation and analysis of the relationships between the structures of text, talk, language use, verbal interaction or communication, on the one hand, and societal, political or cultural micro- and macrostructures and cognitive social representations, on the other hand. That is, D&S studies society through discourse and discourse through an analysis of its socio-political and cultural functions or implications. Its contributions are based on advanced theory formation and methodologies of several disciplines in the humanities and social sciences.