Metaphors of War and Engagement in Selected Sports Newspaper Reports in Nigeria

Nwodo, Cecilia Sopuluchi and CHUKWUIKE, JUDE TOCHUKWU and Samaila, Bitrus Zubairu (2020) Metaphors of War and Engagement in Selected Sports Newspaper Reports in Nigeria. International Journal of Humanities and Social Science Invention (IJHSSI), 9 (10). pp. 12-17. ISSN 2319 – 7722

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Abstract

Many works on the language of sports reporting have always focused on the stylistic features of their spontaneous nature of language use. This has neglected the rich resources of conceptual metaphors embedded in the language of sports reportage in print newspapers in Nigeria. Due to the pervasive nature of metaphor use in different spheres of our daily living, a number of metaphors of war and engagement were purposively selected from six issues each of Sunday Sporting Sun and The Nation Sporting Life newspapers in Nigeria between December 2019 and January 2020. The aim of the paper is to analyse the pragmatic functions of these metaphors selected from the different newspaper sources. The Metaphor Identification Procedure adopted is the Pragglejaz group (2007). The identified metaphors were then classified into conceptual metaphor categories for analysis using Charteris-Black’s (2004) Critical Metaphor Analysis. The discussion and findings reveal that the pragmatic functions of metaphors in the selected newspapers are persuasive, emotive and antagonistic. This shows, as the study concludes, that beyond the entertainment value of sports, there is a language depicting a game of engagement and war, which is worth examining because of its implication for language use for scholarship and social behaviour.

Item Type: Article
Subjects: P Language and Literature > PE English
Divisions: Faculty of Arts > Faculty of Law > Faculty of Management and Social Sciences
Depositing User: mrs chioma hannah
Date Deposited: 22 Aug 2025 19:17
Last Modified: 22 Aug 2025 19:17
URI: http://eprints.gouni.edu.ng/id/eprint/5160

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