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PROJECT TOPIC:  A CRITICAL DISCOURSE ANALYSIS OF HATE SPEECH COMMENTS ON NIGERIAN NEWS WEBSITES
Department:  Linguistics and Communic..
AMOUNT:  10,000
FORMAT:   MS WORD
PAGES:  91
 
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Abstract

Though hate speech has become a global phenomenon with different countries, organisations and individuals find it difficult to come up with a universal definition, detection techniques and classifications. This challenge has created a lacuna which has made legislation against hate speech difficult in many countries, especially Nigeria.  In this study, the researcher analyzed and categorized hate speech comments from two Nigerian news websites with a view to describing, categorizing and identifying prevalent hate speech themes. Words with the highest frequency of occurrence in the corpus are identified. Observatory and descriptive methods were used for data collection while both qualitative and quantitative approaches were adopted for analyses. The findings of the study showed that ethnic affiliation is the most common trigger of hate speech comments in Nigeria while the second person pronoun ‘you’ (which is used to emphasize others’ negative (EON)) is the word with the highest frequency

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