33.2492, Confs: Pragmatics, Applied Ling, Disc Analysis, Socioling/Nigeria

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Subject: 33.2492, Confs: Pragmatics, Applied Ling, Disc Analysis, Socioling/Nigeria

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Date: Tue, 16 Aug 2022 00:34:47
From: Akin Odebunmi [papaabnm2 at gmail.com]
Subject: Boko Haram terrorism in Nigeria and Atypical Discourses

 
Boko Haram terrorism in Nigeria and Atypical Discourses 
Short Title: BoTAD 

Date: 09-Jul-2023 - 14-Jul-2023 
Location: Ibadan, Nigeria 
Contact: Ruth Oji 
Contact Email: roji at pau.edu.ng 
Meeting URL: https://ipra2023.exordo.com 

Linguistic Field(s): Applied Linguistics; Discourse Analysis; Pragmatics; Sociolinguistics 

Meeting Description: 

The story of Nigerian terrorism can be traced back to the emergence of Boko
Haram (BH) in the country during the rule of President Goodluck Jonathan, and
it is still an on-going phenomenon in the current political dispensation under
the presidency of General Muhammadu Buhari. The diachronic history of
BH-terrorism comes with its own context: its being unprecedented, its mutative
nature leading to different manifestations of its nomenclatures and operations
and its conspiratorial dynamics. These are shown not only in Boko Haram’s
inception battle against Western education, but also in its changing
nomenclatural forms from “Boko Haram”, to “terrorists” and to “bandits”; its
open brazen recruitment of fighters and unofficial recognition by the Nigerian
government and the public; and its continuous integration of soldiers and
policemen into its operations. Recently, operating pugnaciously alongside
Islamic State’s West African Province (ISWAP), with crime perpetrators beyond
its official group coverage embodying other criminal groups in Nigeria, Boko
Haram has been connected to banditry, which has been focused mainly on
kidnapping, armed robbery and uncontrollable killings; the operations’ demands
of unreasonably huge ransoms are currently marked in the Nigerian political
history and social experiences. These are atypical events which are blatantly
opposed to the principles of good governance and human living in any form but
which have become almost a way of life in Nigeria and have birthed new
discourse forms. These forms, with different pragmatic functions, are, at one
level, manifest demonstrations of the threat to life and collapse of national
security system heralded by the emergence of Boko Haram and its mutations. The
high-level conspiratorial nature of the operations and the suspicion of the
compromise of the security intelligence system have, at another level, invited
caution and discreteness into the discourses of Boko Haram. Consequently, what
obtains is a mix of direct and indirect communicative resources to describe
and expose the havocs wreaked by BH in the media, on the social media, in
public life and other avenues of communication, itself a pragmatic phenomenon
embodying face management, pragmatic constraints and common ground.

This panel is interested in the atypical discourses resulting from the
atypical operations of BH and its allied connivers. In particular, it seeks to
address the diachrony of the nomenclatural and operational mutations of BH,
the contexts and constraints of its operations, its media reportage and its
everyday engagements, the ideological configurations informing its discourses,
and the pragmatic orientations associated with the atypicality of the
discourses. For comparative purposes, the panel is also interested in the
atypical discourses emerging from the operations of related organisations such
as ISIS, ISWAP and several other terrorist groups found in many places of the
world.
 






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