Humour as discursive practice in Nigeria’s 2015 presidential election online campaign discourse

Discourse Studies

Volumn 17, Issue 6, 2015, Pages 643-662

  Adegoju, Adeyemi ^a   Oyebode, Oluwabunmi ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

^b OBAFEMI AWOLOWO UNIVERSITY   (Nigeria)

Author keywords

Humour; identity construction; ideology; Internet memes; Nigeria; social media

Indexed keywords

EID: 84947279141     PISSN: 14614456     EISSN: 14617080     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1461445615602378     Document Type: Article

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