Ideological Construction of Deviance in Street Children’s Discourse in Southwestern Nigeria
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In: Zeitschrift für Diskursforschung, Vol. 11, No. 1, 01.2023, p. 10-30.
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T1 - Ideological Construction of Deviance in Street Children’s Discourse in Southwestern Nigeria
AU - Olajimbiti, Ezekiel Opeyemi
PY - 2023/1
Y1 - 2023/1
N2 - This paper explores how Nigerian street children construct deviance in their discourse, which has been overlooked in previous research. Through participant observation and interviews with 104 street children and Critical linguistic qualitative analysis using the CDA approach, findings show that deviance was constructed as alignment with street abnormality and a struggle for survival. Employing strategies such as evocations of sympathy, commonality, trivialization, and overgeneralization, their constructions reflect street ideology and beliefs which highlight social inequality and class differences between streets and mainstream society. These beliefs shape street childrens cognitive models, value systems and influence their worldview.
AB - This paper explores how Nigerian street children construct deviance in their discourse, which has been overlooked in previous research. Through participant observation and interviews with 104 street children and Critical linguistic qualitative analysis using the CDA approach, findings show that deviance was constructed as alignment with street abnormality and a struggle for survival. Employing strategies such as evocations of sympathy, commonality, trivialization, and overgeneralization, their constructions reflect street ideology and beliefs which highlight social inequality and class differences between streets and mainstream society. These beliefs shape street childrens cognitive models, value systems and influence their worldview.
KW - Literature studies
KW - Devianz
KW - Deviance
KW - Beliefs
KW - Critical linguistics
KW - Nigerian Street Children
U2 - 10.3262/ZFD2301010
DO - 10.3262/ZFD2301010
M3 - Journal articles
VL - 11
SP - 10
EP - 30
JO - Zeitschrift für Diskursforschung
JF - Zeitschrift für Diskursforschung
SN - 2195-867X
IS - 1
ER -