An Examination of the use of Authority and Ideological Tenacity in President Muhammadu Buharis and Former President Goodluck Jonathans Inaugural Speeches

An Examination of the use of Authority and Ideological Tenacity in President Muhammadu Buhari's and Former President Goodluck Jonathan's Inaugural Speeches

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ABSTRACT

This paper describes comparative discourse analysis of two inaugural speeches of the immediate past president and his successor. This study compares the two inaugural speeches of Ex-President Goodluck Jonathan and President Mohammadu Buhari.

This research work looks into political and critical analysis of power and ideology in the two inaugural speeches. It entails a paragraph by paragraph analysis for thorough and complete analysis. The ideological analysis was first carried out and then the power analysis also

The study also analyses in view of comparing both the power and ideological cues in the two inaugural speeches of the two presidents concerned.


An Examination of the use of Authority and Ideological Tenacity in President Muhammadu Buhari’s and Former President Goodluck Jonathan’s Inaugural Speeches

CHAPTER ONE

1.1 Introduction

… As a prelude to other parts of this study, this chapter will discuss the background upon which this study was initiated, the statement of problems that led to this study, the Aim and Objectives of the study. Others are Significance of the study, Scope of work, Research hypothesis and questions, Limitation of the study and Definition of technical terms.

CHAPTER TWO

2.0 Literature Review

2.1 Introduction

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