Lexical Innovation and Semantic Change in COVID-19 Reportage: A Corpus-Based Critical Discourse Analysis of Nigerian Newspapers
Language variation in COVID-19 reportage is a source of concern among linguistic scholars as nascent registers and N-grams stimulate negative cognition among the citizenry due to the choice of lexicons employed in reportage processes. While Osisanwo (2022) investigated representational strategy, discourse structure and...