Abstract
One
of the major Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) of the United Nations is the
realization of peaceful and inclusive societies by 2030. Given the devastating
effects of domestic violence, this paper provided a pragmatic analysis of
gender representations in media reports. Specifically, the paper analysed the
pragmatics of representations in order to ascertain the framing of actors in cases
of domestic violence in Nigeria. Data were drawn from purposively selected ten
(10) media reports gathered from: The
Punch, Daily Trust, The Guardian, The Vanguard, Premium Times and Nigerian
Tribune. The analysis of this study dwlled on the metaphorical
characteristics, speech acts, implicatures, presupposition and politeness norms
deployed in the projection of Self and Others in the discourses. The objective was among other things to
determine implications of domestic violence against women in Nigeria. The
analysis of the data revealed that Nigeria’s media discourse on domestic
violence represented women as dominated actors. In addition, the reports demonstrated unequal power relations
between male and female genders in Nigeria’s patriarchal society. In light
of the findings, it was recommended that the government demonstrates more
commitment to the realization of gender equality, as this has implications for
the realisation of a peaceful Nigerian society.
Keywords: pragmatics, gender,
media, domestic, violence
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author/OAMEN Felicia (PhD)
journal/Zamfara IJOH Vol. 1 Issue 3
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