A Stylo-Linguistics Analysis of President Bola Ahmed Tinubu "Emi Lokan" Speech
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2025-06
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Department of Language and Linguistics, Gombe State University
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Language plays major role in expressing thought, feeling and winning the audience interest and attention. This is typified in President Bola Ahmed Tinubu Èmi ló kàn speech, which automatically changes the political scenario in the ruling party; especially during their party primaries in preparation for 2023 general elections. Data for the study were elicited secondarily online. The speech was downloaded, transcribed and translated. The data were then analysed especially the syntactic aspect within the theoretical framework of Government and Binding Theory (GB). We found out that the speaker uses different communicative strategies intentionally to present the political complication and complexityaroundhispoliticaljourneyinwinninghisaudience.Hethendrewhis apparatus from both the linguistic and stylistic reservoirs. We also observed that President Tinubu uses a common tribal sense to stir up his audience support and see the battle as a we-fight for the entire Yoruba race through what we referred toasacollectivepronominalreference.Finally,weassumethattheentirespeech istheeffectiveuseofthepowerofallusioninstirringupandmotivatingaudience interest.
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S.A. Tella, R.A. Rabiu and N.B. Aiyelabegan (2025). A Stylo-Linguistics Analysis of President Bola Ahmed Tinubu "Emi Lokan" Speech