News reporting on conflict situations mainly manipulates discursive and representational strategies in portraying people, actions and events either negatively or positively based on certain prejudiced ideologies. This article examines salient discursive strategies deployed by Nigerian and Cameroonian newspapers to represent socio-political ideologies in their reports on the Bakassi Peninsula border conflict. Data comprise 127 instances of discourse strategies drawn from two Nigerian and two Cameroonian English-medium national newspapers published between August 2006 and August 2010. By integrating insights from van Dijk’s Critical Discourse Analysis, findings reveal that both countries’ reports create polarity of positive in-group and negative out-group ideologies through seven discursive strategies which include slanted headlining, negative labelling, evidentiality, number game, hyperbolism, victimization and depersonalization. The strategies embody ideological prejudices of positive self- and negative other-representations which are rife in both nations’ news reports on the disputed Peninsula.

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尼日利亚-喀麦隆巴卡西半岛边界冲突的部分报纸报道中的讨论策略和意识形态

有关冲突局势的新闻报道主要根据某些偏见的意识形态，以消极或正面的方式运用话语和代表性策略来描绘人物，行动和事件。本文研究了尼日利亚和喀麦隆报纸在针对巴卡西半岛边界冲突的报道中所采用的显着话语策略，以代表社会政治意识形态。数据包含从2006年8月至2010年8月间出版的两本尼日利亚和两本喀麦隆英语中等国家报纸中抽取的127种话语策略实例。通过整合范迪克的《关键话语分析》的见解，调查结果表明，两国的报告都形成了积极的内在极性。通过七个话语策略（包括倾斜的标题，负面标签，证据，号码游戏，夸张，受害和人格解体。这些策略体现了积极的自我代表和消极的其他代表的意识形态偏见，这在两国有关有争议的半岛的新闻报道中盛行。