CRITICAL DISCOURSE ANALYSIS ON DELIBERATIONS AMONG LECTURERS OF ARTS EDUCATION, PRINCE ABUBAKAR AUDU UNIVERSITY, ANYIGBA DURING THEIR EMERGENCY MEETING HELD IN THE HOD’S OFFICE ON 17 TH FEBRUARY, 2022

Abstract

The study was aimed at examining the power relations and social struggle among lecturers of Arts Education, Prince Abubakar Audu University, Anyigba. The researcher adopted qualitative descriptive research design. This work was hinged on the theory of Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA). Participants’ observation and document containing minutes of the Department Meeting held 17 th February 2022 were the major means of data-gathering for this research. What happened during the meeting was not controlled or conditioned but reflected the natural repertoire of how relations of power and social struggle are enacted and exercised in discourse, even among the intellectuals. The data collected were analysed with the instrumentality of descriptive and interpretative techniques. From the analysis, it was discovered that contemporary conversation is usually influenced by inherent property of a social system in which a particular discourse is situated and, the maximization of power of one class depends upon the maximization of its exploitation and domination of another. This study among other things, concludes that power is a social force that is struggled for in a conversation, those who hold power at a particular moment would want to constantly re-assert it, and those who do not hold it are always liable to make a bid for it.