https://hjuoz.uoz.edu.krd/index.php/hum <p>HJUOZ is a peer-reviewed journal publishing original research and review articles in the aspects related to Humanities and Social Sciences to ensure rapid and wide dissemination of the results of scientific researches that could trigger the advancement of above disciplines to serve various aspects of social sciences.</p> <p>Publication advantages in HJUOZ:</p> <p>1- Free publication charges for international authors.</p> <p>2- Constructive peer-review.</p> <p>3- Open access journal (global visibility). </p> <p>4- Easy online submission.</p> <p>5- Time to first decision 10-20 days.</p> <p>6- Free English language proofreading.</p> <p> <strong>e-ISSN:</strong> 2664-4681, <strong>p-ISSN:</strong> 2664-4673</p> <p><strong>DOI: <a href="http://doi.org/10.26436/hjuoz" target="_blank" rel="noopener">10.26436/hjuoz</a></strong></p> <p> </p> University of Zakho en-US Humanities Journal of University of Zakho 2664-4673 <h4>Authors who publish with this journal agree to the following terms:</h4> <ul> <li class="show">Authors retain copyright and grant the journal right of first publication with the work simultaneously licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution License [<a href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">CC BY-NC-SA 4.0</a>] that allows others to share the work with an acknowledgment of the work's authorship and initial publication in this journal.</li> <li class="show">Authors are able to enter into separate, additional contractual arrangements for the non-exclusive distribution of the journal's published version of the work, with an acknowledgment of its initial publication in this journal.</li> <li class="show">Authors are permitted and encouraged to post their work online.</li> </ul> https://hjuoz.uoz.edu.krd/index.php/hum/article/view/1728 <p>Internet memes as principal semiotic practices through which internet users engage in political participation have been explored from varied dimensions. Despite the growing body of linguistic research, the memeification of Tinubunomics (a category of PIMs) on social media sites has received little or no attention in the literature. By implication, Tinubunomic meme discourse is largely unpopular among academic scholars, specifically linguists. This study is, therefore, a leadoff exploration on Tinubunomic discourse in linguistic scholarship which draws insights from Kress and van Leeuwen’s (2006) socio-semiotics, van Dijk’s socio-cognitive approach to critical discourse studies and Neuendorf et al.’s (2014) multiple senses of humour (SOH). Thus, it investigates the syntactic and multimodal representation of ideology in Nigerian ‘Tinubunomic’ internet memes. To achieve this, the study identifies the linguistic and semiotic resources in the memes; explores the interplay between the linguistic elements and semiotic resources depicting participants in the memes; and illuminates the ideological meanings underlying the humour rhetoric. Data for this study consist of verbal-visual humorous internet memes that centre on Tinubunomics, and shared on Tiktok Lite, Whatspp, Instagram and Nairaland between June 2023 and June 2024. The study hypothesises that there is no significant relationship between the syntactic and multimodal features of Tinubunomic internet memes and the ideological positions they express about Tinubu economic policies. Findings unearthed that syntactic elements in the memes range from words, catchphrases to sentences; while images and colour were utilised as semiotic resources; both the syntactic elements and the visual elements worked together as multimodal ensembles to produce repetition, allusion, ironic sarcasm, name-calling, and foregrounding. Also, it was discovered that the memes presented Tinubunomics dark and disparaging humours that serve the ideological dual purposes of denigrating Tinubunomics as impoverishing economism while emphasising in positive terms Nigerians’ resilience in the face of oppression. Based on these findings, the hypothesis is hereby rejected. The study concluded that Tinubunomic meme strategically combines syntactic features and multimodal resources like satire and visual metaphor to construct and circulate competing ideologies that either legitimize or contest Tinubu’s economic policies. The study will be a rich addition to the expanding body of literature on the semiotic affordances of humour discourse in political internet memes.</p> Joel Iyiola Olaleye Adetutu Aragbuwa Toyese Najeem Dahunsi Copyright (c) 2026 Joel Iyiola Olaleye, Adetutu Aragbuwa, Toyese Najeem Dahunsi http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0 2026-07-12 2026-07-12 14 3 445 455 10.26436/hjuoz.2026.14.3.1728 https://hjuoz.uoz.edu.krd/index.php/hum/article/view/1761 <p>Scholarly research is awash with the examination of violence-related reports in newspapers to determine different psychological and sociological factors responsible for these crimes. However, violence relating to parricide from e-newspaper headlines remains one area which has scarcely been explored by scholars, especially from linguistic orientations. This study examined a stylo-linguistic analysis of selected e-newspaper headlines on parricide to unravel the linguistic choices employed by the writers to convey in-depth and subtle meanings. The theoretical framework adopted for the study is Halliday’s functional stylistics, which highlights the meeting point between language use and social meaning of texts, and also sees language as a coding method of constructing what is implied in a given text. Thirty-six e-news headlines on parricide between November 2022 and January 2023 were sampled from different online sources and were closely read to identify, classify and analyse, through a qualitative approach, the stylo-linguistic resources used by the news writers to communicate their intended messages. It was found from the corpus that the writers preponderantly made use of catchy hypotactic nominalization, prominent paratactic lexicalization, accusative and incriminating verbal elements, copious complex complementation and adversative adverbials to synthetically and systematically portray the ‘who’ (offenders/accomplices), the ‘whom’ (victims/casualties), the ‘how’ (weapons used), the ‘why’ (reason for/purpose of the crime) and the ‘what next’ (consequences/results of the heinous crimes).</p> Emmanuel Jolaolu Adegbenro Copyright (c) 2026 Emmanuel Jolaolu Adegbenro http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0 2026-07-13 2026-07-13 14 3 456 466 10.26436/hjuoz.2026.14.3.1761