Abstract
This paper scrutinizes the language of digital discourse in Nigeria. Digital discourse analysis is concerned with how multimodal, multisemiotic resources are employed to enact identities, activities and ideologies in the digital world, as part of a larger social world. Data for this study comprised of 130 online posts collected from This Day Newspaper and Daily Trust NewspaperFacebook pages. Data was collected between August and September 2020 to extract the political comments of forum members before and after the gubernational election in Edo state. The data were analysed using the sociolinguistic and discourse methods alongside Fairclough’s Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA) and Halliday's Systemic Functional Grammar (SFG) as the theoretical models. Findings reveal that digital discourse in Nigeria is distinguished by attributes of two English variants: Nigerian English and internet English. Loan words and culture-specific speech habits are recognized to be in the enclave of Nigerian English whilst shortening devices and instances of verbal language are within the sphere of internet English.
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