ABSTRACT
Boko Haram data is 131 as shown above (only 04 instances are shown in the Al Shabaab data due to the size of data). The same goes for attitude markers. From Table 1, it is quite clear that words reflecting ideological positive self-evaluation and words reflecting attitude markers (or emotional commitment) are the most prevalent in radicalist discourse. This shows that discourses of radical groups or terrorist are highly ideological as this study shows. Hence, the study of stance in discourse is one fruitful method of studying the nature of language features as well as their functions in a wider social context.
