Mark Nartey

List of John Benjamins publications for which Mark Nartey plays a role.

Journals

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Subjects Communication Studies | Discourse studies | Pragmatics
This Special Issue expands on the ongoing dialogue on the decolonial project by bringing together thought-provoking papers that examine the communication of female political leaders in the Global South. It draws on data from West Africa, Latin America, the Caribbean and the Middle East to… read more
Informed by a critical discourse analytical approach to agency, this paper examines the construction of agency in the speeches of Mia Mottley, the prime minister of Barbados. The analysis reveals that she enacts her agency in three main ways: (1) constructing strong and decisive leadership, (2)… read more
Sarfo-Kantankah, Kwabena Sarfo, Richmond Sadick Ngula and Mark Nartey 2024 The discursive construction of solidarity by Ghanaian female parliamentariansPolitical discourse analysis of female political leaders in the Global South, Nartey, Mark (ed.), pp. 91–112 | Article
Research on issues of women has largely focused attention on, among others, power asymmetries and gender stereotypes, with less emphasis on positive linguistic mechanisms of women. Drawing on a critical discourse analytical approach and using Ghanaian parliamentary debates as data, this paper… read more
This paper analyzes the legitimation strategies used by Jerry John Rawlings, a Ghanaian revolutionary leader, to license his revolutionary actions, including political enemy executions and a crackdown on corrupt practices. It adapts and extends van Leeuwen’s legitimation framework by… read more
Employing Wodak’s discourse-historical approach, this paper examines how Ghana’s independence leader – Kwame Nkrumah – in his creation of the Unite or Perish myth constructed ‘the African people’ in a manner in sync with populist performance. It argues that Nkrumah’s discourse, in its focus on… read more
This paper presents a discourse-mythological analysis of the rhetoric of a pioneering Pan-African and Ghana’s independence leader, Kwame Nkrumah, drawing on Ruth Wodak’s discourse-historical approach to critical discourse analysis. The thesis of the paper is that Nkrumah’s discourse, in its… read more
Shi, Xuanzhi and Mark Nartey 2018 Stephen Evans The English Language in Hong Kong: Diachronic and Synchronic PerspectivesAnglo-German Discourse Crossings and Contrasts, Jaworska, Sylvia and Torsten Leuschner (eds.), pp. 162–167 | Review