Mark Nartey
List of John Benjamins publications in which Mark Nartey is involved.
Journals
ISSN 0929-998X | E‑ISSN 1569‑9765
Title
Political discourse analysis of female political leaders in the Global South
Edited by Mark Nartey
Special issue of Journal of Language and Politics 23:1 (2024) vi, 153 pp.
2024 Examining the communication of female political leaders in the Global South Political discourse analysis of female political leaders in the Global South, Nartey, Mark (ed.), pp. 1–20 | Article
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
2024 The construction of agency in the discourse of Barbados’ prime minister Mia Mottley Political discourse analysis of female political leaders in the Global South, Nartey, Mark (ed.), pp. 45–66 | Article
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
2024 The discursive construction of solidarity by Ghanaian female parliamentarians Political 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
2023 Legitimation in revolutionary discourse: A critical examination of the discourse of Jerry John Rawlings Journal of Language and Politics 22:1, pp. 66–86 | Article
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
2022 Kwame Nkrumah’s construction of ‘the African people’ via the Unite or Perish myth: A discourse-historical analysis of populist performance Pragmatics and Society 13:4, pp. 605–624 | Article
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
2019 “We must unite now or perish!”: Kwame Nkrumah’s creation of a mythic discourse? Journal of Language and Politics 18:2, pp. 252–271 | Article
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
2018 Stephen Evans The English Language in Hong Kong: Diachronic and Synchronic Perspectives Anglo-German Discourse Crossings and Contrasts, Jaworska, Sylvia and Torsten Leuschner (eds.), pp. 162–167 | Review
