Mark Nartey

Gebundenes Buch

Political Myth-making, Nationalist Resistance and Populist Performance

Examining Kwame Nkrumah's Construction and Promotion of the African Dream

Beschreibung

Using the socio-political discourse of Kwame Nkrumah, a pioneering Pan-Africanist and Ghana's independence leader, Nartey investigates the notion of political myth-making in a context underexplored in the literature.

Autor

Mark Nartey is Lecturer in English Language and Linguistics at the Bristol Centre for Linguistics, University of the West of England. He studied in Ghana, Norway, and Hong Kong. He is an interdisciplinary scholar who specializes in corpus-assisted discourse studies, with a focus on issues at the intersection of language, culture, and society. He investigates how people deploy language in specific spatiotemporal and socio-cultural contexts to achieve various aims, including identity construction, self-promotion, and othering as well as argumentation, resistance, and (de)legitimation. He has published extensively in applied linguistics, discourse analysis, and communication/media studies.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 202
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. November 2022
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 240mm x 161mm x 16mm
• Gewicht: 473g
• ISBN-13: 9781032109169
• ISBN-10: 1032109165
• Artikelnr.: 64628057