Voice, Agency and Resistance (eBook, ePUB)

Emancipatory Discourses in Action
Redaktion: Nartey, Mark

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Drawing on data from Africa, Latin America, North America, and Arab Levant, this book demonstrates how members of marginalized (disempowered) groups sculpt a positive image for themselves, engage in solidarity formation for group empowerment and (re)construct their experiences in a manner that gives them voice, agency and positive identity.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 128
• Erscheinungstermin: 31. März 2023
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781000851809
• Artikelnr.: 67339971

Autorenporträt

Mark Nartey is Lecturer in English Language and Linguistics at the Bristol Centre for Linguistics, University of the West of England. 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 has published extensively in applied linguistics, discourse analysis, and communication/media studies. His recent monograph published by Routledge examines the interplay of political myth-making, nationalist resistance, and populist performance.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction-Investigating emancipatory discourses in action: the need
for an interventionist approach and an activist-scholar posture 2. Women's
online advocacy campaigns for political participation in Nigeria and Ghana
3. 'The rapist is you': semiotics and regional recontextualizations of the
feminist protest 'a rapist in your way' in Latin America 4. Social media
discourses of feminist protest from the Arab Levant: digital mirroring and
transregional dialogue 5. Centering marginalized voices: a discourse
analytic study of the Black Lives Matter movement on Twitter 6. Negotiating
the limits of teacher agency: constructed constraints vs. capacity to act
in preservice teachers' descriptions of teaching emergent bilingual
learners 7. 'Free men we stand under the flag of our land': a transitivity
analysis of African anthems as discourses of resistance against colonialism