Political Myth-Making, Nationalist Resistance and Populist Performance - Examining Kwame Nkrumah s Construction Promotion of African Dream

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.

List of contents

1. Introduction 2. Discourse and Mythology 3. Analytical and Methodological Procedures 4. The Unite or Perish Myth as a Discourse of Nationalist Resistance 5. Metaphor and the Unite or Perish Myth 6. The Unite or Perish Myth as Populist Performance 7. Conclusion

About the author

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.

Summary

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.

Product details

• Authors: Mark Nartey, Mark (University of the West of England Nartey
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.11.2022
• EAN: 9781032109169
• ISBN: 978-1-0-3210916-9
• No. of pages: 188
• Series: Routledge Research in Language and Communication
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative linguistics; Ethnic Studies, Sociology, Discourse Analysis, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / Sociolinguistics, Africa, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / General, POLITICAL SCIENCE / World / African, Sociolinguistics, Colonialism & imperialism, Regional Studies, Comparative Politics, Colonialism and imperialism, Regional / International studies, African History, Semantics, discourse analysis, stylistics, Ethnic studies / Ethnicity