Outputs (8)

Constructing a discourse of hope and inspiration: A positive discourse analysis of Joko Widodo’s press statements on COVID-19 (2024)
Journal Article

Using positive discourse analysis as a framework, this article examines Indonesian President Joko Widodo’s press statements on the COVID-19 pandemic, with a focus on how he constructed a message of hope and inspiration. The analysis demonstrates that... Read More about Constructing a discourse of hope and inspiration: A positive discourse analysis of Joko Widodo’s press statements on COVID-19.

Communication and Electoral Politics in Ghana: Interrogating Transnational Technology, Discourse and Multimodalities (2024)
Book

The discursive construction of solidarity by Ghanaian female parliamentarians (2023)
Journal 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 Ghanaia... Read More about The discursive construction of solidarity by Ghanaian female parliamentarians.

Examining the communication of female political leaders in the Global South (2023)
Journal 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 Americ... Read More about Examining the communication of female political leaders in the Global South.

The construction of agency in the discourse of Barbados' prime minister Mia Mottley (2023)
Journal 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) con... Read More about The construction of agency in the discourse of Barbados' prime minister Mia Mottley.

A critical discourse analysis of resistance to climate change in China’s English-language news media (2023)
Journal Article

Climate change has become a global issue, but no study has examined the discursive construction of resistance to climate change as part of crisis response in the media. To fill this gap, this study employs Wodak’s discourse-historical approach to exa... Read More about A critical discourse analysis of resistance to climate change in China’s English-language news media.

Communicative perspectives on COVID-19 in Ghana: At the intersection of culture, science, religion and politics (2023)
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This collection explores the communicative dimensions of the COVID-19 pandemic in Ghana, redressing the absence of perspectives from Africa and the Global South in pandemic discourses and highlighting the importance of considering the impact of local... Read More about Communicative perspectives on COVID-19 in Ghana: At the intersection of culture, science, religion and politics.

Women’s voice, agency and resistance in Nigerian blogs: A feminist critical discourse analysis (2023)
Journal Article

This paper contributes to the burgeoning literature on how women construct resistance, project their agency and sculpt a positive identity for themselves. It employs feminist critical discourse analysis as a framework to examine how Nigerian blogs on... Read More about Women’s voice, agency and resistance in Nigerian blogs: A feminist critical discourse analysis.