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Voice, Agency and Resistance: Emancipatory Discourses in Action (2023)
Book
Nartey, M. (Ed.). (2023). Voice, Agency and Resistance: Emancipatory Discourses in Action. Taylor & Francis (Routledge)

Drawing on data from Africa, Latin America, North America, and the 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... Read More about Voice, Agency and Resistance: Emancipatory Discourses in Action.

A discourse analytic study of #FixTheCountry on Ghanaian Twitter (2023)
Journal Article
Nartey, M., & Yu, Y. (2023). A discourse analytic study of #FixTheCountry on Ghanaian Twitter. Social Media and Society, 9(1), https://doi.org/10.1177/20563051221147328

This article analyzes tweets produced during the “fix the country” campaign on Ghanaian Twitter. It illustrates how the affordances of social media can empower campaigners and how linguistic choices, even on digital platforms, can be conditioned by s... Read More about A discourse analytic study of #FixTheCountry on Ghanaian Twitter.

Kwame Nkrumah’s construction of ‘the African people’ via the Unite or Perish myth: A discourse-historical analysis of populist performance (2022)
Journal Article
Nartey, M. (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), 605-624. https://doi.org/10.1075/ps.19023.nar

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 argu... Read More about Kwame Nkrumah’s construction of ‘the African people’ via the Unite or Perish myth: A discourse-historical analysis of populist performance.

Cohesion in the abstracts of undergraduate dissertations: An intra-disciplinary study in a Ghanaian University (2014)
Journal Article
Afful, J. B. A., & Nartey, M. (2014). Cohesion in the abstracts of undergraduate dissertations: An intra-disciplinary study in a Ghanaian University. Journal of ELT and Applied Linguistics, 2(1), 93-108

Following the work of Santos (1996), studies on research articles and dissertation abstracts have elicited considerable attention. The present research examines grammatical cohesion in the Language and Literature abstracts of undergraduate dissertati... Read More about Cohesion in the abstracts of undergraduate dissertations: An intra-disciplinary study in a Ghanaian University.

‘Hello sweetie pie’: A sociolinguistic analysis of terms of endearment in a Ghanaian university (2013)
Journal Article
Nartey, M. (2013). ‘Hello sweetie pie’: A sociolinguistic analysis of terms of endearment in a Ghanaian university. International Journal of Social Sciences, 17(1), 92-101

Following Brown and Gilman's (1960) study, sociolinguists have shown an increasing interest in the use of address forms in various social milieus such as religion, politics, media and academia. Using a two-pronged conceptual framework derived from in... Read More about ‘Hello sweetie pie’: A sociolinguistic analysis of terms of endearment in a Ghanaian university.