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Towards a decade of synergising corpus linguistics and critical discourse analysis: A meta-analysis (2019)
Journal Article
Nartey, M., & Mwinlaaru, I. N. (2019). Towards a decade of synergising corpus linguistics and critical discourse analysis: A meta-analysis. Corpora, 14(2), 203-235. https://doi.org/10.3366/cor.2019.0169

The incorporation of corpus linguistics (CL) methods within critical discourse analysis (CDA) has increasingly gathered momentum over the last decade. This paper surveys studies using this triangulated framework, drawing on a database of 121 studies... Read More about Towards a decade of synergising corpus linguistics and critical discourse analysis: A meta-analysis.

Ian Friend - How does a transnational audience factor in character design for professional broadcast animation (2019)
Journal Article
Friend, I. (2019). Ian Friend - How does a transnational audience factor in character design for professional broadcast animation. Animation Studies, 15,

During my animation career, I've found myself working in many areas of animation but most of my production experience lies in preschool television. This can probably be attributed to the fact that most of the animation work produced in the UK is for... Read More about Ian Friend - How does a transnational audience factor in character design for professional broadcast animation.

Formulating emancipatory discourses and reconstructing resistance: A positive discourse analysis of Sukarno’s speech at the first Afro-Asian conference (2019)
Journal Article
Nartey, M., & Ernanda, . (2020). Formulating emancipatory discourses and reconstructing resistance: A positive discourse analysis of Sukarno’s speech at the first Afro-Asian conference. Critical Discourse Studies, 17(1), 22-38. https://doi.org/10.1080/17405904.2019.1617758

In this article, we analyze a seven-page speech delivered by Sukarno, first president of Indonesia, at the opening of the First Asia-Africa Conference where he advocated Afro-Asian unity/ solidarity as the panacea for colonialism, imperialism, and ne... Read More about Formulating emancipatory discourses and reconstructing resistance: A positive discourse analysis of Sukarno’s speech at the first Afro-Asian conference.

"We must unite now or perish!": Kwame Nkrumah's creation of a mythic discourse? (2019)
Journal Article
Nartey, M. (2019). "We must unite now or perish!": Kwame Nkrumah's creation of a mythic discourse?. Journal of Language and Politics, 18(2), 252-271. https://doi.org/10.1075/jlp.17051.nar

This paper presents a discourse-mythological analysis of the rhetoric of a pioneering Pan-African and Ghana's independence leader, Kwame Nkrumah, drawing on Ruth Wodak's discourse-historical approach to critical discourse analysis. The thesis of the... Read More about "We must unite now or perish!": Kwame Nkrumah's creation of a mythic discourse?.

Metaphor and Kwame Nkrumah’s construction of the unite or perish myth: a discourse-mythological analysis (2019)
Journal Article
Nartey, M. (2020). Metaphor and Kwame Nkrumah’s construction of the unite or perish myth: a discourse-mythological analysis. Social Semiotics, 30(5), 646-664. https://doi.org/10.1080/10350330.2019.1568220

This article presents a discourse-mythological analysis of how Kwame Nkrumah, a pioneering Pan-African and Ghana’s independence leader, exploits metaphor to formulate and promote a univocal and an ideologically marked narrative that says Africa must... Read More about Metaphor and Kwame Nkrumah’s construction of the unite or perish myth: a discourse-mythological analysis.