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Situated identities in the discourse of insurance: A comparative critical discourse analysis of Chinese and British insurance contracts (2018)
Journal Article
Nartey, M., & Huang, H. (2018). Situated identities in the discourse of insurance: A comparative critical discourse analysis of Chinese and British insurance contracts. Language, Discourse & Society, 6(2), 119-132

This paper is a comparative critical discourse analysis of Chinese and British insurance contracts. It analyses the similarities and differences in the identities that emerge from the situatedness of the insured and the insurer in the contracts in or... Read More about Situated identities in the discourse of insurance: A comparative critical discourse analysis of Chinese and British insurance contracts.

‘I shall prosecute a ruthless war on these monsters … ’: A critical metaphor analysis of discourse of resistance in the rhetoric of Kwame Nkrumah (2018)
Journal Article
Nartey, M. (2019). ‘I shall prosecute a ruthless war on these monsters … ’: A critical metaphor analysis of discourse of resistance in the rhetoric of Kwame Nkrumah. Critical Discourse Studies, 16(2), 113-130. https://doi.org/10.1080/17405904.2018.1535987

In recent years, studies on discourses of resistance in politics have become prevalent, focusing mainly on the language of radical movements and rebel groups, but not the discourses on colonialism, imperialism, and repression which can be considered... Read More about ‘I shall prosecute a ruthless war on these monsters … ’: A critical metaphor analysis of discourse of resistance in the rhetoric of Kwame Nkrumah.

Football in computer-mediated discourse: A move analysis of match previews (2018)
Journal Article
Nartey, M. (2018). Football in computer-mediated discourse: A move analysis of match previews. Linguistik Online, 89(2), https://doi.org/10.13092/lo.89.4274

In the last couple of decades, linguistic enquiry into internet genres has become prevalent, resulting in the investigation of internet genres such as live-text commentary, weblogs, online news/news websites, and social network sites. In tandem with... Read More about Football in computer-mediated discourse: A move analysis of match previews.

Clausal coordination in Gã: The case of nì (2018)
Journal Article
Nartey, M. (2018). Clausal coordination in Gã: The case of nì. Languages, 3(1), Article 3. https://doi.org/10.3390/languages3010003

This paper analyses the communicative functions of the Gã (Niger–Congo, Kwa branch) clausal connective nì, roughly corresponding to English ‘and’, drawing on Wilson and Sperber’s (1995; 2004) relevance theory. The study demonstrates that nì is a conj... Read More about Clausal coordination in Gã: The case of nì.