Outputs (10)

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.

“Can I have a look?”: The discursive management of victims’ personal space during police first response call-outs to domestic abuse incidents (2023)
Journal Article

The complexities of domestic abuse as both a lived experience and a crime generate unique communicative challenges at the scene of emergency police call-outs. Space is a prominent and complex feature of these ecounters, entailing a juxtaposition of t... Read More about “Can I have a look?”: The discursive management of victims’ personal space during police first response call-outs to domestic abuse incidents.

Communicative perspectives on COVID-19 in Ghana: At the intersection of culture, science, religion and politics (2023)
Book

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.

The detriment that error production creates is affected by non-L1 speakers’ linguistic group membership (2023)
Journal Article

We present three studies that investigate the effect of group-level language ability expectations on language ability judgements. Study 1 identifies expected English-language ability levels that native English speakers’ have for a number of non-nativ... Read More about The detriment that error production creates is affected by non-L1 speakers’ linguistic group membership.

Voice, Agency and Resistance: Emancipatory Discourses in Action (2023)
Book

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

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.