Communication and Electoral Politics in Ghana: Interrogating Transnational Technology, Discourse and Multimodalities

ISBN-13: 9783031427701 / Angielski

Eliasu Mumuni; Mark Nartey; Ruby Pappoe

Spis treści

Chapter 1. (Introduction) Election discourse in Africa: Some critical considerations.- Chapter 2. Digital rhetoric of pandemic elections: Toward multilingual multimodal information design.- Chapter 3. Metaphors and metonymies in Akosua cartoons in the Daily Guide on Ghana’s electoral politics: A cognitive linguistic approach.- Chapter 4. An examination of the communicative functions of Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo’s inaugural addresses.- Chapter 5. Political economy of vigilantism in Ghana’s 2020 general election.- Chapter 6. Social media, and electoral disagreements in Ghana’s election 2020.- Chapter 7. Dialogic communication on digital platforms as public relations technique: A case of two political parties in Ghana.- Chapter 8. Direct address and ethical performance of political discourse: An analysis of Naana Jane Opoku-Agyemang’s inauguration speech.- Chapter 9. (Afterword) Democracy, education, and public scholarship.

O autorze

Eliasu Mumuni (Ph.D.) is a Senior Lecturer and the Head of the Department for Communication, Innovation and Technology at the University for Development Studies, Ghana. He is also a Fulbright Scholar at the Appalachian State University.

Mark Nartey (Ph.D.) is Lecturer in English Language and Linguistics at the University of the West of England.

Ruby Pappoe (Ph.D.) is a Teaching Assistant Professor in Technical Writing at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill.

Nancy Henaku (Ph.D.) is a Lecturer at the Department of English, University of Ghana.

G. Edzordzi Agbozo (Ph.D.) is an Assistant Professor of English at the University of North Carolina Wilmington.

Blurb

This book explores issues at the intersection of communication and African electoral politics, taking Ghana's 2020 general election as a focus of investigation.

This interdisciplinary volume redresses gaps in the literature by highlighting the relevance of language and communication to electoral politics in Sub-Saharan Africa in the period of a global pandemic. Besides accounting for local influences, the collection demonstrates how election discourse can take on unique properties of specific transnational contexts within which it is conceived and performed. Additionally, the non-Western perspective it offers is relevant in highlighting how unique or important socio-political situations can shape language use in specific local contexts and give socio-political actors an argumentative advantage in promoting their objectives. By examining how the communicative and linguistic choices made in election discourse are conditioned by culture-specific politics, the volume sheds light on how electioneering communications are most persuasively narrativized when they capitalize on local sentiment and language features characteristic of local communities and audiences. To this end, the edited collection is timely and contributes not only to a comprehensive understanding of political communication and the interplay of campaign discourse, election propaganda and presidential rhetoric, but also holds implications for Africa’s current and future political systems and illustrates the important role of language/discourse in the decolonization of political processes.

Eliasu Mumuni (Ph.D.) is a Senior Lecturer and the Head of the Department for Communication, Innovation and Technology at the University for Development Studies, Ghana. He is also a Fulbright Scholar at the Appalachian State University.

Mark Nartey (Ph.D.) is Lecturer in English Language and Linguistics at the University of the West of England.

Ruby Pappoe (Ph.D.) is a Teaching Assistant Professor in Technical Writing at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill.

Nancy Henaku (Ph.D.) is a Lecturer at the Department of English, University of Ghana.

G. Edzordzi Agbozo (Ph.D.) is an Assistant Professor of English at the University of North Carolina Wilmington.