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Communication and electoral politics in Ghanainterrogating transnational technology, discourse and multimodalities /

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Communication and electoral politics in Ghanaedited by Eliasu Mumuni ... [et al.].
Reminder of title:	interrogating transnational technology, discourse and multimodalities /
other author:	Mumuni, Eliasu.
Published:	Cham :Springer International Publishing :2024.
Description:	xvii, 187 p. :ill., digital ;24 cm.
Contained By:	Springer Nature eBook
Subject:	ElectionsGhana.
Subject:	GhanaEconomic conditions1979-
Online resource:	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-42771-8
ISBN:	9783031427718$q(electronic bk.)

Communication and electoral politics in Ghanainterrogating transnational technology, discourse and multimodalities /
Communication and electoral politics in Ghanainterrogating transnational technology, discourse and multimodalities /[electronic resource] :edited by Eliasu Mumuni ... [et al.]. - Cham :Springer International Publishing :2024. - xvii, 187 p. :ill., digital ;24 cm.

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.

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. The collection accounts for local influences on election discourse and illustrates how the specific context within which such discourse is enacted informs the linguistic, multimodal and technological choices of sociopolitical actors. The non-Western perspective it adopts extends work on political communication in a context underexplored in the literature and contributes to ongoing critical conversations on the decolonial and postcolonial aspects of communication studies. Drawing on a variety of data, including political speeches, political cartoons, election campaigns and social media posts, the volume not only addresses the dearth of scholarly work on African political communication, but also demonstrates the complexity of such scholarship and its importance to a comprehensive understanding of contemporary research on language and politics. This book enriches academic and public discussions on the future of democracy across the globe from a linguistic or communication perspective, expands scholarly work on African rhetoric and underscores the importance of engaging with diverse knowledge systems, especially non-Western epistemologies. 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.

ISBN: 9783031427718$q(electronic bk.)

Standard No.: 10.1007/978-3-031-42771-8doiSubjects--Topical Terms:

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Elections
--Ghana.Subjects--Geographical Terms:

434901
Ghana
--Economic conditions--1979-

LC Class. No.: DT510.62

Dewey Class. No.: 320.9667

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