1st Edition
Voice, Agency and Resistance Emancipatory Discourses in Action
1. Introduction—Investigating emancipatory discourses in action: the need for an interventionist approach and an activist-scholar posture
Mark Nartey
2. Women’s online advocacy campaigns for political participation in Nigeria and Ghana
Innocent Chiluwa
3. ‘The rapist is you’: semiotics and regional recontextualizations of the feminist protest ‘a rapist in your way’ in Latin America
Carolina Pérez-Arredondo and Camila Cárdenas-Neira
4. Social media discourses of feminist protest from the Arab Levant: digital mirroring and transregional dialogue
Eleonora Esposito and Francesco L. Sinatora
5. Centering marginalized voices: a discourse analytic study of the Black Lives Matter movement on Twitter
Mark Nartey
6. Negotiating the limits of teacher agency: constructed constraints vs. capacity to act in preservice teachers’ descriptions of teaching emergent bilingual learners
Amber N. Warren and Natalia A. Ward
7. ‘Free men we stand under the flag of our land’: a transitivity analysis of African anthems as discourses of resistance against colonialism
Isaac N. Mwinlaaru and Mark Nartey
Biography
Mark Nartey is Lecturer in English Language and Linguistics at the Bristol Centre for Linguistics, University of the West of England. He is an interdisciplinary scholar who specializes in corpus-assisted discourse studies, with a focus on issues at the intersection of language, culture, and society. He has published extensively in applied linguistics, discourse analysis, and communication/media studies. His recent monograph published by Routledge examines the interplay of political myth-making, nationalist resistance, and populist performance.
