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Item Grounding Twenty-first-Century Public Relations Praxis in Aristotelian Ethos(JOURNAL OF PUBLIC RELATIONS RESEARCH, 2019) Ofori, D.M.By grounding public relations praxis in Aristotelian ethos, practitioners can function as liaison officers with balanced perspectives, capable of co creating meaning with both client organizations and their publics between whom experts are hired to facilitate mutually beneficial relationships. This approach locates persuasion at the nexus of speaker ethos in the public relations process. It allows practitioners to balance their commitment to the ethics of their profession with loyalty to clients, while empowering audi ences (organizations and their publics) to function as the final arbiters of any courses of action proposed to them. Moreover, because the approach enables practitioners, based on their credible ethos, to participate in orga nizational decision-making, it has the potential to transfer their ethical worldview to client organizations. Ultimately, the central theoretical con tribution of this essay is an alternative approach to public relations praxis founded on an analysis of Aristotle’s notion of phronesis, arête, and eunoia.Item Grounding Twenty-first-Century Public Relations Praxis in Aristotelian Ethos(JOURNAL OF PUBLIC RELATIONS RESEARCH, 2019-06-27) Ofori, D.M.By grounding public relations praxis in Aristotelian ethos, practitioners can function as liaison officers with balanced perspectives, capable of cocreating meaning with both client organizations and their publics between whom experts are hired to facilitate mutually beneficial relationships. This approach locates persuasion at the nexus of speaker ethos in the public relations process. It allows practitioners to balance their commitment to the ethics of their profession with loyalty to clients, while empowering audiences (organizations and their publics) to function as the final arbiters of any courses of action proposed to them. Moreover, because the approach enables practitioners, based on their credible ethos, to participate in organizational decision-making, it has the potential to transfer their ethical worldview to client organizations. Ultimately, the central theoretical contribution of this essay is an alternative approach to public relations praxis founded on an analysis of Aristotle’s notion of phronesis, arête, and eunoiaItem Making Meaning of the Colonial Experience: Reading Tings Fall Apart through the Prism of Alfred Schutz’s Phenomenology(Janus Head, 2016) Ofori, D.M.Tis essay ofers a Schutzian reading of Achebe’s Tings Fall Apart, arguing that the so-called critical ambivalence in Chinua Achebe’s hermeneutic of the colonial experience makes sense if situated within his lived experiences in colonial Nigeria. Grounding its interpretation of Achebe’s meaning-making of the colonial experience in Schutz’s phenomenology, the essay begins with a close reading of the novel itself, highlighting signifcant areas of ambivalence. Next, it explicates Schutz’s (1967) constructs of intersubjectivity and phenomenology of literature. In the next section in which Achebe’s biography is examined, an attempt is made to show how a Schutzian reading of Achebe’s social relationships can help us understand his account of the colonial experience as represented in his frst novel. Ultimately, the paper concludes by noting that the ambivalence that charactterizes Tings Fall Apart refects the author’s realism and investment in both the African and European cultures he sought to critique.Item own this language that everybody speaks Ghanaians’ attitude toward the English language(John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2012) Ofori, D.M.Based on interviews conducted in ten Catholic churches of the Ghanaian capital, Accra, the paper offers a profile of English use in Ghana and reports on the attitudes of Ghanaians toward English as the official language of their country. The results reveal the influential role English plays in the different settings of Ghanaian communication as well as the high esteem afforded to the English lan guage by the majority of Ghanaian respondents. Most of them cited the numer ous benefits that English, as a language of wider communication, brings to the individual speaker and the country.Item The Papal Visit and the Rhetoric of Conciliation: An Epideictic Perspective(2017) Ofori, D.M.Using the epideictic as a hermeneutic entrance, this paper argues that Pope Francis' rhetoric of conciliation during his visit to the United States in September 2015 resonated with a majority of Americans because he identified and consubstantiated with American society, American values, and American people in both word and deed. Casting himself as a brother and friend with profound knowledge of American history and cultural realities, the Holy Father refrained from pontificating and criticizing; rather, he chose the path of fearless dialogue amplified with performative rhetoric.