Discourse Analysis of the Language of Presidential Campaign in Ghana. Evidence from the 2008 General Elections

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dc.contributor.advisorAgyekum, K.
dc.contributor.advisorAmuzu, E.K.
dc.contributor.authorMichael, A.
dc.date.accessioned2014-07-29T11:24:43Z
dc.date.accessioned2017-10-13T22:25:21Z
dc.date.available2014-07-29T11:24:43Z
dc.date.available2017-10-13T22:25:21Z
dc.date.issued2013-06
dc.descriptionThesis (MPHIL)-University of Ghana, 2013
dc.description.abstractThe work discusses the use of stylistic devices and other devices in presidential campaign messages in Ghana. The author selects three of the 2008 presidential campaign speeches of Prof. Atta Mills, Dr. Papa Kwesi Nduom and Nana Akuffo- Addo the then presidential candidates of National Democratic Congress, Conversion People’s Party, and New Patriotic Party respectively for the analysis. The analysis is grounded on Fairclough’s (1995) in Critical Discourse Analysis, claiming that there is a close link across text, discourse practice, and socio-cultural practice. It also employs Walton’s (1997) observation in Propaganda Discourse Analysis, which claims that propaganda discourse is indifferent to logical reasoning. It employs one-sided argumentation, persuasive dialogue, emotive language and persuasive definitions. The work reveals that there is a link between the language (devices) employed by the candidates, and socio-cultural practices of Ghanaians. It also reveals that Ghanaian political campaign is audience-driven. The stylistic devices employed by the candidates include historical allusion, metaphor, anaphora and repetition, intertextuality, simile, personification, hyperbole and rhetorical question. The other devices deployed by the candidates include actor description, use of virtue words, polarization “We-They” categorization, vagueness, proof surrogate, ad hominem, emotive expression, appeal to masses, number game rhetoric, national self-glorification, downplayers, code-switching and promise. All the other devices are propagandistic in nature except code-switching and promise.en_US
dc.format.extentix, 128p.
dc.identifier.urihttp://197.255.68.203/handle/123456789/5241
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.publisherUniversity of Ghanaen_US
dc.rights.holderUniversity of Ghana
dc.titleDiscourse Analysis of the Language of Presidential Campaign in Ghana. Evidence from the 2008 General Electionsen_US
dc.typeThesisen_US

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