Browsing by Author "Sarfo-Kantankah, Kwabena Sarfo"

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Apologia, image repair and rhetoric in the defence of electoral defeat

Sarfo-Kantankah, Kwabena Sarfo (University of Cape Coast, 2019)

Using the concepts of apologia, image repair and rhetoric, this paper examines the strategies employed by a former president of the Republic of Ghana to simultaneously maintain his reputation after losing the 2016 Ghanaian ...
It’s about people: identifying the focus of parliamentary debates through a corpus-driven approach

Sarfo-Kantankah, Kwabena Sarfo (University of Cape Coast, 2018)

The aim of this paper is two-fold: (1) to demonstrate the usefulness of corpus-driven methods in determining a research focus, and (2) to show that ‘people’-focussing is a key feature of UK and Ghanaian parliamentary ...
The use of actually in a non-native English parliamentary context: a corpus study

Sarfo-Kantankah, Kwabena Sarfo; Yussif, Ben Kudus (University of Cape Coast, 2019)

This paper explores the syntactic and pragmatic uses of actually as a discourse marker in Ghanaian parliamentary debates. Employing a corpus methodological approach, the paper uses a 1.9 million-word corpus of Ghanaian ...

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