Political Communication in Sub-Saharan Africa, Volume II

Governance and Language Policy
1. Auflage 2024
ISBN: 978-3-031-44319-0
Verlag: Springer Nature Switzerland

Buch, Englisch, 297 Seiten, Format (B × H): 153 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 536 g

This book examines the role of language and communication in transforming politics and governance in southern Africa. Interdisciplinary in approach, it covers themes including marketing, political advertising, activism, violence, elections, and the media. It combines theoretical works with individual case studies on Lesotho, Tanzania, South Africa, Zimbabwe, Nigeria and Ghana. It will appeal to all those interested in public policy, governance and political communication, as well as linguistics, media studies and African politics.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Mavengano, Esther

Mhute, Isaac

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Medien- und Kommunikationswissenschaften Kommunikationswissenschaften
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Einzelne Sprachen & Sprachfamilien
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Regierungspolitik Innen-, Bildungs- und Bevölkerungspolitik
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Kultur Politische Kommunikation und Partizipation
• Sozialwissenschaften Medien- und Kommunikationswissenschaften Medienwissenschaften

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Introduction

2. Sub-Saharan Africa and France: Linguistic Familiarity and Policy Challenges

3. The place of political discourse in the Lesotho language policy

4. How compassionate rhetoric can play for or against political transformation in Tanzania

5. Language media and communication for political transformation in Zimbabwe

6. What one has reason to value: language transformation agenda in South Africa from the capability approach perspective

7. Cartooning as a political rhetoric against army and police brutality in Nigeria

8. Guardians of the revolution?: A critical discourse analysis of General Chiwenga’s coup speech

9. Language and morality for integral humanism in Africa

10. Language differences and communication for political transformation in Sub-Saharan Africa

11. Judas Iscariotism and Zimbabwe ppposition politics: deceit, fear of difference and language of misrepresentation

12. Local languages and critical pedagogies for university students in Zimbabwe: the case of students’ unions

13. From consumption to production: constructing transformation and emancipation in the Obidient Movement

14. Populism and political transformation in Nigeria: a critical discourse analysis of President Buhari’s selected speeches

15. The sociolinguistic drama of language in a multilingual South African context

16. Duplicitous language and populous politics in Sub-Saharan Africa: African authors’ grappling with truth and justice

17. Rhetorical empathy in Ghanaian presidential crisis communication

18. Conclusion

Über Autor(innen)

Isaac Mhute is Associate Professor in the Department of Language, Literature and Culture Studies, Midlands State University, Zimbabwe

Esther Mavengano is Lecturer in the Department of English and Media Studies, Great Zimbabwe University.