Research Catalog

Title

Political discourse in emergent, fragile, and failed democracies / Daniel Ochieng Orwenjo, Omondi Oketch, Asiru Hameed Tunde, [editors].

Publication

Hershey, PA : Information Science Reference, 2016.

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Additional Authors

• Orwenjo, Daniel Ochieng
• Oketch, Omondi, 1970-
• Tunde, Asiru Hameed, 1982-

Description

xxiv, 412 pages; 29 cm.

Summary

"This book examines the effects of unstable democratic systems of government in modern society, providing an imperative analysis on political communications from such nations and highlighting real-world examples on the constraints seen in malfunctioning or emerging governments"--

Series Statement

Advances in electronic government, digital divide, and regional development (AEGDDRD) book series, 2326-9103

Uniform Title

Advances in electronic government, digital divide, and regional development.

Subject

• New democracies > Case studies
• Failed states > Case studies
• Political culture > Case studies
• Discourse analysis > Political aspects > Case studies
• Discourse analysis > Political aspects
• Failed states
• New democracies
• Political culture

Genre/Form

Case studies.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

The verbal fuel for ethnic hatred and political violence in Kenya / Tom Onditi Luoch -- Sarcasm and irony as a political weapon in Ukraine : amatuer propaganda on social networks / Natalia Knoblock -- Of drag and push democracies : the construction of Zimbabwe as a failed-partially resuscitated state in popular songs / Mickias Musiyiwa & Marianna W. Visser -- Real-name registration regulation in China : an examination of Chinese netizens' discussions about censorship, privacy, and political freedom / Kenneth C.C. Yang and Yowei Kang -- Tearing up nationalist discourses? : an appraisal analysis of representations of Joice Mujuru and the ZANU PF factionalism dialectic in Zimbabwean newspapers / Collen Sabao and Marianna Visser -- Politics and promises : a multimodal social semiotic interpretation of political party emblems and slogans as discourse of hope in a democratic Nigeria / Ikenna Kamalu -- Argumentation and appraisal in divergent Zimbabwean parliamentary debates / Ernest Jakaza and Marianna W. Visser -- Media coverage of the 2009 Afghan presidential election / Christopher Strelluf -- A critical political discourse analysis of president Goodluck Jonathan's declaration of state of emergency on Adamawa, Borno And Yobe States of Nigeria / Abaya Angulu Samson -- ISIS rhetoric for the creation of the Ummah / Amaryllis Maria Georges -- Metaphors for nation and war in Chinua Achebe's memoir / Onwu Inya -- Multilayered political systems and the politics of monitoring local government programmes for engendered service delivery : a case of Apac district in Northern Uganda / David Mugambe Mpiima -- Impediments to Nigerian democracy : ambivalent role of vigilante groups in maintaining security in the wake of the Boko Haram insurgence in northern Nigeria / Ibrahim Sani Kankara -- Ethnic stereotyping on Kenyan blog sites in the 2013 political elections : a spurious harbinger of ethnic discord / Wendo Nabea -- Symbols and not manifestoes are the selling point here : a multimodal critical discourse analysis of two contemporary Nigerian political parties' images and slogans / Adegboye Adeyanju -- Legislating for a de jure one-party state in 1982 and "party hopping" in 2012 : reconstructing elite discourse on political parties in Kenya / Sammy Gakero Gachigua -- Shades of the GNU in Zimbabwe (2009-13) : linguistic discourse analyses of representations of transitional politics in Zimbabwean newspapers / Collen Sabao -- On the threshold of democratic fragility : a macrospeech act explication of media representation of the Nigerian 2011 post-presidential election news reports / Asiru Hameed Tunde and Daniel Ochieng Orwenjo -- Revolutionary politics and theatre of semiotics : challenges and solutions in northern Nigeria / Esther Akumbo Nyam -- Are we all equal? : immunity of parliament members and criminal responsibility of cabinet members in Greece / Konstantinos Margaritis.

Call Number

ReCAP 22-9677

ISBN

• 9781522500810
• 1522500812

LCCN

2015051299

OCLC

936010539

Title

Political discourse in emergent, fragile, and failed democracies / Daniel Ochieng Orwenjo, Omondi Oketch, Asiru Hameed Tunde, [editors].

Publisher

Hershey, PA : Information Science Reference, 2016.

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

Advances in electronic government, digital divide, and regional development (AEGDDRD) book series, 2326-9103

Advances in electronic government, digital divide, and regional development.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Note

ED: TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF KENYA. COLLECTION OF NEW ARTICLES W/ FOCUS ON AFRICA.

Added Author

Orwenjo, Daniel Ochieng, editor.

Oketch, Omondi, 1970- editor.

Tunde, Asiru Hameed, 1982- editor.

Research Call Number

ReCAP 22-9677