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Dr Mark Nartey

Dr Mark Nartey

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Research Overview

I hold The Hong Kong Polytechnic University Distinguished Postdoctoral Fellowship in the Department of English, where I am also a member of the Research Centre for Professional Communication in English (RCPCE). I am an interdisciplinary scholar who investigates how people deploy language in specific spatiotemporal and sociocultural contexts to achieve various aims, including identity construction and negotiation, self-promotion and othering as well as argumentation, resistance and (de)legitimation. I am particularly interested in language and identity, language attitudes and stereotypes, language and diversity and language and/in politics.

The main analytical approaches I adopt are (critical) discourse analysis, critical metaphor analysis and discourse-mythological analysis, combining them with corpus methods and insights from history, communication studies and political science. My research has a critical orientation; therefore, it aims to raise awareness about various complicated constructs in society and to illustrate how research on language use can translate into social activism. My published work has drawn heavily on comparative and interdisciplinary research frameworks, with some exploring phenomena in Ghana, China, the US and the UK.

Education and Academic Qualifications

  • Ph.D. in Applied Linguistics, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong (2019)
  • M.Phil. in Linguistics (Distinction), Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway (2015)
  • B.A. in English and Linguistics (First Class Honors), University of Cape Coast, Ghana (2012)

Teaching Areas

  • (Critical) Discourse Analysis
  • Language, Culture and Society
  • Language and/in Politics
  • Research Methods
  • Semiotic Theory

Research Interests

  • Corpus-Assisted Discourse Studies
  • Communication and Media Studies
  • Language and Diversity
  • Language and Identities
  • Language and/in Politics
  • On Chinese and Other Asian Population Groups in Ghana

Research Output

  1. Nartey, Mark. Political myth-making, populist performance and nationalist resistance: Examining Kwame Nkrumah’s construction of the African unity dream. London & New York: Routledge. Under contract.
  2. Nartey, Mark. (Ed.). Voice, agency and resistance: Emancipatory discourses in action [special issue]. Critical Discourse Studies. In prep.
  3. Henaku, Nancy, Agbozo, Edzordzi, G. & Nartey, Mark. (Eds.). Communicative perspectives on Covid-19 in Ghana. Routledge. In prep.
  4. Mumuni, Eliasu, Nartey, Mark & Pappoe, Ruby, Henaku, Nancy & Agbozo, Edzordzi, G. (Eds.). Communicative perspectives on Ghana’s 2020 electoral politics. Palgrave Macmillan. In prep.
  1. Nartey, Mark. Centering marginalized voices: A discourse analytic study of the Black Lives Matter movement on Twitter. Critical Discourse Studies. Accepted.
  2. Nartey, Mark. Kwame Nkrumah’s construction of ‘the African people’ via the Unite or Perish myth: A discourse-historical analysis of populist discourse. Pragmatics and Society. Accepted.
  3. Nartey, Mark. Advocacy and civic engagement in protest discourse on Twitter: A discourse analytical study of Ghana’s #OccupyFlagstaffHouse and #RedFriday campaigns. Communication and Critical/Cultural Studies. Accepted.
  4. Nartey, Mark. Marginality and otherness: The discursive construction of LGBT issues/persons in the Ghanaian media. Media, Culture & Society. Accepted.
  5. Mwinlaaru, Isaac N. & Nartey, Mark. “Free men we stand under the flag of our land”: African anthems as resistance discourse. Critical Discourse Studies. Accepted.
  6. Nartey, Mark. (2021). Yvonne Nelson and the heroic myth of Yaa Asantewaa: A discourse-mythological case study of a Ghanaian celebrity. Critical Studies in Media Communication 38(3): 255-268.
  7. Nartey, Mark. (2021). A feminist critical discourse analysis of Ghanaian feminist blogs. Feminist Media Studies 21(4): 657-672.
  8. Nartey, Mark & Ladegaard, Hans. J. (2021). Constructing undesirables: A critical discourse analysis of othering of Fulani nomads in the Ghanaian news media. Discourse & Communication 15(2): 184-199.
  9. Yu, Yating & Nartey, Mark. (2021). Constructing the myth of protest masculinity in Chinese English language news media: A critical discourse analysis of the representations of “leftover men”. Gender and Language 15(2): 184-206.
  10. Nartey, Mark. (2020). Voice, agency and identity: A positive discourse analysis of ‘resistance’ in the rhetoric of Kwame Nkrumah. Language & Intercultural Communication 20(2): 193-205.
  11. Nartey, Mark. (2020). Metaphor and Kwame Nkrumah’s construction of the Unite or Perish myth: A discourse-mythological analysis. Social Semiotics 30(5): 646-664.
  12. Nartey, Mark. (2020). A critical metaphor analysis of heroic myth in the discourse of Kwame Nkrumah. CADAAD Journal 12(1): 37-53.
  13. Nartey, Mark & Bhatia, Aditi. (2020). Mythological heroism in the discourse of Kwame Nkrumah. World Englishes 39(4): 581-593.
  14. Nartey, Mark & Ernanda. (2020). Formulating emancipatory discourses and reconstructing resistance: A positive discourse analysis of Sukarno’s speech at the first Afro-Asian conference. Critical Discourse Studies 17(1): 22-38.
  15. Nartey, Mark. (2019). “We must unite now or perish!” Kwame Nkrumah’s creation of a mythic discourse? Journal of Language and Politics 18(2): 252-271.
  16. Nartey, Mark. (2019). “I shall prosecute a ruthless war on these monsters …” A critical metaphor analysis of discourse of resistance in the rhetoric of Kwame Nkrumah. Critical Discourse Studies 16(2): 113-130.
  17. Nartey, Mark & Mwinlaaru, Isaac N. (2019). Towards a decade of synergizing corpus linguistics and critical discourse analysis: A meta-analysis. Corpora 14(2): 203-235. 
  18. Nartey, Mark & Hui, Huang. (2018). Situated identities in the discourse of insurance: A comparative critical discourse analysis of Chinese and British insurance contracts. Discourse, Language & Society 6(2): 119-132.
  19. Nartey, Mark. (2018). Football in computer-mediated discourse: A move analysis of match previews. Linguistik Online 89(2): 37-49.
  20. Nartey, Mark. (2018). Clausal coordination in Gã: The case of nì. Languages 3(3): 1-12.
  21. Nartey, Mark. (2015). Representations of politicians in contemporary Ghanaian hiplife music. CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture 17(4): 1-7.
  22.  Ngula, Richmond S. & Nartey, Mark. (2014). Language corpora: The case for Ghanaian English. 3L: The Southeast Asian Journal of English Language Studies 20(3): 79-92.
  23. Nartey, Mark & Dorgbetor, Nathaniel. (2014). Towards a needs analysis of why students in a Ghanaian university fail the Academic Writing course. Journal of Educational and Social Research 4(6): 167-174.
  24. Nartey, Mark & Yankson, Ferguson E. (2014). A semantic investigation into the use of modal auxiliary verbs in the manifesto of a Ghanaian political party. International Journal of Humanities and Social Science 4(3): 21-30.
  25.  Afful, Joseph B. A. & Nartey, Mark. (2014). Cohesion in the abstracts of undergraduate dissertations: An intra-disciplinary study in a Ghanaian university. Journal of ELT and Applied Linguistics 2(1): 93-108.
  26.  Afful, Joseph B. A. & Nartey, Mark. (2013). ‘Hello sweetie pie’: A sociolinguistic analysis of terms of endearment in a Ghanaian university. The International Journal of Social Sciences 17(1): 92-101.
  27. Nartey, Mark. (2013). A speech act analysis of status updates on facebook: The case of Ghanaian university students. Language in India 13(1): 114-141.
  28. Nartey, Mark. (2013). On conceptualizing documentary linguistics as an independent field of linguistic research: An effective approach to preserving endangered languages. English for Specific Purposes World 41(14): 1-19.
  1. Nartey, Mark. (forthcoming). Deploying discourse as a two-pronged instrument: A critical linguistic analysis of John Mahama’s (alternative) political rhetoric on Covid-19. InN. Henaku, E. Agbozo, & M. Nartey (Eds.). Communicative Perspectives on Covid-19 in Ghana. London & New York: Routledge.
  2. Wong, Victor, Ma, Yuanyi & Nartey, Mark. (2021). Analyzing and interpreting COVID-19-related texts in Chinese: A systemic functional perspective. In W. Wei (Ed.) China’s Contemporary Image and Rhetoric Practice, pp.185-210. Abingdon & New York: Routledge.
  3. Nartey, Mark. (2020). The discourse of Nkrumaism: A corpus-informed study. In B. Yang & W. Li (Eds.) Corpus-based Approaches to Grammar, Media and Health Discourse: Systemic Functional and Other Perspectives, pp. 177-196. Singapore: Springer.
  1. Ma, Yuanyi, Wang, Bo & Nartey, Mark. (2021). Review of Hasan, Ruqaiya, Webster, Jonathan, & Cloran, Carmel (2019) ‘Describing language: Form and function’. Functions of Language. In press.
  2. Shi, Xuanzhi & Nartey, Mark. (2018). Review of Evans, Stephen (2016) ‘The English language in Hong Kong: Diachronic and synchronic perspectives’. Pragmatics and Society 9(1): 163-168.
  3. Nartey, Mark. (2016). Review of Chiluwa, Innocent (2011) ‘Labeling and ideology in the press: A corpus-based critical discourse study of the Niger Delta crisis’. Pragmatics and Society 7(3): 503-506.

Others

 

  • Faculty of Humanities Distinguished Ph.D. Thesis Award – Merit Prize, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University (2020)
  • The Stephen Evans Best Ph.D. Thesis Award, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University (2019)
  • The Stephen Evans Best Paper Award, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University (2018)
  • Best Paper Award, Joint Postgraduate Student Symposium on Language, Culture and Cognition, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University (2017)
  • Certificate of Achievement in Recognition of Publications by the Ghanaian Students Association of the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (2014)
  • Overall Best Faculty of Arts Student, University of Cape Coast (2012)
  • Best Graduating English Student, University of Cape Coast (2012)
  • Best Graduating Linguistics Student, University of Cape Coast (2012)
  • First Prize, The Head of English Department’s Honor Roll, University of Cape Coast (2011)
  • The Humboldt Research Fellowship for Postdoctoral Researchers tenable at Chemnitz University of Technology, Germany (2020) – not taken
  • The Hong Kong Polytechnic University Postdoctoral Research Fellowship (2020)
  • The Hong Kong Ph.D. Fellowship Scheme (2016)
  • The Hong Kong Polytechnic University International Postgraduate Scholarship (2016)
  • M.Phil. Scholarship, The Norwegian Quota Scholarship Scheme (2013)

 

Esteem Measures

  • 2019 – 2020 Member of Scientific Committee, Corpora & Discourse Conference 2020, University of Sussex, UK
  • 2020 – 2021 Member of Scientific Committee, Linguistics Association of Ghana Conference 2021, University of Cape Coast, Ghana
  • 2017 – 2019 Member, Faculty Research Committee, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University
  • 2016 – 2018 President, Association of Ghanaian Scholars in Hong Kong (AGS-HK)
  • 2017 – 2018 English Editor, Hall Editorial Committee, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University Student Halls of Residence
  • 2016 – 2017 Co-editor, Asian Association for Language Assessment (AALA) Student Committee In-Conversation Series

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