Richmond S Ngula
Biographic Data
| ID | 1534072 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Richmond S Ngula |
| GIVEN NAMES | Richmond S |
| FAMILY NAME | Ngula |
| SIGNATURE | NGULA R S |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Botswana |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-3499-4480 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 7 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 6 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Ideological framing in the public’s response to social media news on the Air India Flight 171 disaster
This study examines the ideological frames that characterized public comments in response to online news on the Air India Flight 171 crash. Drawing on frame theory in discourse studies and a critical discourse analysis approach, the study examines comments from major online news portals in India, the UK, and the US as the public’s response to the plane crash. The findings reveal three main ideologies used by members of the public to make sense of…
Epistemic verb complementation in research articles: A corpus-based approach to the verb suggest in two disciplines
An examination of delegitimation in the activist discourse of Ghana's #FixTheCountry lead convener Oliver Barker-Vormawor
The discursive construction of solidarity by Ghanaian female parliamentarians
Research on issues of women has largely focused attention on, among others, power asymmetries and gender stereotypes, with less emphasis on positive linguistic mechanisms of women. Drawing on a critical discourse analytical approach and using Ghanaian parliamentary debates as data, this paper examines how female members of parliament (MPs) construct solidarity. The paper finds that, first, Ghanaian female MPs construct solidarity by positioning t…
The black hole in science journalism: A study of journalism students’ accommodation strategies of scientific writing
This study examined strategies employed by journalism students to accommodate scientific communication into public news. Data were collected from news articles of 130 journalism students, 130 science-based research articles, 3,990 minutes of interviews between scientists and trainees, and among 25 focal participants. We found that some journalism students could not adequately accommodate scientific articles into news reports due to their passive …
On the grammar of scam: Transitivity, Manipulation and Deception in Scam Emails
This study examines the language of scam, focusing on one key lexicogrammatical system for representing experience, the system of transitivity. The study is informed by systemic functional linguistics theory and is based on a clause-by-clause analysis of forty scam email messages, comprising 860 clauses. The frequency distribution of process types shows that scammers mimic the everyday taken-for-granted construction of experience in discourse in …
The discursive construction of solidarity by Ghanaian female parliamentarians
Research on issues of women has largely focused attention on, among others, power asymmetries and gender stereotypes, with less emphasis on positive linguistic mechanisms of women. Drawing on a critical discourse analytical approach and using Ghanaian parliamentary debates as data, this paper examines how female members of parliament (MPs) construct solidarity. The paper finds that, first, Ghanaian female MPs construct solidarity by positioning t…
An examination of delegitimation in the activist discourse of Ghana's #FixTheCountry lead convener Oliver Barker-Vormawor
On the grammar of scam: Transitivity, Manipulation and Deception in Scam Emails
This study examines the language of scam, focusing on one key lexicogrammatical system for representing experience, the system of transitivity. The study is informed by systemic functional linguistics theory and is based on a clause-by-clause analysis of forty scam email messages, comprising 860 clauses. The frequency distribution of process types shows that scammers mimic the everyday taken-for-granted construction of experience in discourse in …
On the grammar of scam: Transitivity, Manipulation and Deception in Scam Emails
This study examines the language of scam, focusing on one key lexicogrammatical system for representing experience, the system of transitivity. The study is informed by systemic functional linguistics theory and is based on a clause-by-clause analysis of forty scam email messages, comprising 860 clauses. The frequency distribution of process types shows that scammers mimic the everyday taken-for-granted construction of experience in discourse in …
The black hole in science journalism: A study of journalism students’ accommodation strategies of scientific writing
This study examined strategies employed by journalism students to accommodate scientific communication into public news. Data were collected from news articles of 130 journalism students, 130 science-based research articles, 3,990 minutes of interviews between scientists and trainees, and among 25 focal participants. We found that some journalism students could not adequately accommodate scientific articles into news reports due to their passive …
The discursive construction of solidarity by Ghanaian female parliamentarians
Research on issues of women has largely focused attention on, among others, power asymmetries and gender stereotypes, with less emphasis on positive linguistic mechanisms of women. Drawing on a critical discourse analytical approach and using Ghanaian parliamentary debates as data, this paper examines how female members of parliament (MPs) construct solidarity. The paper finds that, first, Ghanaian female MPs construct solidarity by positioning t…
An examination of delegitimation in the activist discourse of Ghana's #FixTheCountry lead convener Oliver Barker-Vormawor
Ideological framing in the public’s response to social media news on the Air India Flight 171 disaster
This study examines the ideological frames that characterized public comments in response to online news on the Air India Flight 171 crash. Drawing on frame theory in discourse studies and a critical discourse analysis approach, the study examines comments from major online news portals in India, the UK, and the US as the public’s response to the plane crash. The findings reveal three main ideologies used by members of the public to make sense of…
Epistemic verb complementation in research articles: A corpus-based approach to the verb suggest in two disciplines
Political science (3 works) · Sociology (3 works) · Critical discourse analysis (2 works) · Discourse Analysis in Language Studies (2 works) · Media studies (2 works) · Media Studies and Communication (2 works) · Psychology (2 works) · Accommodation (1 works) · African history and culture studies (1 works) · African studies and sociopolitical issues (1 works)