John Ganaah

Biographic Data

ID4104398
NAMEJohn Ganaah
GIVEN NAMESJohn
FAMILY NAMEGanaah
SIGNATUREGANAAH J
AFFILIATIONSHong Kong Polytechnic University
ORCID0000-0003-2918-8521
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS6
TOTAL CITATIONS10
WORKS AS AUTHOR6
WORKS AS EDITOR0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2023
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2026
H-INDEX2

  • The emotional labour of concession

    John Ganaah, Rachel Thompson et al.ARTICLESocial Semiotics2026

    Concession speeches are often seen as mere formalities of defeat. This study argues they are potent tools of emotional governance. Through a critical discourse analysis of Mahamudu Bawumia’s 2024 concession speech in Ghana, we demonstrate how emotive language is strategically deployed to manage post-election turbulence. In a climate of acute political tension, Bawumia’s rhetoric deliberately countered public ambivalence, despair, and animosity by…

  • Jerry John Rawlings’ revolutionary identity rhetoric

    Open AccessJohn GanaahARTICLEQuarterly Journal of Speech2026

    The frequent deployment of ideographs in the rhetoric of social actors often marks them as agents of societal change and political transformation. This paper employs postcolonial theory and ideographic criticism to explore how Jerry John Rawlings, Ghana’s revolutionary leader, strategically utilized ideographs to shape his identity during the pivotal revolutions that led to the establishment of an extended military regime. The study contends that…

  • Political othering and polarisation in Nigeria’s online electoral discourse

    John Ganaah, Godswill Uchechukwu Chigbu et al.ARTICLESocial Semiotics2025References: 17

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  • Ethnic othering in Nigeria’s electoral discourse

    Sopuruchi Christian Aboh, John Ganaah et al.ARTICLELanguage and Intercultural…2024Cited by: 1References: 10

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  • Religious othering in Nigeria’s electoral discourse

    Open AccessGodswill Uchechukwu Chigbu, Sopuruchi Christian Aboh et al.ARTICLEDiscourse & Society2024Cited by: 2References: 9

    Religion is a main characteristic of Nigerian identity and influences the algorithm of its public life. The study explores online religious othering in Nigeria’s electoral discourse. The study utilises a critical discourse analytic approach and examines a dataset of over 14,000 Facebook comments from Nigerians from different religious groups. The analysis revealed that religious othering in the electoral discourse was indexed using three major st…

  • Legitimation in revolutionary discourse

    Open AccessJohn Ganaah, Mark Nartey et al.ARTICLEJournal of Language and Politics2023Cited by: 7References: 25

    This paper analyzes the legitimation strategies used by Jerry John Rawlings, a Ghanaian revolutionary leader, to license his revolutionary actions, including political enemy executions and a crackdown on corrupt practices. It adapts and extends van Leeuwen’s legitimation framework by demonstrating how Rawlings exploited historical memory and the notion of sacrifice in conjunction with the strategies of authorization, rationalization and moralizat…