Sanka Washew
Biographic Data
| ID | 9637762 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Sanka Washew |
| GIVEN NAMES | Sanka |
| FAMILY NAME | Washew |
| SIGNATURE | WASHEW S |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Cape Coast |
| ORCID | 0009-0007-6090-1053 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 5 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Political Discourse During Crisis: Discursive Strategies in Presidential Covid-19 Speeches
This study investigates the discursive strategies employed by Ghana’s President, Nana Akufo-Addo, in his public addresses on the COVID-19 pandemic. The corpus consists of twenty-nine televised national update speeches delivered between March 2020 and May 2023. Socio-cognitive model of critical discourse analysis, the study examines how discursive strategies are used to construct ideological representations, shape public consciousness, and sustain…
Interpersonal Metafunction in Birthday and Condolence Messages: A Comparative Register Analysis of Digital Discourse
This study applies Halliday’s Systemic Functional Linguistics (SFL) to compare interpersonal meanings in birthday and condolence messages. The study focuses on mood, modality, and pronoun use to examine how language constructs and sustains social relationships in celebratory versus grief contexts. A descriptive qualitative research design was used to gather and analyse data, consisting of 250 birthdays and 250 condolences messages from online mes…
“Hello my ears, are you still there?” Analysing the discursive strategies in Yankah’s “Occasional Kwatriot’s” columns: A CDA approach
This study examines the discursive strategies employed by Professor Kwesi Yankah in his "Occasional Kwatriot Kwesi Yankah Writes" commentaries, using Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA) grounded in van Dijk’s sociocognitive approach. Drawing on a qualitative methodology, the study analyses 20 commentaries published in 2024, with a special focus on Yankah’s integration of his unique writing style to critique societal norms and ideologies. The data r…
The Role of Conceptual Metaphors in Public Perception of Ghanaian Court Judgments
The Metaphoricity of Corruption: Exploring Ghana’s Electoral Manifestos under the Fourth Republic
This study investigated the metaphoricity of the noun “corruption” in the manifestos of Ghana’s two leading parties: the New Patriotic Party (NPP) and the National Democratic Congress (NDC). The study explored how metaphors have shaped the political narrative on corruption from 1996 to 2024 through the use of Conceptual Metaphor Theory (CMT). Data on the word corruption from 14 manifestos were analysed for its metaphorical expressions based on th…
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The Metaphoricity of Corruption: Exploring Ghana’s Electoral Manifestos under the Fourth Republic
This study investigated the metaphoricity of the noun “corruption” in the manifestos of Ghana’s two leading parties: the New Patriotic Party (NPP) and the National Democratic Congress (NDC). The study explored how metaphors have shaped the political narrative on corruption from 1996 to 2024 through the use of Conceptual Metaphor Theory (CMT). Data on the word corruption from 14 manifestos were analysed for its metaphorical expressions based on th…
“Hello my ears, are you still there?” Analysing the discursive strategies in Yankah’s “Occasional Kwatriot’s” columns: A CDA approach
This study examines the discursive strategies employed by Professor Kwesi Yankah in his "Occasional Kwatriot Kwesi Yankah Writes" commentaries, using Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA) grounded in van Dijk’s sociocognitive approach. Drawing on a qualitative methodology, the study analyses 20 commentaries published in 2024, with a special focus on Yankah’s integration of his unique writing style to critique societal norms and ideologies. The data r…
The Role of Conceptual Metaphors in Public Perception of Ghanaian Court Judgments
Political Discourse During Crisis: Discursive Strategies in Presidential Covid-19 Speeches
This study investigates the discursive strategies employed by Ghana’s President, Nana Akufo-Addo, in his public addresses on the COVID-19 pandemic. The corpus consists of twenty-nine televised national update speeches delivered between March 2020 and May 2023. Socio-cognitive model of critical discourse analysis, the study examines how discursive strategies are used to construct ideological representations, shape public consciousness, and sustain…
Interpersonal Metafunction in Birthday and Condolence Messages: A Comparative Register Analysis of Digital Discourse
This study applies Halliday’s Systemic Functional Linguistics (SFL) to compare interpersonal meanings in birthday and condolence messages. The study focuses on mood, modality, and pronoun use to examine how language constructs and sustains social relationships in celebratory versus grief contexts. A descriptive qualitative research design was used to gather and analyse data, consisting of 250 birthdays and 250 condolences messages from online mes…
Language, Metaphor, and Cognition (4 works) · Critical discourse analysis (3 works) · Discourse analysis (3 works) · Ideology (3 works) · Politics (3 works) · Rhetorical question (3 works) · Discourse Analysis in Language Studies (2 works) · Metaphor (2 works) · Narrative (2 works) · Cognitive linguistics (1 works)