Political discourse analysis /

Summary: Publisher Summary 1 Six articles, penned by an international and multidisciplinary group of academics, discuss issues connected to discourse as political behavior. Topics addressed include the functions and uses of English similes, metaphors, and informal language in the political discourse of Albania before the 1990s; the teaching of English as an international language and its use as a weapon of American hegemony; the economic and political problems identified by Ghanaians resulting from the dominant use of English in the Ghanaian educational system; analysis of Nigerian public service advertisements through John Searle's theory of speech acts; the sociolinguistics, communication, and modernization of the Akan language of Ghana in the media; and the impact of historical, educational, religious, and political trends on the interplay between language usage, orality, and literacies as related to Muslim women in postcolonial Niger. Annotation 漏2008 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)