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The integration of linguistics and literature in this thesis departs theoretically and methodolog... more The integration of linguistics and literature in this thesis departs theoretically and methodologically from the Stylistics and Cognitive Poetics interdisciplinarity motivated by Roman Jakobson and the Prague structuralists. Increasingly, the structuralist assumption of the transcendence of meaning, or of transparency between the signified and the signifier is being found problematic. The shift here is particularly from the New Critical and Stylistics focus on the timelessness and the autotelic nature of the literary expression as a verbal icon, to the socio-cultural conditions of authorship and interpretation of the literary work, and focus on embedded intentions, beliefs, desires and presuppositions, which enable literature to make sense and yet conceal its sense. The present inquiry is a study of the exemplary nature of the pragmatic category of presupposition as an inference type which allows the inferrer to integrate the determinate and objective text with an underlying structu...
Legon Journal of the Humanities
Due to its supervisory responsibility over the executive and public institutions, including minis... more Due to its supervisory responsibility over the executive and public institutions, including ministries, departments and agencies (MDAs), Ghana’s legislature has a mandate to check and fight corruption and make its practice a high risk, low-gain activity. The commitment, urgency and the willingness to fight corruption can be seen not only in creating the legislative framework for addressing corruption, promoting governmental accountability and acting as a check on the executive, but also in how the subject of corruption is broached in parliamentary debates and discussions, an area which relatively lacks scholarly attention. First, using an interpretive content analysis, this paper studies the approaches to the fight against corruption in Ghana by examining the Parliamentary Committee report on the National Anti-Corruption Action Plan (NACAP) and, the debate thereof, in order to uncover the focus of the NACAP. Second, the paper examines Parliamentarians’ use of evaluative language in ...
The integration of linguistics and literature in this thesis departs theoretically and methodolog... more The integration of linguistics and literature in this thesis departs theoretically and methodologically from the Stylistics and Cognitive Poetics interdisciplinarity motivated by Roman Jakobson and the Prague structuralists. Increasingly, the structuralist assumption of the transcendence of meaning, or of transparency between the signified and the signifier is being found problematic. The shift here is particularly from the New Critical and Stylistics focus on the timelessness and the autotelic nature of the literary expression as a verbal icon, to the socio-cultural conditions of authorship and interpretation of the literary work, and focus on embedded intentions, beliefs, desires and presuppositions, which enable literature to make sense and yet conceal its sense. The present inquiry is a study of the exemplary nature of the pragmatic category of presupposition as an inference type which allows the inferrer to integrate the determinate and objective text with an underlying structu...
Legon Journal of the Humanities
Due to its supervisory responsibility over the executive and public institutions, including minis... more Due to its supervisory responsibility over the executive and public institutions, including ministries, departments and agencies (MDAs), Ghana’s legislature has a mandate to check and fight corruption and make its practice a high risk, low-gain activity. The commitment, urgency and the willingness to fight corruption can be seen not only in creating the legislative framework for addressing corruption, promoting governmental accountability and acting as a check on the executive, but also in how the subject of corruption is broached in parliamentary debates and discussions, an area which relatively lacks scholarly attention. First, using an interpretive content analysis, this paper studies the approaches to the fight against corruption in Ghana by examining the Parliamentary Committee report on the National Anti-Corruption Action Plan (NACAP) and, the debate thereof, in order to uncover the focus of the NACAP. Second, the paper examines Parliamentarians’ use of evaluative language in ...