What is it about?
Politically dominant voices use of to intrude the liberty of dominated individuals and how the dominated individuals use language to resist domination
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Why is it important?
Dominated individuals have strategies for resisting people in power.
Perspectives
Powerful political actors use language to constrain dominated people in order to maintain political power. However, the fight for liberty enjoins dominated persons, and empowers them to come up with linguistic, metacommunicative and pragmatic strategies for speaking the unperakable even in the face of death.
Distinguished Professor Samuel Gyasi Obeng
Indiana University System
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This page is a summary of: Grammatical pragmatics: Language, power and liberty in Ghanaian political discourse, Discourse & Society, December 2019, SAGE Publications,
DOI: 10.1177/0957926519877693.
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