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Mark Nartey

Assistant Professor


Email: [email protected]

 

Tel: 2616 7787

Room: HSH305

Academic and Professional Qualifications
  • Ph.D. in Discourse Studies, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong
  • M.Phil. in Linguistics, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway
  • PGCert in Learning and Teaching in Higher Education, University of the West of England, UK
  • B.A. in English Language and Linguistics (First Class Honors), University of Cape Coast, Ghana
  • Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (FHEA), Advanced HE, UK
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Research Overview

I am trained in applied linguistics and discourse studies, and held previous positions in Hong Kong, England, and Ghana. I am an interdisciplinary scholar who investigates how people deploy language in specific spatiotemporal and sociocultural contexts to achieve various aims, including but not limited to identity construction or negotiation, self-promotion, argumentation, othering, resistance and (de)legitimation. I am particularly interested in language and identities, language and inequities, language and diversity, language and ethnicity, language and race, language and gender, language and social justice, language and/in the media, and language and/in politics.


My research has a critical orientation and an emancipatory objective. Hence, it sheds light on complex social issues in our rapidly changing world (e.g., decolonization, migration, race, gender, nationalism, social stratification), and illustrates how research on language use can translate into social transformation. My research also contributes to a perceptive understanding of our lived experience by describing how people make sense of their circumstances and happenings in their society as well as find meaning and purpose in our contemporary world. My published work draws heavily on comparative and interdisciplinary research frameworks, and examines intercultural and sociocultural phenomena in Africa, Asia, Europe, the Caribbean, and North America.


I am keen to collaborate with colleagues across the globe, and supervise PhD students and postdocs on research projects in any of the areas described above.

Research Interests
  • Corpus-Assisted Discourse Studies
  • Communication and Media Studies
  • Language, Culture, and Society
  • Language and Social Justice
  • Language and Identities
  • Language and Diversity
  • Language and Ethnicity
  • Language and Gender
  • Language and Race
  • Language and/in Politics
Teaching Areas
  • (Critical) Discourse Analysis
  • Intercultural Communication
  • Professional Communication
  • Language and Society
  • Language and/in Politics
  • Language and Gender
  • Research Methods
Selected Publications

Books/Edited Volumes

  • Mumuni, Eliasu, Nartey, Mark, Pappoe, Ruby, Henaku, Nancy & Agbozo, Edzordzi, G. (Eds.). (2024). Communication and electoral politics in Ghana: Interrogating transnational technology, discourse and multimodalities. Palgrave Macmillan.

  • Henaku, Nancy, Agbozo, Edzordzi, G. & Nartey, Mark. (Eds.). (2024). Communicative perspectives on COVID-19 in Ghana: At the intersection of culture, science, religion and politics. Routledge.

  • Nartey, Mark. (Ed.). (2024). Political discourse analysis of female political leaders in the Global South. Special issue for Journal of Language and Politics.

  • Zottola, Angela, Riboni, Giorgia, & Nartey, Mark. (2024). Identities and diversity in audiovisual products. Special issue for I-LanD Journal.

  • Nartey, Mark. (2023). Political myth-making, populist performance and nationalist resistance: Examining Kwame Nkrumah’s construction and promotion of the African Dream. Routledge.

  • Nartey, Mark. (Ed.). (2023). Voice, agency and resistance: Emancipatory discourses in action. Routledge. 

 

Journal Articles

  • Nartey, Mark. “This too shall pass for the battle is the Lord’s!”: A positive discourse analysis of Akufo-Addo’s presidential addresses on COVID-19. Communication and the Public. Accepted. (ESCI & SCOPUS)

  • Nartey, Mark & Tunstall, Laura M. Exposing and resisting toxic masculinity in the mediascape: A critical analysis of ‘manfluencer’ Andrew Tate’s discourse on X. Men and Masculinities. Accepted. (SSCI & SCOPUS)

  • Nartey, Mark & Ngula, Richmond, S. (2025). An examination of delegitimation in the activist discourse of Ghana’s #FixTheCountry lead convener. Social Semiotics. 1-18. (SSCI & SCOPUS)

  • Ernanda & Nartey, Mark. (2025). Constructing a discourse of hope and inspiration: A positive discourse analysis of Joko Widodo’s press statements on COVID-19. Asian Studies Review 49(2): 255-271. (SSCI & SCOPUS)

  • Nartey, Mark. (2024). The construction of agency in the discourse of Barbados’ prime minister Mia Mottley. Journal of Language and Politics 23(1): 45-66. (SSCI & SCOPUS)

  • Nartey, Mark. (2024). Examining the communication of female political leaders in the Global South. Journal of Language and Politics. 23(1): 1-20. (SSCI & SCOPUS)

  • Nartey, Mark. (2024). Women’s voice, agency and resistance in Nigerian blogs: A feminist critical discourse analysis. Journal of Gender Studies 33(4): 418-430. (SSCI & SCOPUS)

  • Nartey, Mark, Yu, Yating & Chan, Tayden, F. (2024). Delegitimizing vaccine nationalism: A critical discourse analysis of the vaccine discourse in the Chinese English-language news media. China Media Research 20(4): 75-94.

  • Sarfo-Kantankah, Kwabena S., Ngula, Richmond S. & Nartey, Mark. (2024). The discursive construction of solidarity by Ghanaian female parliamentarians. Journal of Language and Politics 23(1): 91-112. (SSCI & SCOPUS)

  • Zottola, Angela, Riboni, Giorgia, & Nartey, Mark. (2024). Identity and diversity in audiovisual products: Creating discursive spaces in multimedia content. I-LanD Journal 1/2(60): 1-10. 

  • Nartey, Mark & Yu, Yating. (2023). A discourse analytic study of #FixTheCountry on Ghanaian Twitter. New Media and Society 9(1): 1-11.  (SCOPUS & SCOPUS)

  • Ganaah, John, Nartey, Mark & Bhatia, Aditi. (2023). Legitimation in revolutionary discourse: A critical examination of the discourse of Jerry John Rawlings. Journal of Language and Politics 22(1): 66-86. (SSCI & SCOPUS)

  • Yu, Yating, Nartey, Mark & Chen, Jieyu (2023). A critical discourse analysis of resistance to climate change in China’s English-language news media. Asian Studies Review. (SCOPUS & SCOPUS)

  • Nartey, Mark. (2022). Kwame Nkrumah’s construction of ‘the African people’ via the Unite or Perish myth: A discourse-historical analysis of populist discourse. Pragmatics and Society 13(4): 605-624. (SCOPUS & SCOPUS)

  • Nartey, Mark. (2022). Advocacy and civic engagement in protest discourse on Twitter: An examination of Ghana’s #OccupyFlagstaffHouse and #RedFriday campaigns. Communication and Critical/Cultural Studies 19(4): 385-401. (SCOPUS & SCOPUS)

  • Nartey, Mark. (2022). Investigating emancipatory discourses in action: The need for an interventionist approach and an activist-scholar posture. Critical Discourse Studies 19(5): 459-464. (SSCI & SCOPUS)

  • Nartey, Mark. (2022). Centering marginalized voices: A discourse analytic study of the Black Lives Matter movement on Twitter. Critical Discourse Studies 19(5): 523-538. (SSCI & SCOPUS)

  • Nartey, Mark. (2022). Marginality and otherness: The discursive construction of LGBT issues/persons in the Ghanaian media. Media, Culture & Society 44(4): 785-801. (SSCI & SCOPUS)

  • Mwinlaaru, Isaac N. & Nartey, Mark. (2022). “Free men we stand under the flag of our land”: A transitivity analysis of African anthems as discourses of resistance against colonialism. Critical Discourse Studies 19(5): 556-572. (SSCI & SCOPUS)

  • Nartey, Mark. (2021). Yvonne Nelson and the heroic myth of Yaa Asantewaa: A discourse-mythological case study of a Ghanaian celebrity. Critical Studies in Media Communication 38(3): 255-268. (SSCI & SCOPUS)

  • Nartey, Mark. (2021). A feminist critical discourse analysis of Ghanaian feminist blogs. Feminist Media Studies 21(4): 657-672. (SSCI & SCOPUS)

  • Nartey, Mark. (2021). Navigating the doctorate: A reflection on the journey of ‘becoming’ a PhD in applied language sciences. Cogent Education 8(1): 1-13. (SSCI & SCOPUS)

  • Nartey, Mark & Ladegaard, Hans. J. (2021). Constructing undesirables: A critical discourse analysis of othering of Fulani nomads in the Ghanaian news media. Discourse & Communication 15(2): 184-199. (SSCI & SCOPUS)

  • Yu, Yating & Nartey, Mark. (2021). Constructing the myth of protest masculinity in Chinese English language news media: A critical discourse analysis of the representations of “leftover men”. Gender and Language 15(2): 184-206. (SSCI & SCOPUS)

  • Nartey, Mark. (2020). Voice, agency and identity: A positive discourse analysis of ‘resistance’ in the rhetoric of Kwame Nkrumah. Language & Intercultural Communication 20(2): 193-205. (SSCI & SCOPUS)

  • Nartey, Mark. (2020). Metaphor and Kwame Nkrumah’s construction of the Unite or Perish myth: A discourse-mythological analysis. Social Semiotics 30(5): 646-664. (SSCI & SCOPUS)

  • Nartey, Mark. (2020). A critical metaphor analysis of heroic myth in the discourse of Kwame Nkrumah. CADAAD Journal 12(1): 37-53. (EBSCO)

  • Nartey, Mark & Bhatia, Aditi. (2020). Mythological heroism in the discourse of Kwame Nkrumah. World Englishes 39(4): 581-593. (SSCI & SCOPUS)

  • Nartey, Mark & Ernanda. (2020). Formulating emancipatory discourses and reconstructing resistance: A positive discourse analysis of Sukarno’s speech at the first Afro-Asian conference. Critical Discourse Studies 17(1): 22-38. (SSCI & SCOPUS)

  • Nartey, Mark. (2019). “We must unite now or perish!” Kwame Nkrumah’s creation of a mythic discourse? Journal of Language and Politics 18(2): 252-271. (SSCI & SCOPUS)

  • Nartey, Mark. (2019). “I shall prosecute a ruthless war on these monsters …” A critical metaphor analysis of discourse of resistance in the rhetoric of Kwame Nkrumah. Critical Discourse Studies 16(2): 113-130. (SSCI & SCOPUS)  

  • Nartey, Mark & Mwinlaaru, Isaac N. (2019). Towards a decade of synergizing corpus linguistics and critical discourse analysis: A meta-analysis. Corpora 14(2): 203-235. (SCOPUS)
     

Book Chapters

  • Nartey, Mark. Corpus linguistics and emancipatory discourse. To appear in H. Nesi & P.  Milin (Eds.) The International Encyclopedia of Language and Linguistics, 3rd Edition (Elsevier).

  • Nartey, Mark. Discourse analysis and race. To appear in H. Nesi & P.  Milin (Eds.) The International Encyclopedia of Language and Linguistics, 3rd Edition (Elsevier).

  • Nartey, Mark. (2025). Resisting parliamentarians: A critical discourse analysis of Ghana’s #DropThatChamber. In R. Piazza, S. Maruender-Bataller,  C. Gregori-Signes, & H. Ringrow (Eds.) The Language of Marginality and Subjectivity in a Global Context. Bloomsbury.

  • Nartey, Mark. (2024). Deploying discourse as a two-pronged instrument: A critical linguistic analysis of John Mahama’s (alternative) political rhetoric on COVID-19. In N. Henaku, G.E. Agbozo, & M. Nartey (Eds.) Communicative Perspectives on COVID-19 in Ghana: At the Intersection of Culture, Science, Religion and Politics, pp. 100-110. Routledge. 

  • Nartey, Mark. (2024). An examination of the communicative functions of Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo’s inaugural address. In E. Mumuni, M. Nartey, R. Pappoe, N.  Henaku, & G.E. Agbozo (Eds.) Communication and Electoral Politics in Ghana: Interrogating Transnational Technology, Discourse and Multimodalities, pp. 57-71. Palgrave Macmillan.

  • Henaku, Nancy, Nartey, Mark, Pappoe, Ruby, G. Edzordzi Agbozo & Mumuni, Eliasu. (2024). Election discourse in Africa: Some critical considerations. In E. Mumuni, M. Nartey, R. Pappoe, N.  Henaku, & G.E. Agbozo (Eds.) Communication and Electoral Politics in Ghana: Interrogating Transnational Technology, Discourse and Multimodalities, pp. 1-12. Palgrave Macmillan.

  • Henaku, Nancy, G. Edzordzi Agbozo & Nartey, Mark. (2024). Kairotic archiving of a pandemic. In N. Henaku, G.E. Agbozo, & M. Nartey (Eds.) Communicative Perspectives on COVID-19 in Ghana, pp. 1-12. Routledge. 

  • G. Edzordzi Agbozo, Mumuni, Eliasu, Nartey, Mark, Pappoe, Ruby & Henaku, Nancy. (2024). Afterword: Democracy, education and public scholarship. In E. Mumuni, M. Nartey, R. Pappoe, N.  Henaku, & G.E. Agbozo (Eds.) Communication and Electoral Politics in Ghana: Interrogating Transnational Technology, Discourse and Multimodalities, pp. 171-181. Palgrave Macmillan.

  • Wong, Victor, Ma, Yuanyi & Nartey, Mark. (2021). Analyzing and interpreting COVID-19-related texts in Chinese: A systemic functional perspective. In W. Wei (Ed.) China’s Contemporary Image and Rhetoric Practice, pp.185-210. Routledge.

  • Nartey, Mark. (2020). The discourse of Nkrumaism: A corpus-informed study. In B. Yang & W. Li (Eds.) Corpus-based Approaches to Grammar, Media and Health Discourse: Systemic Functional and Other Perspectives, pp. 177-196. Springer.

     

Book Reviews

  • Wang, Bo, Ma, Yuanyi & Nartey, Mark. (2024). Review of Hasan, Ruqaiya, Webster, Jonathan, J. & Cloran, Carmel (2021) (Ed.) ‘Describing language: Form and function. Linguistics and the Human Sciences 16(1): 102-110. (ESCI & EBSCO)

  • Shi, Xuanzhi & Nartey, Mark. (2018). Review of Evans, Stephen (2016) ‘The English language in Hong Kong: Diachronic and synchronic perspectives’. Pragmatics and Society 9(1): 163-168. (SSCI & SCOPUS)

  • Nartey, Mark. (2016). Review of Chiluwa, Innocent (2011) ‘Labeling and ideology in the press: A corpus-based critical discourse study of the Niger Delta crisis’. Pragmatics and Society 7(3): 503-506. (SSCI & SCOPUS)

Invited Talks

  • Nartey, Mark. (2023). Examining emancipatory discourses as translational research: The need for a socially engaged critical discourse analysis (CDA). Plenary lecture at Languaging Diversity VIII Conference. University of Turin, Turin, Italy. December 14 – 16. 

  • Nartey, Mark. (2024). Examining emancipatory discourses as translational research: Why we need advocacy and activism in CDA scholarship. Research talk to Bristol Center of Linguistics. University of the West of England, Bristol, United Kingdom, March 27.

  • Nartey, Mark. (2023). Why do political mythologies matter in modern life? Guest lecture at School of Arts and Cultures, Newcastle University, Newcastle, United Kingdom, May 03.

  • Nartey, Mark. (2022). The need for an interventionist approach and an activist-scholar posture in investigating emancipatory discourses. Research talk to the Language, Ideology and Power Research Group. Lancaster University, Lancaster, United Kingdom, December 15.

  • Nartey, Mark. (2022). The application of corpus linguistics to the centering of non-dominant groups and marginalized voices. Podcast on corpus linguistics by Aston University. May 4.

  • Nartey, Mark. (2022). Investigating emancipatory discourses. Research talk to the Malaysian Discourse Research Group. International Islamic University, Selangor, Malaysia, April 15.

  • Nartey, Mark. (2022). Discursive othering and resistance discourse. Workshop on discourse analysis by the European University Institute, Florence, Italy, April 12.

  • Nartey, Mark. (2021). Identity (re)presentation and discursive construction in critical inquiry. Research talk at the Research Centre for Professional Communication in English. The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong, November 12.

  • Nartey, Mark. (2021). Tips, competencies, strategies: Ph.D./M.Phil. on (fast) track! Seminar by the Association of Ghanaian Scholars in Hong Kong. Hong Kong, September 25.

  • Nartey, Mark. (2021). Maximizing your dissertation: Hard facts and soft skills. Workshop on academic writing by the Academic Writing and Communication Skills Unit. University of Energy and Natural Resources, Sunyani, Ghana, July 19.

  • Nartey, Mark. (2020). Centering marginalized voices: A discourse analytic study of Ghanaian feminist blogs. Research talk at the Centre for Language and Communication Research. Cardiff University, Cardiff, United Kingdom, December 16.

Funded Research Projects

  • 2022–2024 Political discourse analysis of female political leaders in the Global South. UWE Bristol New Starter Researcher Development Grant (Principal Investigator, £25,000).

  • 2022–2023 Media representations of mental health patients in Germany: A corpus-based discourse analytic study. The Alexander von Humboldt Foundation (Principal Investigator, €24,030).

  • 2022–2022 Meta-analyses of language studies and linguistics research on the COVID-19 pandemic. Bristol Centre for Linguistics (Principal Investigator, £2,000).

  • 2020–2022 Representations of mental illness in the Ghanaian news media: Implications for journalistic practice and mental healthcare. The Research Grants Council of Hong Kong (Principal Investigator, HK$735,000).

  • 2016–2019 Ideological representations in Kwame Nkrumah’s socio-political discourse: A corpus-assisted critical discourse analysis. The Research Grants Council of Hong Kong (Principal Investigator, HK$634,000).

  • 2017–2017 Postgraduate Students’ Conference/Seminar Grants. The Research Grants Council of Hong Kong (Conference Convener, HK$50,000).

Scholarships & Fellowships

  • The Humboldt Research Fellowship for Postdoctoral Researchers tenable at Chemnitz University of Technology, Germany (2020 ) – not taken

  • The Hong Kong Polytechnic University Distinguished Postdoctoral Research Fellowship (2020)

  • The Hong Kong Ph.D. Fellowship Scheme (2016)

  • The Hong Kong Polytechnic University International Postgraduate Scholarship (2016)

  • M.Phil. Scholarship, The Norwegian Quota Scholarship Scheme (2013)

Awards
  • Department of English and Communication Outstanding Young Alumnus Award in Scholarly Achievement, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University (2025)
  • Communication and the Public Best Reviewer Award, Communication and the Public – ICA Reception, Denver, USA (2025)
  • Faculty of Humanities Distinguished Ph.D. Thesis Award, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University (2020) 
  • The Stephen Evans Best Ph.D. Thesis Award, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University (2019)
  • The Stephen Evans Best Paper Award, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University (2018)
  • Best Paper Award, Joint Postgraduate Student Symposium on Language, Culture and Cognition, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University (2017)
  • Certificate of Achievement in Recognition of Publications by the Ghanaian Students Association of the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (2014)
  • Overall Best Faculty of Arts Student, University of Cape Coast (2012)
  • Best Graduating English Student, University of Cape Coast (2012)
  • Best Graduating Linguistics Student, University of Cape Coast (2012)
  • First Prize, The Head of English Department’s Honor Roll, University of Cape Coast (2011)
Professional Community Services
  • 2024 –    Member of Editorial Board
                     Humanities & Social Sciences Communications (Springer)
  • 2024 –    Member of Editorial Board
                     Journal of Languag and Politics (John Benjamins)
  • 2023 –    Book Review Editor
                     Functions of Language (John Benjamins)
  • 2023 –   Member of Editorial/Advisory Board
                    Cambridge Elements Series in Critical Discourse Studies
  • 2023 – 2025    Internal REF Peer Reviewer 
                               University of the West of England, United Kingdom
  • 2022 – 2025    Member of Program Management Committee
                               University of the West of England, United Kingdom
  • 2024 – 2025    Member of Curriculum Redesign Committee
                               University of the West of England, United Kingdom
  • 2024 – 2025    Member of Scientific Committee, Corpus Linguistics conference, 2025
                               Aston University, Birmingham City University and the University of, Birmingham, 
                               United Kingdom
  • 2023 – 2024    Member of Scientific Committee, iMean Conference, 2024,
                               University of the West of England, United Kingdom
  • 2023 – 2024    Member of Scientific Committee, Critical Approaches to Discourse Analysis Across Disciplines Conference, 2024, 
                               Adam Mickiewicz University, Poland
  • 2022 – 2023    Member of Scientific Committee, Linguistics Association of Ghana Conference 2022,
                               Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Ghana
  • 2021– 2022     Member of Scientific Committee, Corpora & Discourse Conference 2022, 
                               University of Bergamo, Italy
  • 2020 – 2021    Member of Scientific Committee, Linguistics Association of Ghana Conference 2021, 
                               University of Cape Coast, Ghana
  • 2019 – 2020    Member of Scientific Committee, Corpora & Discourse Conference 2020, 
                               University of Sussex, United Kingdom
  • 2017 – 2019    Member, Faculty Research Committee, 
                               The Hong Kong Polytechnic University
  • 2017 – 2021    Senior Hall Tutor and Hall Treasurer, ChengDe Hall, 
                               The Hong Kong Polytechnic University
  • 2016 – 2018    President, of Ghanaian Scholars in Hong Kong (AGS-HK)
  • 2017 – 2018    English Editor, Hall Editorial Committee, 
                               The Hong Kong Polytechnic University Student Halls of Residence
  • 2016 – 2017    Co-editor, Asian Association for Language Assessment (AALA) Student Committe In-Conversation Series