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Abstract: "This book examines the effects of unstable democratic systems of government in modern society, providing an imperative analysis on political communications from such nations and highlighting real-world examples on the constraints seen in malfunctioning or emerging governments"--Provided by publisher.

Table of Contents:

• The verbal fuel for ethnic hatred and political violence in Kenya / Tom Onditi Luoch
• Sarcasm and irony as a political weapon: social networking in the time of crisis / Natalia Knoblock
• Of drag and push democracies: the construction of Zimbabwe as a failed-partially resuscitated state in popular songs / Mickias Musiyiwa, Marianna W. Visser
• Real-name registration regulation in China: an examination of Chinese netizens' discussions about censorship, privacy, and political freedom / Kenneth C. C. Yang, Yowei Kang
• Tearing up nationalist discourses?: appraisal analysis of representations of Joice Mujuru and the ZANU PF factionalism dialectic in Zimbabwean newspapers / Collen Sabao, Marianna Visser
• Politics and promises: a multimodal social semiotic interpretation of political party emblems and slogans as discourse of hope in a democratic Nigeria / Ikenna Kamalu
• Argumentation and appraisal in divergent Zimbabwean parliamentary debates / Ernest Jakaza, Marianna W. Visser
• Media coverage of the 2009 Afghan presidential election / Christopher Strelluf
• A critical political discourse analysis of President Goodluck Jonathan's declaration of state of emergency on Adamawa, Borno, and Yobe states of Nigeria / Angulu Samson Abaya
• ISIS rhetoric for the creation of the Ummah / Amaryllis Maria Georges
• Metaphors for nation and war in Chinua Achebe's memoir / Onwu Inya
• Multilayered political systems and the politics of monitoring local government programmes for engendered service delivery: a case of Apac District in northern Uganda / David Mugambe Mpiima
• Impediments to Nigerian democracy: ambivalent role of vigilante groups in maintaining security in the wake of the Boko Haram insurgence in northern Nigeria / Ibrahim Sani Kankara
• Ethnic stereotyping on Kenyan blog sites in the 2013 political elections: a spurious harbinger of ethnic discord / Nabea Wendo
• Symbols and not manifestoes are the selling point here: a multimodal critical discourse analysis of two contemporary Nigerian political parties' images and slogans / Adegboye Adeyanju
• Legislating for a de jure one-party state in 1982 and "party hopping" in 2012: reconstructing elite discourse on political parties in Kenya / Sammy Gakero Gachigua
• Shades of the GNU in Zimbabwe (2009 - 13): linguistic discourse analyses of representations of transitional politics in Zimbabwean newspapers / Collen Sabao
• On the threshold of democratic fragility: a macrospeech act explication of media representation of the Nigerian 2011 post-presidential election news reports / Asiru Hameed Tunde, Daniel Ochieng Orwenjo
• Revolutionary politics and theater of semiotics: challenges and solutions in northern Nigeria / Esther Nyam

• Are we all equal?: immunity of parliament members and criminal responsibility of cabinet members in Greece / Konstantinos Margaritis.

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Contributors:

Orwenjo, Daniel Ochieng , editor

Oketch, Omondi, 1970- , editor

Tunde, Asiru Hameed, 1982- , editor

IGI Global , publisher, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/pbl

Languages:

English

Language Notes:

Item content: English

Subjects:

New democracies — Case studies

Failed states — Case studies

Political culture — Case studies

Discourse analysis — Political aspects — Case studies

New democracies

Failed states

Political culture

Discourse analysis — Political aspects

Discourse analysis

Genres:

Case studies

General Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Description based on online resource; title from title screen (IGI Global, viewed 04/21/2016).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (412 pages) : illustrations

Digital Characteristics:

text file

Call Numbers:

JC423 .P56427 2016eb

ISBNs:

9781522500827 (electronic)
9781522500810 (print) [Invalid]

Other Standard Numbers:

Digital Object Identifier: 10.4018/978-1-5225-0081-0

OCLC Numbers:

947669030

Other Control Numbers:

gtp00565524 (source: CaBNVSL)
[Unknown Type]: igi00142126