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This book has been written basically to analyse a typical phenomenon concerning the media/politics nexus in contemporary Ghana by exploring how the processes of Othering are linguistically embedded in the political discourses of the state-owned Ghanaian newspaper, the Daily Graphic, when representing the relation between the ruling and opposition parties in Ghana since 1992. Secondly, the aim of this book is to demonstrate how Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA) can be applied (or broadened) to alternative settings - here, alternative settings refer to contexts in which a conflict is not the topic of the discourse - and finally, to demonstrate that the scope of CDA can be broadened to include alternative settings.

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Eric Kwadwo Amissah obtained both his CoMundus European MA degrees in Communication, Media and Cultural Studies from the University of Firenze, Italy and Roskilde University, Denmark in 2011. He obtained both BA in Publishing Studies and MA in Art Education degrees in 1999 and 2006 respectively at Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Kumasi, Ghana.
The author is a Senior Lecturer at the Department of Graphic Design Technology, Faculty of Applied Arts and Technology, Takoradi Technical University (formerly Takoradi Polytechnic), Takoradi, Ghana, and a PhD candidate at the University of Education, Winneba, Ghana.
He has solely authored and published two books and co-authored two Graphic Design textbooks. He has also written several articles which have been published in both local and international journals, and participated in numerous seminars, forums and conferences on graphic design and media. He is a Publisher/Printing, Graphic Designer and Media Analyst.
Furthermore, the author is a social commentator and has been featured in radio and television programmes as a media analyst/reviewer on matters relating to politics, economic, social and culture on SKYY 93.5 FM Station Morning Show, Takoradi, Ghana. He is married and has two children.

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