This paper presents a discourse-mythological analysis of the rhetoric of a pioneering Pan-African and Ghana’s independence leader, Kwame Nkrumah, drawing on Ruth Wodak’s discourse-historical approach to critical discourse analysis. The thesis of the paper is that Nkrumah’s discourse, in its focus on the emancipation and unification of Africa, can be characterized as mythic, a discursive exhortation of Africa to demonstrate to the world that it can better govern itself than the colonizers. In this vein, the paper analyzes four discursive strategies employed by Nkrumah in the creation and projection of his mythology: the introduction or creation of new discourse events, presupposition and implication, involvement (the use of indexicals) and lexical structuring and reiteration. This study is, therefore, presented as a case study of mythic discourse within the domain of politics.

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“我们现在必须联合，否则灭亡！”

本文利用露丝·沃达克 (Ruth Wodak) 对批判性话语分析的话语历史方法，对具有开创性的泛非和加纳独立领导人夸梅·恩克鲁玛 (Kwame Nkrumah) 的言辞进行了话语神话分析。该论文的论点是，恩克鲁玛的话语在关注非洲的解放和统一时，可以被描述为神话般的，是对非洲的话语劝诫，向世界证明它可以比殖民者更好地管理自己。在这方面，本文分析了恩克鲁玛在其神话的创造和投射中所采用的四种话语策略：新话语事件的引入或创造、预设和暗示、介入（索引词的使用）以及词汇结构和重复。因此，本研究是