Mark Nartey is Lecturer in English Language and Linguistics at the Bristol Centre for Linguistics, University of the West of England. He studied in Ghana, Norway, and Hong Kong. He is an interdisciplinary scholar who specializes in corpus-assisted discourse studies, with a focus on issues at the intersection of language, culture, and society. He investigates how people deploy language in specific spatiotemporal and socio-cultural contexts to achieve various aims, including identity construction, self-promotion, and othering as well as argumentation, resistance, and (de)legitimation. He has published extensively in applied linguistics, discourse analysis, and communication/media studies.

• 1. Introduction 2. Discourse and Mythology 3. Analytical and Methodological Procedures 4. The Unite or Perish Myth as a Discourse of Nationalist Resistance 5. Metaphor and the Unite or Perish Myth 6. The Unite or Perish Myth as Populist Performance 7. Conclusion

Mark Nartey is Lecturer in English Language and Linguistics at the Bristol Centre for Linguistics, University of the West of England. He studied in Ghana, Norway, and Hong Kong. He is an interdisciplinary scholar who specializes in corpus-assisted discourse studies, with a focus on issues at the intersection of language, culture, and society. He investigates how people deploy language in specific spatiotemporal and socio-cultural contexts to achieve various aims, including identity construction, self-promotion, and othering as well as argumentation, resistance, and (de)legitimation. He has published extensively in applied linguistics, discourse analysis, and communication/media studies.

• 1. Introduction 2. Discourse and Mythology 3. Analytical and Methodological Procedures 4. The Unite or Perish Myth as a Discourse of Nationalist Resistance 5. Metaphor and the Unite or Perish Myth 6. The Unite or Perish Myth as Populist Performance 7. Conclusion

Mark Nartey is Lecturer in English Language and Linguistics at the Bristol Centre for Linguistics, University of the West of England. He studied in Ghana, Norway, and Hong Kong. He is an interdisciplinary scholar who specializes in corpus-assisted discourse studies, with a focus on issues at the intersection of language, culture, and society. He investigates how people deploy language in specific spatiotemporal and socio-cultural contexts to achieve various aims, including identity construction, self-promotion, and othering as well as argumentation, resistance, and (de)legitimation. He has published extensively in applied linguistics, discourse analysis, and communication/media studies.

• 1. Introduction 2. Discourse and Mythology 3. Analytical and Methodological Procedures 4. The Unite or Perish Myth as a Discourse of Nationalist Resistance 5. Metaphor and the Unite or Perish Myth 6. The Unite or Perish Myth as Populist Performance 7. Conclusion