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Speech acts and the mechanisms by which they are eliminated through the adoption of rhetorical strategies, systemic abuse, and language censorship constitute a deliberate praxis of control that necessitates the construction of a discourse of resistance to interrogate, contest, and ultimately dismantle structures of oppression. Oumar Chérif Diop’s exploration of these mechanisms — rhetorical, linguistic, philosophical, and sociocultural — by which silence and silencing are deployed as systems of control, is both timely and crucial to our understanding of the function of state institutions and our civic responsibilities. * Ernest Cole, Professor of English, Hope College, USA *

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Oumar Chérif Diop is professor in the English department at Kennesaw State University, USA.

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