• When ‘Sir’ and ‘Madam’ are not: address terms and reference terms students use for faculty in a Ghanaian University 

  Afful, Joseph Benjamin Archibald; Mwinlaaru, Isaac Nuokyaa-Ire (University of Cape Coast, 2012)

  Address terms and reference terms are common but key naming behaviours that are enacted in various social interactions. Thus, unsurprisingly, they have received much attention in sociolinguistic research since the 1960s. ...
• Ways of refusing invitations in English among members of a college of education community in Ghana 

  Sarfo, Emmanuel (University of Cape Coast, 2002)

  Refusing an invitation from another person is potentially face-threatening and therefore with knowledge of such potential danger, interlocutors employ different ways of minimising such threats. This paper is an attempt to ...
• War on terror: on re-reading Dracula and waiting for the barbarians 

  Asempasah, Rogers (University of Cape Coast, 2013)

  Framed by the emerging emphasis in postcolonial studies on terror and narratives of terror, this paper argues that Waiting for Barbarians (1980; hereafter Barbarians) can be read as a counter discourse of resistance to ...
• Variations in ways of refusing requests in english among members of a College Community in Ghana 

  Sarf, Emmanuel (University of Cape Coast, 2011)

  This paper discusses the ways by which members of the Berekum Training College, Ghana refuse requests in English, and how age and socio-economic status affect those refusal forms. Employing the ethnographic research design ...
• Using literature and multiple technologies in esl instruction 

  Traore, Moussa; Kyei-Blankson, Lydia (University of Cape Coast, 2011)

  Many instructors are using literary texts along with language structure books in English as a Secondary Language (ESL) classrooms. Since literature is often written to portray a particular cultural or authentic experience, ...
• Using instructional technology tools to teach informational texts in Thailand 

  Keengwe, Jared; Traore, Moussa; Schnellert, Gary (University of Cape Coast, 2012)

  This article examines the teaching of English as a Second Language (ESL) to medical personnel (nurses and doctors) in a hospital in Northern Thailand. The study shows that using technological devices like listening and ...
• Towards a decade of synergizing corpus linguistics and critical discourse analysis: A meta-analysis 

  Nartey, Mark; Mwinlaaru, Isaac N. (University of Cape Coast, 2019)

  The incorporation of corpus linguistics (CL) methods within critical discourse analysis (CDA) has gathered momentum in the last decade. This paper surveys studies using this triangulated framework, drawing on a database ...
• The use of actually in a non-native English parliamentary context: a corpus study 

  Sarfo-Kantankah, Kwabena Sarfo; Yussif, Ben Kudus (University of Cape Coast, 2019)

  This paper explores the syntactic and pragmatic uses of actually as a discourse marker in Ghanaian parliamentary debates. Employing a corpus methodological approach, the paper uses a 1.9 million-word corpus of Ghanaian ...
• The trickster as a semiotic figure for construing postcolonial experience: Kwakye’s “The Clothes of Nakedness” 

  Mwinlaaru, Isaac N.; Nkansah, Samuel K. (University of Cape Coast, 2018)

  This essay examines an instance of the use of folklore by writers in postcolonial African societies to problematize postcolonial systems in fiction. The essay discusses how Benjamin Kwakye exploits the trickster character ...
• The politics of citation: An analysis of doctoral theses across disciplines 

  Afful, Joseph B.A.; Janks, Hilary (University of Cape Coast, 2013)

  Citation is used as a measure to rank academics and institutions on the assumption that the more one is cited, the greater the impact of one’s research. For this reason, citations in high impact journals that appear on ...
• Hegemonic masculinities in Ayi Kwei Armah’s the healers and Ama Ata Aidoo’s Anowa 

  Ennin, Theresah (University of Cape Coast, 2014)

  The Healers by Ayi Kwei Armah and Ama Ata Aidoo’s Anowa are two texts that focus on issues of manhood and masculinity in traditional Ghana. These writers subvert the normalization of hegemonic masculinity vaunted by society ...
• The fragile ‘absolute’: Heremakhonon and the crisis of representation and historical consciousness 

  Asempasah, Rogers; Traore, Moussa (University of Cape Coast, 2014)

  The Diasporian subject’s encounter with Africa, framed around the trope of return to Africa, constitutes a crucial part of the poetics and discourse of Negritude and Afrocentrism. However, until Heremakhonon’s intervention ...
• The burden of memory: Oral and material evidence of human kidnapping for enslavement and resistance strategies among the Bulsa and Kasena of Ghana 

  Saboro, Emmanuel (University of Cape Coast, 2016)

  European narratives about the slave trade in Africa has often attempted to underestimate, overlook or sometimes forget completely the role of African indigenous resistance to human kidnapping for enslavement. This paper ...
• Sub-disciplinary variation and rhetoric in dissertation acknowledgements written by education students: The case of the University of Cape Coast, Ghana 

  Afful, Joseph Benjamin Archibald; Mwinlaaru, Isaac Nuokyaa-Ire (University of Cape Coast, 2012)

  Studies have revealed differences and similarities in the generic structure and the linguistic encoding of gratitude in dissertation acknowledgements (DAs) in different socio-cultural settings. Whereas some studies have ...
• Style, Character, and the Theme of Struggle and Change: Chinua Achebe’s Anthills of the Savannah 

  Mwinlaaru, Isaac Nuokyaa-Ire (University of Cape Coast, 2014)

  Following insights from stylistic studies on European and American literature, as well as a few earlier attempts on African literature, there has been a recent growing interest in the stylistic analysis of the African ...
• Rhetorical analysis of introductions in an undergraduate English studies course 

  Afful, Joseph Benjamin Archibald (University of Cape Coast, 2009)

  Recent discourse analytical studies have highlighted the importance of rhetorical moves in student writing. In this paper, I explore the rhetoric of introductions of examination essays written by second-year English students ...
• Re-thinking beginning: Okri’s The famished road and the crisis of the postcolonial nation 

  Asempasah, Rogers (University of Cape Coast, 2019)
• Research proposal and thesis writing: narrative of a recently graduated researcher in applied linguistics 

  Afful, Joseph Benjamin (University of Cape Coast, 2008)
• Reconstituting the Self: of Names, Discourses and Agency in Amma Darko’s Beyond the Horizon 

  Asempasah, Rogers; Sam, Christabel Aba (University of Cape Coast, 2016)

  What “Mara” signifies and how this is constitutive of the quest for a conscious but problematic postcolonial transnational subjectivity has rarely reverberated in the burgeoning critical commentary on Amma Darko’ Beyond ...
• Transitivity and Narrative Viewpoint in Ngugi wa Thiong’o’s Weep Not, Child 

  Mwinlaaru, Isaac Nuokyaa-Ire (University of Cape Coast, 2012)

  The linguistic study of African literary texts has become a fertile ground for researchers in both Applied Linguistics and Literary Studies. This study applies transitivity in analysing the narrative style adopted in a key ...

• When ‘Sir’ and ‘Madam’ are not: address terms and reference terms students use for faculty in a Ghanaian University 

  Afful, Joseph Benjamin Archibald; Mwinlaaru, Isaac Nuokyaa-Ire (University of Cape Coast, 2012)

  Address terms and reference terms are common but key naming behaviours that are enacted in various social interactions. Thus, unsurprisingly, they have received much attention in sociolinguistic research since the 1960s. ...
• Ways of refusing invitations in English among members of a college of education community in Ghana 

  Sarfo, Emmanuel (University of Cape Coast, 2002)

  Refusing an invitation from another person is potentially face-threatening and therefore with knowledge of such potential danger, interlocutors employ different ways of minimising such threats. This paper is an attempt to ...
• War on terror: on re-reading Dracula and waiting for the barbarians 

  Asempasah, Rogers (University of Cape Coast, 2013)

  Framed by the emerging emphasis in postcolonial studies on terror and narratives of terror, this paper argues that Waiting for Barbarians (1980; hereafter Barbarians) can be read as a counter discourse of resistance to ...
• Variations in ways of refusing requests in english among members of a College Community in Ghana 

  Sarf, Emmanuel (University of Cape Coast, 2011)

  This paper discusses the ways by which members of the Berekum Training College, Ghana refuse requests in English, and how age and socio-economic status affect those refusal forms. Employing the ethnographic research design ...
• Using literature and multiple technologies in esl instruction 

  Traore, Moussa; Kyei-Blankson, Lydia (University of Cape Coast, 2011)

  Many instructors are using literary texts along with language structure books in English as a Secondary Language (ESL) classrooms. Since literature is often written to portray a particular cultural or authentic experience, ...
• Using instructional technology tools to teach informational texts in Thailand 

  Keengwe, Jared; Traore, Moussa; Schnellert, Gary (University of Cape Coast, 2012)

  This article examines the teaching of English as a Second Language (ESL) to medical personnel (nurses and doctors) in a hospital in Northern Thailand. The study shows that using technological devices like listening and ...
• Towards a decade of synergizing corpus linguistics and critical discourse analysis: A meta-analysis 

  Nartey, Mark; Mwinlaaru, Isaac N. (University of Cape Coast, 2019)

  The incorporation of corpus linguistics (CL) methods within critical discourse analysis (CDA) has gathered momentum in the last decade. This paper surveys studies using this triangulated framework, drawing on a database ...
• The use of actually in a non-native English parliamentary context: a corpus study 

  Sarfo-Kantankah, Kwabena Sarfo; Yussif, Ben Kudus (University of Cape Coast, 2019)

  This paper explores the syntactic and pragmatic uses of actually as a discourse marker in Ghanaian parliamentary debates. Employing a corpus methodological approach, the paper uses a 1.9 million-word corpus of Ghanaian ...
• The trickster as a semiotic figure for construing postcolonial experience: Kwakye’s “The Clothes of Nakedness” 

  Mwinlaaru, Isaac N.; Nkansah, Samuel K. (University of Cape Coast, 2018)

  This essay examines an instance of the use of folklore by writers in postcolonial African societies to problematize postcolonial systems in fiction. The essay discusses how Benjamin Kwakye exploits the trickster character ...
• The politics of citation: An analysis of doctoral theses across disciplines 

  Afful, Joseph B.A.; Janks, Hilary (University of Cape Coast, 2013)

  Citation is used as a measure to rank academics and institutions on the assumption that the more one is cited, the greater the impact of one’s research. For this reason, citations in high impact journals that appear on ...
• Hegemonic masculinities in Ayi Kwei Armah’s the healers and Ama Ata Aidoo’s Anowa 

  Ennin, Theresah (University of Cape Coast, 2014)

  The Healers by Ayi Kwei Armah and Ama Ata Aidoo’s Anowa are two texts that focus on issues of manhood and masculinity in traditional Ghana. These writers subvert the normalization of hegemonic masculinity vaunted by society ...
• The fragile ‘absolute’: Heremakhonon and the crisis of representation and historical consciousness 

  Asempasah, Rogers; Traore, Moussa (University of Cape Coast, 2014)

  The Diasporian subject’s encounter with Africa, framed around the trope of return to Africa, constitutes a crucial part of the poetics and discourse of Negritude and Afrocentrism. However, until Heremakhonon’s intervention ...
• The burden of memory: Oral and material evidence of human kidnapping for enslavement and resistance strategies among the Bulsa and Kasena of Ghana 

  Saboro, Emmanuel (University of Cape Coast, 2016)

  European narratives about the slave trade in Africa has often attempted to underestimate, overlook or sometimes forget completely the role of African indigenous resistance to human kidnapping for enslavement. This paper ...
• Sub-disciplinary variation and rhetoric in dissertation acknowledgements written by education students: The case of the University of Cape Coast, Ghana 

  Afful, Joseph Benjamin Archibald; Mwinlaaru, Isaac Nuokyaa-Ire (University of Cape Coast, 2012)

  Studies have revealed differences and similarities in the generic structure and the linguistic encoding of gratitude in dissertation acknowledgements (DAs) in different socio-cultural settings. Whereas some studies have ...
• Style, Character, and the Theme of Struggle and Change: Chinua Achebe’s Anthills of the Savannah 

  Mwinlaaru, Isaac Nuokyaa-Ire (University of Cape Coast, 2014)

  Following insights from stylistic studies on European and American literature, as well as a few earlier attempts on African literature, there has been a recent growing interest in the stylistic analysis of the African ...
• Rhetorical analysis of introductions in an undergraduate English studies course 

  Afful, Joseph Benjamin Archibald (University of Cape Coast, 2009)

  Recent discourse analytical studies have highlighted the importance of rhetorical moves in student writing. In this paper, I explore the rhetoric of introductions of examination essays written by second-year English students ...
• Re-thinking beginning: Okri’s The famished road and the crisis of the postcolonial nation 

  Asempasah, Rogers (University of Cape Coast, 2019)
• Research proposal and thesis writing: narrative of a recently graduated researcher in applied linguistics 

  Afful, Joseph Benjamin (University of Cape Coast, 2008)
• Reconstituting the Self: of Names, Discourses and Agency in Amma Darko’s Beyond the Horizon 

  Asempasah, Rogers; Sam, Christabel Aba (University of Cape Coast, 2016)

  What “Mara” signifies and how this is constitutive of the quest for a conscious but problematic postcolonial transnational subjectivity has rarely reverberated in the burgeoning critical commentary on Amma Darko’ Beyond ...
• Transitivity and Narrative Viewpoint in Ngugi wa Thiong’o’s Weep Not, Child 

  Mwinlaaru, Isaac Nuokyaa-Ire (University of Cape Coast, 2012)

  The linguistic study of African literary texts has become a fertile ground for researchers in both Applied Linguistics and Literary Studies. This study applies transitivity in analysing the narrative style adopted in a key ...

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