This study gave primary attention to the provision of additional support to Ghanaian English as a legitimate and viable variety of English through the use of progressive aspect, especially in comparison with British English. ...

The study aimed to present a genre analysis of the introduction sections of sports news presentation programmes (SNPP) on selected television stations in Ghana. Specifically, the study sought to account for the schematic ...

The autobiography is the medium Angelou chooses to recount the defining phases of her experience as an African-American. In fact, she uses it to define her identity – who she is, her culture, and her past, present and ...

Language use in academic discourse has received considerable attention from researchers over the years. These researchers have shown how language is used as a tool to communicate effectively and to enact power. The study ...

The study presents a case study on the use of rhetoric in anniversary speeches of heads of Wesley Girls’ Senior High School and St. Augustine’s College in Cape Coast, using Halliday and Matthiessen (2004) model ...

This thesis sets out to investigate how Ayi Kwei Armah, as a post-colonial African writer, in Osiris Rising and KMT: In the house of life re-tells the history of Africa as a way of “writing back” to assert the African ...

Discourse on the existence of Ghanaian English (GhE) has provided several works on the description of GhE pronunciations, especially vowels (for example, Bobda, 2000; Huber, 2008; Lomotey, 2010; Ofori, Duah & Mintah, 2014). ...

The study examined the types of tense used in the results and discussion sections of academic writings in M.Phil. theses in English and Health Science in the University of Cape Coast, Ghana. The mixed method approach ...

Following insights from disciplinary variation studies on writer’s positioning and stance, there has been an interest in analyzing how academics engage in an academic interaction with their putative readers, by either ...

The Ghana Commercial Bank Limited (GCB, LTD) embarked on a computerisation drive in 1990 to enhance its business processes and its service delivery. The exercise resulted in the introduction of a centralised banking software ...