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  • Acoustic evidence of [m] and [n] as syllabic consonants (Ç) in Akan 
    Bosiwah, Lawrence (University of Cape Coast, 2020-05-08)
    The study which is ethnographic in nature employs qualitative and acoustic analytical approach to examine [m] and [n] as syllabic consonants in Akan. In all, 30 Akan (Akuapem, Asante Twi and Fantse) native speakers were ...
  • Acoustic evidence of [m] and [n] as syllabic consonants (ç) in Akan 
    Bosiwah, Lawrence (University of Cape Coast, 2020-05-08)
    The study which is ethnographic in nature employs qualitative and acoustic analytical approach to examine [m] and [n] as syllabic consonants in Akan. In all, 30 Akan (Akuapem, Asante Twi and Fantse) native speakers were ...
  • Bemoaning of love: An aspect of Ga women’s discourse on love in Adaawe song- texts 
    Kubi, Benjamin Kubi (University of Cape Coast, 2018-04-30)
    Love, as a subject, has received a lot of attention in literature, particularly poetry. This is probably because poetry is traditionally seen as the creative exploration and expression of an individual’s emotion and passion. ...
  • Beyond creativity: The new historicist’s lens 
    Segbedzi, Ernestine Abla (University of Cape Coast, 2020)
    Literature is life and literary creators often times employ real life happenings as resources in their creative ventures. Thus, such literary works could educate on aspects of life that serve as resources in literary ...
  • Beyond resumptives and expletives in Akan 
    Korsah, Sampson (University of Cape Coast, 2016)
    In Akan, resumption is obligatory for extraction from a subject position. Accordingly, there is usually agreement between the resumptive pronoun (RP) and its referent constituent. However, data from the Asante-Twi dialect ...
  • Celebration of love: An aspect of Ga women’s discourse on love in Adaawe song- texts 
    Kubi, Benjamin (University of Cape Coast, 2017)
    Love is a subject that has received a lot of attention in literature, and poetry especially has seen much on love than any other genre, probably because it is traditionally seen as the creative exploration and expression ...
  • Conceptualizing farm product overmaturity in the Mfantse dialect of Akan 
    Wonkyi, Patrick Nana; Bosiwah, Lawrence (University of Cape Coast, 2020-07-19)
    Within the framework of Conceptual Metaphor Theory by Lakoff, G. and Johnson, M., the present paper analyzes the expressions in the Mfantse dialect of Akan, which communicate the state of overmaturity in farm products, ...
  • Constructions of masculinity among the Akan people of Ghana 
    Owusu, Mary A. S.; Bosiwah, Lawrence (University of Cape Coast, 2015-05-19)
    This paper contests Butler’s theory of gender performativity established on the premise that gender is made real through the constant enactment of certain behaviours that are learnt. Butler posits that, gender can be defined ...
  • A critical discourse analysis of the campaign speech of a Ghanaian opposition leader 
    Addy, Joshua; Ofori, Emmanuel Amo (University of Cape Coast, 2020)
    Referring to politicians’ use of language to promote their ideologies before, during and after elections, campaign speeches represent a key genre in political discourse. In this study, we examine the campaign speech of a ...
  • Cultural congruence and unbalanced power between home and school in rural Ghana and the impact on school children 
    Maskowah, Amy L.; Bosiwah, Lawrence (University of Cape Coast, 2016)
    This ethnographic inquiry examines the cultural congruence between home and school in rural Ghana, exploring the cultural norms of child-rearing practices within families and the institution of schooling. The data illustrate ...
  • Distributed morphology of Akan-Twi plurals 
    Ofori, Emmanuel Amo (University of Cape Coast, 2016)
    Following the discussions of Bodomo and Marfo’s (2002) morphophonological analysis of Akan and Dagaare noun class system using number marking: singular and plural within Lexical Phonology theoretical framework, the present ...
  • Duration correlates of nasal consonants in Akan 
    Bosiwah, Lawrence (University of Cape Coast, 2011)
    The study examines the duration of Akan nasal consonants at different word positions. In all, 70 speakers were recorded, ten from each of the seven Akan communities, made up of five males and five females. The subjects ...
  • An etymological study of the word ‘aborɔfo’ (Europeans) and its Impact on Akan Language 
    Bosiwah, Lawrence; Abrefa, Kofi Busia; Asenso, Charles Okofo (University of Cape Coast, 2015)
    The Akan word ‘aborɔfo’ (Europeans) came into existence in Akan through a derivational process. However, two schools of thought exist concerning the actual meaning of the word ‘aborɔfo’. Those who perceive the colonial ...
  • From polarity to reduplication in Gã 
    Korsah, Sampson (University of Cape Coast, 2009)
    There seems to be an intricate connection between reduplication of indefinite DPs and clausal negation in Gã; the reduplication is only permitted in the presence of negation. Thus, such reduplicated DPs can be construed ...
  • Ga imperatives and richness of the base 
    Korsah, Sampson (University of Cape Coast, 2009)
    This paper proposes a solution to a Richness of the Base problem that is inherent in the morpho-tonology of Gã verbs to which the imperative morpheme i.e. a floating high tone (plus sometimes, a segmental -m´) suffix is ...
  • In a world of their own’: memory and identity in the fishing songs of a migrant Ewe community in Ghana 
    Otchere, Eric Debrah (University of Cape Coast, 2015)
    The musical traditions of the southern Ewe of Ghana; particularly the Anlo, have been subject to a substantial amount of research. Existing research has focused on Anlo musical traditions as practiced in its original ...
  • Intertextuality and the representation of insults in Pro-NPP and Pro-NDC newspapers in Ghana: A critical discourse analysis 
    Ofori, Emmanuel Amo (University of Cape Coast, 2016)
    Intertextuality is the idea that “text cannot be viewed or studied in isolation since texts are not produced or consumed in isolation: all texts exist, and therefore must be understood, in relation to other texts” (Richardson, ...
  • On inherent complement verbs in Kwa 
    Korsah, Sampson (University of Cape Coast, 2014)
    Several analyses have been proposed for the “inherent complement erbs” (ICVs) of the Kwa languages. In this paper, I propose that given the morphosyntactic and semantic properties of both the erb and its complement, it ...
  • Polite request among the Akyem speech community in Ghana 
    Totimeh, Esther Ofosua; Bosiwah, Lawrence (University of Cape Coast, 2015)
    This paper investigates into various ways by which native speakers of the Akyem Twi dialect of the Akan Language of Ghana make polite request and how social variables such as age, gender and socio-economic status influence ...
  • Pragmatic study of verbal threats among the Fantes: A case of Apewosika 
    Appiah, Richard Anane; Bosiwah, Lawrence (University of Cape Coast, 2015)
    Verbal threat is a face threatening acts that confront people. It is a language phenomenon that can generate quarrel, fight, confusion, chaos, etc. This study investigates causes, aims and effects of verbal threat, among ...

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