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Language and communication in a structuralist society

Coker, Wincharles (University of Cape Coast, 2014)

In what ways does the structuralist paradigm of language speak to the underlying constructs of human communication and modern society? How the dynamics of a postmodern society can be understood, while these dynamics remain ...

Establishing a niche in research: Rhetorical strategies in undergraduate and postgraduate writings in the department of English, University of Cape Coast

Ankomah, Christopher; Afful, Joseph B. A. (University of Cape Coast, 2019)

One key means of negotiating entry into a particular discourse in a research community is via the problem statement section in both research articles and dissertations/theses. Students are mostly confronted with the challenge ...

Epistemic modal verbs in research articles written by Ghanaian and international scholars: a corpus-based study of three disciplines

Ngula, Richmond Sadick (University of Cape Coast, 2017)

This paper discusses epistemic modal verbs as rhetorical markers of argumentation in Ghanaian scholars’ research articles (RAs) in the disciplines of Sociology, Economics and Law, and compares the results with similar ...

English Language and Sustainable Development in Ghana

Sarfo, Emmanuel (University of Cape Coast, 2011)

The choice of English as either national or official language in English as Second Language (ESL) situations has been the subject of many academic and political discourses for a long time now. After (colonial) independence, ...

Discourse in institutional administration of public Universities in Ghana: A shift towards a market paradigm?

Edu-Buandoh, Dora Francisca (University of Cape Coast, 2010)

Language as an ideological tool is used in discourse by institutions, sometimes to change their discourse in order to buy into existing economic as well as social powers. In recent years, Ghanaian public universities have ...

Deconstructing applied linguistics conference paper titles: A syntactic analysis

Afful, Joseph B. A.; Ankomah, Christopher (University of Cape Coast, 2020)

Following Swales’ (1990) influential study on research article (RA) introductions, some attention has increasingly been paid to other rhetorical units of both expert and learners’ writing, including titles. A key and ...

Curriculum design in practice: Improving the academic reading proficiency of first year university students

Stoffelsma, Lieke; Mwinlaaru, Isaac N.; Otchere, Gloria; Owusu-Ansahe, Alfred L.; Adjei, Joseph A. (University of Cape Coast, 2017)

This paper describes and reflects on endeavours to develop, design and assess an educational intervention to improve the academic English reading proficiency of first-year university students in Ghana. The study, conducted ...

Corruption and democracy as inextricable bed-fellows: a critical reading of money galore and a man of the people

Kodah, Mawuloe Koffi; Traore, Moussa (University of Cape Coast, 2015)

Corruption is particularly associated with multiparty democratic governance practices in Africa. Although the phenomenon of corruption can be traced to every human society, irrespective of race or colour, it appears more ...

Corpus methods in language studies

Ngula, Richmond Sadick (University of Cape Coast, 2018)

Corpus linguistics and language development in Ghana

Ngula, Richmond Sadick (University of Cape Coast, 2014)

The compilation of corpora and the analysis of linguistic phenomena via corpus data have become a fascinating linguistic practice around the world and by this, corpus linguistics is now incredibly popular. As it is now ...

Mass media and community health in the Akotokyir community of Cape Coast - Ghana

Nanbigne, Vitus (University of Cape Coast, 2018)

It has been argued that even though broad-spectrum approaches to health promotion, using mass communication methods, may not be effective, they are still useful as' sources of health information and in reaching hidden ...

Commonality and individuality in academic writing: an analysis of conference paper titles of four scholars

Afful, Joseph B. A.; Mwinlaaru, Isaac N.2010 (University of Cape Coast, 2010)

In the last two and half decades, scholars and researchers in Applied Linguistics and other allied fields have shown an increasing interest in titles of academic publications. The place of style at the level of the individual ...

Cohesion in the abstracts of undergraduate dissertations: An Intra-disciplinary study in a Ghanaian University

Afful, Joseph Benjamin Archibald; Nartey, Mark (University of Cape Coast, 2014)

Following the work of Santos (1996), studies on research articles and dissertation abstracts have elicited considerable attention. The present research examines grammatical cohesion in the Language and Literature abstracts ...

Bridging Boundaries across Genre Traditions: A Systemic Functional Account of Generic Patterns in Biodata

Mwinlaaru, Isaac Nuokyaa-Ire (University of Cape Coast, 2017)

This study explores the benefits of a synergy between ESP research on genre and theoretical dimensions of systemic functional linguistics (SFL). It models genre on SFL dimensions and employs this model to analyze 200 biodata ...

Assessment in early childhood education: threats and challenges to effective assessment of immigrant children

Ntuli, Esther; Nyarambi, Arnold; Traore, Moussa (University of Cape Coast, 2014)

Research indicates that early childhood professionals gather assessment information to monitor child development and learning, to guide curriculum planning and decision making, to identify children who may have special ...

Apologia, image repair and rhetoric in the defence of electoral defeat

Sarfo-Kantankah, Kwabena Sarfo (University of Cape Coast, 2019)

Using the concepts of apologia, image repair and rhetoric, this paper examines the strategies employed by a former president of the Republic of Ghana to simultaneously maintain his reputation after losing the 2016 Ghanaian ...

Advanced academic literacy and the role of academic editors in research writing

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

Advanced academic literacy often underscores the role of faculty as supervisors and examiners in research and thesis writing processes. Academic editors are unfortunately often not mentioned in these socialization processes. ...

Address terms among University students in Ghana: A case study

Afful, Joseph Benjamin Archibald (University of Cape Coast, 2010)

An important feature of the interface between language and society is the use of address terms. Following Brown and Gilman (1960), research studies of address terms have been extended to several cultural settings. This ...

Address forms and variation among University students in Ghana

Afful, Joseph Benjamin Archibald (University of Cape Coast, 2007)

Since Brown and Gilman’s (1960) study, sociolinguists have shown an increasing interest in the use of address forms in various social domains such as politics, workplace, religion, and acdemia. This study shows how students ...

Address forms among university students in Ghana: a case of gendered identities?

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

In the last two decades, scholars in discourse studies and sociolinguistics have shown considerable interest in how identity is encoded in discourses across various facets of life such as academia, home, politics and ...

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