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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 ...

Academic literacy and communicative skills in the Ghanaian University: A Proposal

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

In the last two decades academic literacy has received considerable attention in tertiary education in several English-medium universities. English for Academic Purposes (EAP) and similar writing programs have constantly ...

A tale of two distal demonstratives in Dagaare: Reflections on directionality principles in grammaticalisation

Mwinlaaru, Isaac N.; Yap, Foong Ha (University of Cape Coast, 2017)

For the past half century, the versatile nature of demonstratives across languages has increasingly attracted attention in language typology. The present study contributes to this research agenda by examining the ...

A system-based typology of mood in Niger-Congo languages

Mwinlaaru, Isaac N.; Matthiessen, Christian M.I.M.; Akerejola, Ernest S. (University of Cape Coast, 2018)

A survey of studies in systemic functional language description and typology

Mwinlaaru, Isaac N.; Xuan, Winfred Wenhui (University of Cape Coast, 2016)

Systemic functional theory embodies a multilingual perspective to language from its earliest formulation. However, it was not until the last two decades that descriptions of languages other than English, particularly in ...

Examination of disproportionality of autism in school-aged populations in the U.S.

Marks, Susan Unok; Kurth, Jennifer (University of Cape Coast, 2013)

The purpose of this article is to examine the disproportionality among racial/ethnic groups and states for the disability category of “Autism” as reported to the U.S. Department of Education’s Office of Special Education ...

A literary anthroponomastics of three selected african novels: A cross cultural perspective

Ennin, Theresah Patrine; Nkansah, Nancy Boahemaa (University of Cape Coast, 2015)

Names as markers of identity are a source of a wide variety of information. This paper explores the names of characters to show the sociocultural factors which influence the choice of names and the effects that the names ...

A linguistic analysis of conference titles in applied linguistics

Archibald, Afful Joseph Benjamin (University of Cape Coast, 2017)

Over the past twenty-five years, researchers have expressed considerable interest in titles of academic publications. Unfortunately, conference paper titles (CPTs) have only recently begun to receive attention. The aim of ...

A corpus-based study of the phraseological pattern it + v-link + adj + that clause in l1 and l2 expert academic writing

Ngula, Richmond Sadick (University of Cape Coast, 1-09-20)

This study discusses the phraseological pattern It + V-link + ADJ + That Clause as a rhetorical feature of argumentation in Ghanaian scholars’ research articles (RAs) across the disciplines of Sociology, Economics and Law. ...

‘The axial rethink’ – making sense of language: an interview with Christian M.I.M. Matthiessen

Matthiessen, Christian M. I. M.; Wang, Bo; Mwinlaaru, Isaac N.; Ma, Yuanyi (University of Cape Coast, 2018)

Christian M.I.M. Matthiessen is a leading scholar in Systemic Functional Linguistics (SFL). ogether with William C. Mann and Sandra A. hompson, he developed Rhetorical Structure heory, a discourse analytical framework which ...

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