Gladys Nyarko Ansah
List of John Benjamins publications for which Gladys Nyarko Ansah plays a role.
Articles
2024 Chapter 6. Cognitive Linguistics and expressing/interpreting proverbs in a second language Proverbs within Cognitive Linguistics: State of the art, Belkhir, Sadia (ed.), pp. 132–171 | Chapter
This chapter relies on Cognitive/Cultural Linguistics assumptions to investigate proverb interpretation and expression among Akan-English bilinguals in Ghana. Cognitive linguistic approaches to studying proverbs, e.g., Lakoff and Turner (1989), emphasise the role cognitive models play in human… read more
2014 Cognitive models of anger in Akan: A conceptual metaphor analysis Cognitive Linguistic Studies 1:1, pp. 131–146 | Article
This paper analyses the conventional metaphorical expressions of anger in Akan, a Kwa language spoken in Ghana, West Africa, in order to identify conventional conceptual metaphors of the concept in the language. Native and relatively monolingual speakers of Akan in semi-rural and rural Ghana… read more