University of Ghana
List of John Benjamins publications for which someone affiliated with University of Ghana plays a role.
Title
2024 A comparative study of the basic locative construction in Gurenɛ, Asante-Twi, and Tongugbe
Keywords Basic Locative Construction | locative verbs | Gurenɛ | Asante-Twi | Tongugbe
2024 Adposition classes in Tafi and Sɛlɛɛ
Keywords adposition | grammaticalization | Kwa | Tafi | Sɛlɛɛ
2024 Cognitive Linguistics and expressing/interpreting proverbs in a second language
In: Proverbs within Cognitive Linguistics: State of the art [Cognitive Linguistic Studies in Cultural Contexts, 16] pp. 132–171
Keywords Akan | English | L2 | metaphors | proverbs
2024 Reduced complements
Keywords Bùlì | Control | Reduced complements | Restructuring | Serial verb constructions
2023 A cross-linguistic syntactic analysis of telicity in motion predicates in Southern Tati, Mandarin, and Ghanaian Student
Pidgin
Keywords cross-linguistic | motion predicates | telicity | Mandarin | Tati | Ghanaian Student Pidgin | motion events
2023 Language and power: Discursive strategies employed by interpreters in Ghanaian district courts
Keywords interpreting | Ghana | language | power | liberty | courtroom discourse
2023 Idioms, proverbs and body part expressions on Yiedie “wellbeing” in Akan
Keywords conceptual metaphor | ethnopragmatics | emotions | wellbeing | proverbs | Akan
2023 Mabia languages and cultures expressed through personal names
Keywords personal names | Mabia languages | anthroponyms | semantics | ethnopragmatics
2021 Autism spectrum disorder and language choice in Ghana
Keywords autism | Ghana | community of practice | cultural capital | language choice | bilingualism
2020 “That’s not my understanding”: Interpretation in the Ghanaian multilingual court
Keywords multilingualism | courts | interpreting | translation | accuracy | Ghana
2019 The ethnopragmatics of Akan advice
Keywords Akan | advice | ethnopragmatics | cultural scripts | directives | expressives | persuasion | proverbs
2018 “Insanity is from home”: The expression of mental health challenges in Akan
Keywords Akan | Ghana | idioms | indirection | mental health | proverbs
2017 The language of Akan herbal drug sellers and advertisers
Keywords Akan | mixed game model | persuasion | advertising | rhetorical strategies | commissives | directives
2016 Bodily state and metaphors relating to ho, ‘body’, in Akan
Keywords metaphor | emotion | embodiment | cognitive semantics | body-part language
2015 Metaphors of Anger in Akan
Keywords embodiment | emotion | anger | cognitive semantics | metaphor
2012 The ethno-pragmatics of “amannebɔ” in Akan
Keywords amanneb | politeness | narratives | face | communicative competence