Contributors to this Issue

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Contributors to this Issue

AN ACOUSTIC INVESTIGATION OF THE DURATION OF VOWEL NASALIZATION IN GA

Author: Rebecca Atchoi Akpanglo-Nartey
Institutional Affiliation: University of Education, Winneba
Current Status: Senior Lecturer
Mailing address: University of Education, Winneba, Department of Applied Linguistics, P. O. Box 25, Winneba
Email address: beckdoku2002@yahoo.com

Bio Statement: Dr. Akpanglo-Nartey is a senior lecturer in the Department of Applied Linguistics, University of Education, Winneba. She is currently the Dean of the Faculty of Foreign Languages Education and Communication in the College of Languages Education, Ajumako. She teaches General Linguistics, Articulatory and Acoustic Phonetics, Phonology and Sociolinguistics. Her research interest is in the areas of Acoustic Phonetics and Sociolinguistics.

A LINGUISTIC DESCRIPTION OF THE LANGUAGE OF GHANAIAN NEWSPAPERS: IMPLICATIONS FOR THE READABILITY, COMPREHENSIBILITY AND INFORMATION FUNCTION OF THE GHANAIAN PRESS

Author: Kolawole Adeniyi
Institutional Affiliation: Obafemi Awolowo University, Nigeria
Current Status: Lecturer I
Mailing address: Department of Linguistics and African Languages, Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife, Nigeria
Email address: kola.adeniyi@daad-alumni.de
Phone Number: +234-8062228707

Bio Statement: Dr. Kolawole Adeniyi is a Lecturer I at the Department of Linguistics and African Languages, Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife, Nigeria. He is a Laboratory Phonologist interested in West Benue-Congo languages.

Author: Tolulope Adeniyi
Institutional Affiliation: University of Ibadan, Nigeria
Mailing address: Department of Linguistics and African Languages, Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife, Nigeria
Email address: kola.adeniyi@daad-alumni.de
Phone Number: +234-8062228707

Bio Statement: Tolulope Adeniyi obtained Bachelor of Arts and Master of Arts Degrees from the University of Ibadan. Until 2015, she taught Distance Learning Students at the Department of Linguistics and African Languages, University of Ibadan.

‘BRA, SƐN, YƐNKↃ...THAT IS ALL I KNOW IN AKAN’: HOW FEMALE MIGRANTS FROM RURAL NORTH SURVIVE WITH MINIMUM BILINGUALISM IN URBAN MARKETS IN GHANA.

Author: Dr. Gladys Nyarko Ansah
Institutional Affiliation: University of Ghana, Legon
Current Status: Senior Lecturer
Mailing address: Department of English
Email address: gansah@ug.edu.gh

Bio Statement: Dr. Gladys Nyarko Ansah is a Senior Lecturer at the Department of English, University of Ghana, Legon. She has about 15 years of teaching experience. She has taught a wide range of courses such as Semantics, Stylistics, Applied Linguistics, English as a Second Language, Bilingualism and English Language in Communication leading to her development of research interest in a wide range of areas in language studies including: language and cognition, language, culture and cognition, the sociolinguistics of bi/multilingualism, language policy, language and politics, and second language acquisition. Her current research interests focus on Language and Migration, and Culture and Politics, and language and health delivery.

Author: Dr. Jemima Asabea Anderson
Institutional Affiliation: University of Ghana, Legon
Current Status: Senior Lecturer
Mailing address: Department of English
Email address: janderson@ug.edu.gh

Bio Statement: Dr. Jemima Asabea Anderson is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of English at the University of Ghana, where she teaches courses in Pragmatics, Sociolinguistics, English in Ghana and World Englishes. She holds an MA in General Linguistics from Indiana University, Bloomington and an MPhil and a PhD in English from University of Ghana. Her research interests include Codification of Ghanaian English, Language and Migration in Ghana, Cross-cultural Pragmatics, Pragmatics of non-native varieties of English, Politeness/Impoliteness in English in Ghana, and Language Choice and Usage in Ghana. She is co-editor of Crossing Linguistic Borders in Post-Colonial Anglophone Africa. Some of her articles have appeared in Journal of Pragmatics, Sociolinguistics, Legon Journal of the Humanities and Linguistic Atlantica.

Author: Dr. Suleman Anamzoya Alhassan
Institutional Affiliation: University of Ghana, Legon
Current Status: Senior Lecturer
Mailing address: Department of Sociology
Email address: asanamzoya@yahoo.com

Bio Statement: Dr. Sulemana Anamzoya Alhassan is a Senior Lecturer of Sociology. His research interests include: Sociology of law and legal anthropology, especially, access to justice, judicial process and legal pluralism. He is also interested in chieftaincy (conflicts, chieftaincy and law), mixed government, and, migrant chiefs.

Author: Dr. Fidelia Ohemeng
Institutional Affiliation: University of Ghana, Legon
Current Status: Lecturer
Mailing address: Department of Sociology
Email address: fohemeng@yahoo.com

Bio Statement: Dr. Fidelia N. A. Ohemeng is a Lecturer of Sociology. Her research interest includes Gender, Death and Dying, Aging, and Health with interests in local interpretation of diseases and the health seeking behaviour of people. She is currently collaborating with others on Dynamic Drivers of Diseases in Africa Consortium (DDAC) working on the interaction of human beings and the ecosystem and the drivers of diseases in Africa. She is also collaborating with some colleagues from the English Department of the University of Ghana examining how migrants with little language cope and interact in their host communities

SUBORDINATION ACROSS GHANAIAN AND BRITISH NEWSPAPER EDITORIALS: A REGISTER PERSPECTIVE

Author: Dr. George Kodie Frimpong
Institutional Affiliation: University of Ghana, Legon
Current Status: Assistant Lecturer
Mailing address: Department of English
Email address: gfrimpong@ug.edu.gh

Bio Statement: Dr. George Kodie Frimpong is a lecturer at the Department of English of the University of Ghana where he has taught since 2009. His research interest is in the general area of stylistics where he explores the interface between language and the context of production. Combining theoretical models from Hallidayan systemic functional grammar and Biber’s functional persuasions, he investigates, as he has done in this study, the motivations behind grammatical choices. Dr. Frimpong is currently a Postdoctoral Fellow of the African Humanities Programs of American Council of Learned Societies (AHP/ACLS) where he has proposed to conduct more research in this area of his research interest.