ABSTRACT This study analyses register and lexical cohesive devices in the 2012 manifesto of the New Patriotic Party using the theories of Cohesion by Halliday and Hasan (1976) and Halliday (1994) register theory. The study employed qualitative research approach and purposive sampling technique to select the 2012 manifesto of the NPP. The registers in the manifesto were analysed based on Leech and Short (2007) lexical category. The findings of the study revealed that nouns are the prepondera...
ABSTRACT The study examines how the English language has been used by President John Dramani Mahama in three of his political speeches. The main focus of the study is to analyse the use of lexical items and the functions they play in political discourse from the stylistic perspective. The Linguistic and Stylistic Categories by Leech & Short (2007) and the Ideational metafunction in the Systemic Functional Grammar Theory by Halliday and Matthiessen (2014) are applied as theoretical frameworks...
ABSTRACT This study investigated the origin, meaning and motivation of the names of the principal settlements of the Anlo state and the morphological processes involved in the formation of the names. It classified also the names with appropriate conclusions. The research design used for the study was the descriptive survey. The population for the study was the chiefs, elders and people who had knowledge about the history of the settlements. The purposive and snow ball sampling techniques we...
ABSTRACT This thesis examines the image of African women in a patriarchal society. The purpose of this research work is to find out how Buchi Emecheta uses this text to present African women, how Amma Darko uses her book to present African women, whether these two novelists present women differently or similarly and also to find out whether Emecheta and Darko present African women different from the way some male authors have presented women. The investigation was done through the use o...
ABSTRACT 10 This study sets out to investigate the use of aesthetic elements in dipo songs that contribute to their social importance. Dipo songs serve as a means of social control; as a means of action directed towards the solution of problems that have plagued society in recent times by exposing the weakness, minor follies and major vices. Thus satire which is a major aesthetic element of dipo songs acts as a means of surgery to correct the follies. In a bid to achieve this, the rese...
ABSTRACT The purpose of this study is to investigate the use of code switching and mixing as a linguistic resource of students of St. Teresa‟s College of Education, Hohoe. The study looks at the academic and non-academic discussions of students and tutors to unveil the type of code switching (CS) and code mixing (CM) found in the college, the reason(s) for CS and CM, the extent to which CS and CM are a discourse strategy that is used to negotiate their activities. The ethnographic res...
INTRODUCTION 1.1 Background of the Study Language is a means of communication. It is one of the powerful tools that Nature gave to humankind. There are over thousands of different languages across the world. Ghana alone can boast of over forty-six (46) different languages of which about nine (9) are studied or learned in schools: Twi, Ga, Ewe, Fante, Dagaare, Dagomba (Dagbani), Dangme, Gonja, and Kasem. According to Dako (2002): It is generally estimated that there are between 42-55 ...
ABSTRACT The study uses Halliday's transitivity theory as a framework to analyse how language has been used by Kofi Awoonor and Adjoa Yeboah-Afari to reveal how the African experience is represented from the Ghanaian perspective in their respective stories Just to Buy Corn and The Sound of Pestles. The primary focus is on the analysis of transitivity in the selected stories and how the interplay between processes, participants and circumstances is used as representation of the author’s pe...
ABSTRACT A congregation’s name is a linguistic badge that normally serves as a medium of communication to its own clientele (actual and potential). As a result of that, this research sought to find the linguistic features used in naming selected Christian congregational place names of Ghana. The study specifically sought to identify the naming patterns of Christian congregational place names of Ghana, analyse their onomastic peculiarities and examine their toponymic typology. The study clo...
ABSTRACT This study investigates the use of epistemic modality in two selected State of the Nation Addresses delivered by Ex-president John Agyekum Kufour of Ghana on 16th February, 2001 and 14th February, 2008respectively. The two texts were purposely selected, closely read and analyzed through mixed method of qualitative and quantitative dimensions. The analysis employs analytical frameworks of Kratzer’s Context-dependency and Lexical Specialization and Halliday and Matthiessen Modal Tax...
ABSTRACT This study sought to analyse all instances of simultaneous talk in classroom discourse. The study specifically ascertained the kind of interruptions and overlaps that occurred in the classroom discourse, determined the functions of interruptions and overlaps in the classroom discourse and examined the effects of interruptions and overlaps in the classroom discourse. The researcher adopted the qualitative research approach and case study design. The target population of this study c...
ABSTRACT The purpose of this study is to investigate the language of advertising and analyse its use in MTN Ghana print advertisements. The study looked at the language devices the MTN Ghana copywriter uses in writing the advertisements and how these devices are manipulated to lure potential customers to sign onto the network. It also investigated the most used language devices in MTN Ghana print advertisements. Qualitative case study design was employed for the study. Data for the study wa...