Kofi Agyekum
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 659297 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Kofi Agyekum |
| NOMBRES | Kofi |
| APELLIDO | Agyekum |
| FIRMA | AGYEKUM K |
| AFILIACIONES | University of Ghana |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-6177-2819 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 23 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 44 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 23 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2002 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 3 |
Academic Stress Among Built Environment Students
Identifies and ranks critical academic stressors and coping mechanisms among built environment students in Ghana. • Uncovers eight principal components of stressors and four core coping strategy dimensions using exploratory factor analysis. • Applies a robust methodological approach combining normalization, EFA, and fuzzy synthetic evaluation. • Develops a practical framework aligning stressors with institutional support mechanisms. • Offers acti…
Enhancing circular construction through procurement
The ethnopragmatics of Akan leave-takings and farewells
The paper examines leave-takings and farewells as linguistic routines in Akan. It emerged from my previous works on ethnopragmatics of Akan linguistic routines, namely apology, requests, greetings, thanking, advice, compliments, etc. This paper adopted Weigand’s (2010) Mixed Game Model, which deals with dialogic action games. It employs qualitative approaches including interviews, observation, and the recording of natural ethnographic events in t…
Domestic Animal Metaphor in Akan
The article examines the animal metaphor (henceforth AM) in Akan by using the conceptual metaphor propounded by Lakoff and Johnson. The article discusses how the Akan use animal behaviour, structure, and movements to represent human behaviour metaphorically. The areas to be covered where animals are used to represent humans based on Akan sociocultural and socio-cognitive perspectives are folktales, proverbs, panegyric poetry, folksongs, and drum …
Idioms, proverbs and body part expressions on Yiedie “wellbeing” in Akan
This paper investigates the interaction between language, culture, body and emotions. It is an aspect of cognitive semantics that discusses the Akan somatic nature of their body and therefore have existing lexical items, idioms and proverbs to comment on “wellbeing”. It is based on Conceptual Metaphor Theory by Lakoff and Johnson (1980) and Ethnopragmatics by Goddard (2006) . A great parts of Akan expressions for “wellbeing” are tapped from body …
Metaphorical euphemisms in death-discourse among the Nzema
This article seeks to deepen our understanding of the cognitive processes in death euphemisms in Nzema, a Kwa language of Ghana. The article highlights the metaphorical “mappings” across conceptual domains, where the concept of death (target domain) is well understood in terms of more physical events such as journey, departure, return, invitation, continuous sleep, lose a fight, etc. (source domain). It is demonstrated that the Nzema conceptualis…
The pragmatics of duabↄ ‘grievance imprecation’ taboo among the Akan
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Proverbs in Akan highlife lyrics
Proverbs and stylistic devices of Akwasi Ampofo Agyei's Akan highlife lyrics
This paper examines the stylistic features and proverbs in ɔba nyansafo wɔbu no bɛ na wɔnka no asɛm, 'A wise child is spoken to in proverbs' a popular Ghanaian highlife song by the late Akwasi Ampofo Agyei. This is an area which is still grey in the study of highlife music. The paper basically adopted qualitative methodology through interviews and recordings. The paper combines the theories of language ideology and ethnomusicology, and looks at t…
The ethnopragmatics of Akan advice
This paper discusses Akan Advice under ethnopragmatics. It adopts persuasion, speech acts of directives and expressives, and Akan proverbs to discuss advice with the insight from Akan culture. The adviser expresses some feelings and emotions and directs the advisee to act and behave towards the benefits of the individual, the group or society. The paper taps data from participant observations and audio taped recordings at arbitrations, marriage a…
The language of Akan herbal drug sellers and advertisers
This paper addresses the language and pragmatic strategies used by Akan herbal drug sellers to persuade would-be-buyers. It adopts the theoretical framework of Weigand’s Mixed Game Model (MGM) and defines persuasion as a variable of competence-in-performance, and language use as the basis of dialogic interaction. It investigates how sellers employ politeness, honorifics, humour, digression, personification, proverbs, metaphors and hyperbole in di…
Bodily state and metaphors relating to ho , ‘body’, in Akan
This paper addresses metaphorical extensions of ho , which means ‘body’ in Akan, a Ghanaian language. In Akan, as in many other languages, body part expressions and bodily functions have extended meanings that still relate to the basic sense of the words. Expressions derived from ho are used to talk about emotions and character traits, perhaps more extensively and pervasively than equivalent lexis in English. The data for this study are taken fro…
The communicative role of silence in Akan
This paper looks at the meaning of silence within the Akan speech community. It discusses two types of silence (1) performative silence and (2) semiotic silence . The positive attributes of silence as a communicative strategy will be explored. The paper outlines the various communicative situations in Akan society in which silence is employed, highlighting religious, social and linguistic aspects. Attention is drawn to indigenous expressions to d…
The ethno-pragmatics of “amannebɔ” in Akan
Among the Akan, one of the parameters for assessing a person’s communicative competence is to see how much s/he is conversant with giving an account of his/her mission anytime he/she plays the role as a guest, a host, or a spokesperson. The aim of this paper is to discuss the Akan narrative concept called amannebɔ . The paper defines the concept called amannebɔ and what it entails in Akan sociocultural norms and values and goes on to discuss aman…
The Ethnopragmatics of the Akan Palace Language of Ghana
This paper deals with formal language at the chiefly palaces of the Akan people of Ghana. The Akan language is spoken in six regions in the southern parts of Ghana. These areas are inhabited by native Akans and by Ghanaian immigrants representing other ethnic groups. The approaches used in this study are formality (Irvine 2001) and register, as outlined by Agha (2007). The paper looks at Akan palace language from the point of view of the norms an…
Language Shift
This paper discusses language shift in Ghana from two perspectives. The first will be language shift from a Ghanaian language to English which is the official language. The second category will be the shift from one or two Ghanaian languages to a third Ghanaian language that has become a lingua franca of an area. The paper will define language shift, and discuss the factors that bring about language shift in general and Ghana in particular. We wi…
The pragmatics of Akan greetings
This article addresses greetings as one of the most frequent linguistic interactional routines among the Akan of Ghana. The article will look at the functions, situations, and the major forms of Akan greetings. The article will highlight the major functions of greetings such as the creation of social relationship, commitment to one another in social encounters and manifestation of an individual's communicative competence. It discusses the taxonom…
Akan Traditional Arbitration
This paper examines the basic components of the process of settlement, types of offences and language of Akan traditional arbitration. The paper also considers arbitration and Akan sociocultural norms and values. The paper finally discusses the status of Akan arbitration within the context of contemporary forms of adjudication, democracy, Westernisation, urbanisation, Christianity and Islam. The paper argues that arbitration is still an alternati…
The socio-cultural concept of face in Akan communication
The paper examines the metaphorical expressions derived from anim ‘face’ in Akan, a major language in Ghana. It analyses and discusses face metaphoric expressions in relation with the universal concept analysed by Face Theory. The paper projects this concept onto the Akan cultural system and looks at how the concept is used in Akan communicative interaction. The sociolinguistics and pragmatics of anim are considered. In particular, it focuses on …
Invective language in contemporary Ghanaian politics
This paper addresses the use of invectives in modern Ghanaian politics. Evidence is drawn from public speeches of political activists of the two leading parties of the country, namely: the National Patriotic Party (NPP) and the National Democratic Congress (NDC). The paper analyses at the context as well, i.e. the participants involved, the reaction of the public, and tries to answer the question what makes a public speech or utterance an invecti…
Ntam 'reminiscential oath' taboo in Akan
Ntam 'reminiscential oath' among the Akan of Ghana is a commissive form that has statutory force. In it, the oath-taker evokes the memory of historical events that are dangerous and unpleasant to mention. The statutory force of the oath is accomplished by the evocation of these memories in the community which shares them. This article reviews the types of ntam oaths, the contexts for their use, and their structure
Honorifics and Status Indexing in Akan Communication
This paper addresses honorifics as an important aspect of formality, persuasion and politeness in Akan. Akan is a traditional society that attaches greater importance to address forms, honorifics and politeness in speech situations. This paper considers honorifics as a deference system; it treats types of honorifics and their linguistic forms, such as power-based, solidarity, occupational and gender-based honorifics. I shall also look at some of …
Menstruation as a Verbal Taboo among the Akan of Ghana
This article discusses menstruation as a verbal taboo among the Akan-speakers of Ghana and considers the theory behind this phenomenon. The use of euphemisms is the most popular verbal Taboo Avoidance Technique (TAT) among the Akan, and the euphemisms used for menstruation are outlined. The article then examines the semantic and metaphorical relations between the euphemisms and what they denote. Among the Akan, euphemisms for menstruation follow …
The communicative role of silence in Akan
This paper looks at the meaning of silence within the Akan speech community. It discusses two types of silence (1) performative silence and (2) semiotic silence . The positive attributes of silence as a communicative strategy will be explored. The paper outlines the various communicative situations in Akan society in which silence is employed, highlighting religious, social and linguistic aspects. Attention is drawn to indigenous expressions to d…
The pragmatics of Akan greetings
This article addresses greetings as one of the most frequent linguistic interactional routines among the Akan of Ghana. The article will look at the functions, situations, and the major forms of Akan greetings. The article will highlight the major functions of greetings such as the creation of social relationship, commitment to one another in social encounters and manifestation of an individual's communicative competence. It discusses the taxonom…
Honorifics and Status Indexing in Akan Communication
This paper addresses honorifics as an important aspect of formality, persuasion and politeness in Akan. Akan is a traditional society that attaches greater importance to address forms, honorifics and politeness in speech situations. This paper considers honorifics as a deference system; it treats types of honorifics and their linguistic forms, such as power-based, solidarity, occupational and gender-based honorifics. I shall also look at some of …
Enhancing circular construction through procurement
The Ethnopragmatics of the Akan Palace Language of Ghana
This paper deals with formal language at the chiefly palaces of the Akan people of Ghana. The Akan language is spoken in six regions in the southern parts of Ghana. These areas are inhabited by native Akans and by Ghanaian immigrants representing other ethnic groups. The approaches used in this study are formality (Irvine 2001) and register, as outlined by Agha (2007). The paper looks at Akan palace language from the point of view of the norms an…
Invective language in contemporary Ghanaian politics
This paper addresses the use of invectives in modern Ghanaian politics. Evidence is drawn from public speeches of political activists of the two leading parties of the country, namely: the National Patriotic Party (NPP) and the National Democratic Congress (NDC). The paper analyses at the context as well, i.e. the participants involved, the reaction of the public, and tries to answer the question what makes a public speech or utterance an invecti…
Menstruation as a Verbal Taboo among the Akan of Ghana
This article discusses menstruation as a verbal taboo among the Akan-speakers of Ghana and considers the theory behind this phenomenon. The use of euphemisms is the most popular verbal Taboo Avoidance Technique (TAT) among the Akan, and the euphemisms used for menstruation are outlined. The article then examines the semantic and metaphorical relations between the euphemisms and what they denote. Among the Akan, euphemisms for menstruation follow …
Ntam 'reminiscential oath' taboo in Akan
Ntam 'reminiscential oath' among the Akan of Ghana is a commissive form that has statutory force. In it, the oath-taker evokes the memory of historical events that are dangerous and unpleasant to mention. The statutory force of the oath is accomplished by the evocation of these memories in the community which shares them. This article reviews the types of ntam oaths, the contexts for their use, and their structure
Proverbs in Akan highlife lyrics
Proverbs and stylistic devices of Akwasi Ampofo Agyei's Akan highlife lyrics
This paper examines the stylistic features and proverbs in ɔba nyansafo wɔbu no bɛ na wɔnka no asɛm, 'A wise child is spoken to in proverbs' a popular Ghanaian highlife song by the late Akwasi Ampofo Agyei. This is an area which is still grey in the study of highlife music. The paper basically adopted qualitative methodology through interviews and recordings. The paper combines the theories of language ideology and ethnomusicology, and looks at t…
Language Shift
This paper discusses language shift in Ghana from two perspectives. The first will be language shift from a Ghanaian language to English which is the official language. The second category will be the shift from one or two Ghanaian languages to a third Ghanaian language that has become a lingua franca of an area. The paper will define language shift, and discuss the factors that bring about language shift in general and Ghana in particular. We wi…
Menstruation as a Verbal Taboo among the Akan of Ghana
This article discusses menstruation as a verbal taboo among the Akan-speakers of Ghana and considers the theory behind this phenomenon. The use of euphemisms is the most popular verbal Taboo Avoidance Technique (TAT) among the Akan, and the euphemisms used for menstruation are outlined. The article then examines the semantic and metaphorical relations between the euphemisms and what they denote. Among the Akan, euphemisms for menstruation follow …
Honorifics and Status Indexing in Akan Communication
This paper addresses honorifics as an important aspect of formality, persuasion and politeness in Akan. Akan is a traditional society that attaches greater importance to address forms, honorifics and politeness in speech situations. This paper considers honorifics as a deference system; it treats types of honorifics and their linguistic forms, such as power-based, solidarity, occupational and gender-based honorifics. I shall also look at some of …
The socio-cultural concept of face in Akan communication
The paper examines the metaphorical expressions derived from anim ‘face’ in Akan, a major language in Ghana. It analyses and discusses face metaphoric expressions in relation with the universal concept analysed by Face Theory. The paper projects this concept onto the Akan cultural system and looks at how the concept is used in Akan communicative interaction. The sociolinguistics and pragmatics of anim are considered. In particular, it focuses on …
Invective language in contemporary Ghanaian politics
This paper addresses the use of invectives in modern Ghanaian politics. Evidence is drawn from public speeches of political activists of the two leading parties of the country, namely: the National Patriotic Party (NPP) and the National Democratic Congress (NDC). The paper analyses at the context as well, i.e. the participants involved, the reaction of the public, and tries to answer the question what makes a public speech or utterance an invecti…
Ntam 'reminiscential oath' taboo in Akan
Ntam 'reminiscential oath' among the Akan of Ghana is a commissive form that has statutory force. In it, the oath-taker evokes the memory of historical events that are dangerous and unpleasant to mention. The statutory force of the oath is accomplished by the evocation of these memories in the community which shares them. This article reviews the types of ntam oaths, the contexts for their use, and their structure
Akan Traditional Arbitration
This paper examines the basic components of the process of settlement, types of offences and language of Akan traditional arbitration. The paper also considers arbitration and Akan sociocultural norms and values. The paper finally discusses the status of Akan arbitration within the context of contemporary forms of adjudication, democracy, Westernisation, urbanisation, Christianity and Islam. The paper argues that arbitration is still an alternati…
The pragmatics of Akan greetings
This article addresses greetings as one of the most frequent linguistic interactional routines among the Akan of Ghana. The article will look at the functions, situations, and the major forms of Akan greetings. The article will highlight the major functions of greetings such as the creation of social relationship, commitment to one another in social encounters and manifestation of an individual's communicative competence. It discusses the taxonom…
Language Shift
This paper discusses language shift in Ghana from two perspectives. The first will be language shift from a Ghanaian language to English which is the official language. The second category will be the shift from one or two Ghanaian languages to a third Ghanaian language that has become a lingua franca of an area. The paper will define language shift, and discuss the factors that bring about language shift in general and Ghana in particular. We wi…
The ethno-pragmatics of “amannebɔ” in Akan
Among the Akan, one of the parameters for assessing a person’s communicative competence is to see how much s/he is conversant with giving an account of his/her mission anytime he/she plays the role as a guest, a host, or a spokesperson. The aim of this paper is to discuss the Akan narrative concept called amannebɔ . The paper defines the concept called amannebɔ and what it entails in Akan sociocultural norms and values and goes on to discuss aman…
The Ethnopragmatics of the Akan Palace Language of Ghana
This paper deals with formal language at the chiefly palaces of the Akan people of Ghana. The Akan language is spoken in six regions in the southern parts of Ghana. These areas are inhabited by native Akans and by Ghanaian immigrants representing other ethnic groups. The approaches used in this study are formality (Irvine 2001) and register, as outlined by Agha (2007). The paper looks at Akan palace language from the point of view of the norms an…
The communicative role of silence in Akan
This paper looks at the meaning of silence within the Akan speech community. It discusses two types of silence (1) performative silence and (2) semiotic silence . The positive attributes of silence as a communicative strategy will be explored. The paper outlines the various communicative situations in Akan society in which silence is employed, highlighting religious, social and linguistic aspects. Attention is drawn to indigenous expressions to d…
Bodily state and metaphors relating to ho , ‘body’, in Akan
This paper addresses metaphorical extensions of ho , which means ‘body’ in Akan, a Ghanaian language. In Akan, as in many other languages, body part expressions and bodily functions have extended meanings that still relate to the basic sense of the words. Expressions derived from ho are used to talk about emotions and character traits, perhaps more extensively and pervasively than equivalent lexis in English. The data for this study are taken fro…
The language of Akan herbal drug sellers and advertisers
This paper addresses the language and pragmatic strategies used by Akan herbal drug sellers to persuade would-be-buyers. It adopts the theoretical framework of Weigand’s Mixed Game Model (MGM) and defines persuasion as a variable of competence-in-performance, and language use as the basis of dialogic interaction. It investigates how sellers employ politeness, honorifics, humour, digression, personification, proverbs, metaphors and hyperbole in di…
The ethnopragmatics of Akan advice
This paper discusses Akan Advice under ethnopragmatics. It adopts persuasion, speech acts of directives and expressives, and Akan proverbs to discuss advice with the insight from Akan culture. The adviser expresses some feelings and emotions and directs the advisee to act and behave towards the benefits of the individual, the group or society. The paper taps data from participant observations and audio taped recordings at arbitrations, marriage a…
Proverbs and stylistic devices of Akwasi Ampofo Agyei's Akan highlife lyrics
This paper examines the stylistic features and proverbs in ɔba nyansafo wɔbu no bɛ na wɔnka no asɛm, 'A wise child is spoken to in proverbs' a popular Ghanaian highlife song by the late Akwasi Ampofo Agyei. This is an area which is still grey in the study of highlife music. The paper basically adopted qualitative methodology through interviews and recordings. The paper combines the theories of language ideology and ethnomusicology, and looks at t…
Proverbs in Akan highlife lyrics
Metaphorical euphemisms in death-discourse among the Nzema
This article seeks to deepen our understanding of the cognitive processes in death euphemisms in Nzema, a Kwa language of Ghana. The article highlights the metaphorical “mappings” across conceptual domains, where the concept of death (target domain) is well understood in terms of more physical events such as journey, departure, return, invitation, continuous sleep, lose a fight, etc. (source domain). It is demonstrated that the Nzema conceptualis…
The pragmatics of duabↄ ‘grievance imprecation’ taboo among the Akan
Preview this article: The pragmatics of duabↄ ‘grievance imprecation’ taboo among the Akan, Page 1 of 1 /docserver/preview/fulltext/prag.9.3.03agy-1.gif
Idioms, proverbs and body part expressions on Yiedie “wellbeing” in Akan
This paper investigates the interaction between language, culture, body and emotions. It is an aspect of cognitive semantics that discusses the Akan somatic nature of their body and therefore have existing lexical items, idioms and proverbs to comment on “wellbeing”. It is based on Conceptual Metaphor Theory by Lakoff and Johnson (1980) and Ethnopragmatics by Goddard (2006) . A great parts of Akan expressions for “wellbeing” are tapped from body …
The ethnopragmatics of Akan leave-takings and farewells
The paper examines leave-takings and farewells as linguistic routines in Akan. It emerged from my previous works on ethnopragmatics of Akan linguistic routines, namely apology, requests, greetings, thanking, advice, compliments, etc. This paper adopted Weigand’s (2010) Mixed Game Model, which deals with dialogic action games. It employs qualitative approaches including interviews, observation, and the recording of natural ethnographic events in t…
Domestic Animal Metaphor in Akan
The article examines the animal metaphor (henceforth AM) in Akan by using the conceptual metaphor propounded by Lakoff and Johnson. The article discusses how the Akan use animal behaviour, structure, and movements to represent human behaviour metaphorically. The areas to be covered where animals are used to represent humans based on Akan sociocultural and socio-cognitive perspectives are folktales, proverbs, panegyric poetry, folksongs, and drum …
Enhancing circular construction through procurement
Academic Stress Among Built Environment Students
Identifies and ranks critical academic stressors and coping mechanisms among built environment students in Ghana. • Uncovers eight principal components of stressors and four core coping strategy dimensions using exploratory factor analysis. • Applies a robust methodological approach combining normalization, EFA, and fuzzy synthetic evaluation. • Develops a practical framework aligning stressors with institutional support mechanisms. • Offers acti…
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