Kwabena Sarfo Sarfo-Kantankah

Biographic Data

ID1059309
NAMEKwabena Sarfo Sarfo-Kantankah
GIVEN NAMESKwabena Sarfo
FAMILY NAMESarfo-Kantankah
SIGNATURESARFO-KANTANKAH K S
AFFILIATIONSUniversity of Cape Coast
ORCID0000-0001-5662-2886
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS6
TOTAL CITATIONS8
AUTHOR COUNT6
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2019
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2024
H-INDEX2

  • The discursive construction of solidarity by Ghanaian female parliamentarians

    Open AccessKwabena Sarfo Sarfo-Kantankah, Richmond S Ngula et al.ARTICLEJournal of Language and Politics2024Cited by: 4References: 42

    Research on issues of women has largely focused attention on, among others, power asymmetries and gender stereotypes, with less emphasis on positive linguistic mechanisms of women. Drawing on a critical discourse analytical approach and using Ghanaian parliamentary debates as data, this paper examines how female members of parliament (MPs) construct solidarity. The paper finds that, first, Ghanaian female MPs construct solidarity by positioning t…

  • The Politics of Questioning: Aspects of UK and Ghanaian parliamentary question types

    Open AccessKwabena Sarfo Sarfo-KantankahARTICLEGhana Journal of Linguistics2022

    In spite of the many authoritative classifications of questions, theexamination of questions in different institutional contexts continues togenerate new and interesting insights into the nature of questions.Research shows that question forms and functions substantially differ ininstitutional contexts such as courtroom, classroom, medical andpolitical/parliamentary contexts. Using data from the UK PrimeMinister’s Questions and Ghanaian Minister’s…

  • The policy or the person? A corpus-based functional analysis of manifestos of two political parties in Ghana

    Open AccessKwabena Sarfo Sarfo-KantankahARTICLEContemporary Journal of African…2021

    Containing the set of policies that political parties stand for and wish to implement if they are elected to govern a country, manifestos are a campaign tool used by political parties to persuade the citizenry to vote in a certain direction. This paper uses corpus-linguistic methods to investigate the key concepts in the manifestos of two Ghanaian political parties, namely: the New Patriotic Party (NPP) and the National democratic Congress (NDC).…

  • The discursive construction of men and women in Ghanaian parliamentary discourse: A corpus-based study

    Open AccessKwabena Sarfo Sarfo-KantankahARTICLEAmpersand2021

    Through corpus-based methods, this study examines Ghanaian parliamentary discourses around the lemmas/the lexemes/the nouns gender, men and women and topics/themes that characterise them. The analysis shows that women are discursively constructed as vulnerable and disadvantaged people who need empowerment through small-scale businesses and increased political participation, which reflects a recognition of women's rights and gender equality/equity…

  • I withdraw and apologise but: Ghanaian parliamentary apologies, the issue of sincerity and acceptance

    Open AccessKwabena Sarfo Sarfo-KantankahARTICLEJournal of Pragmatics2021Cited by: 3References: 11

  • The use of actually in a non-native English parliamentary context: A Corpus Study

    Kwabena Sarfo Sarfo-Kantankah, Ben Kudus YussifARTICLEWORD2019Cited by: 1References: 30

    This paper explores the syntactic and pragmatic uses of actually as a discourse marker in Ghanaian parliamentary debates. Employing a corpus methodological approach, the paper uses a 1.9 million-word corpus of Ghanaian parliamentary data in order to examine the patterns of the use of actually by Ghanaian parliamentarians in their parliamentary debates. In terms of the syntactic position, actually occurs more frequently at the medial position than…