Lawrence K Owusu‐ansah
Biographic Data
| ID | 126377 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Lawrence K Owusu‐ansah |
| GIVEN NAMES | Lawrence K |
| FAMILY NAME | Owusu‐ansah |
| SIGNATURE | ANSAH L K O |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 1 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 1 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1994 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1994 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Modality in Ghanaian and American personal letters
This paper reports a comparative study of the ways in which modality as a semantic feature is expressed in one nonnative variety of English and one native variety of English. A set of twenty-two informal letters written by Americans were compared with another set of twenty-two written by Ghanaians in respect of the distribution and use of modal words and expressions in the data. Given other differences such as a reading index for the American set…
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Modality in Ghanaian and American personal letters
This paper reports a comparative study of the ways in which modality as a semantic feature is expressed in one nonnative variety of English and one native variety of English. A set of twenty-two informal letters written by Americans were compared with another set of twenty-two written by Ghanaians in respect of the distribution and use of modal words and expressions in the data. Given other differences such as a reading index for the American set…
American English (1 work) · Artificial Intelligence (1 work) · Computer Science (1 work) · Discourse Analysis in Language Studies (1 work) · Feature (linguistics (1 work) · Index (typography (1 work) · Linguistic Variation and Morphology (1 work) · Linguistics (1 work) · Mathematics (1 work) · Modal (1 work)