Emmanuel Mensah Bonsu
Biographic Data
| ID | 4539312 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Emmanuel Mensah Bonsu |
| GIVEN NAMES | Emmanuel Mensah |
| FAMILY NAME | Bonsu |
| SIGNATURE | BONSU E M |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Cape Coast |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-7867-8204 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 13 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Evidential constructions in Ghanaian parliamentary discourse
While previous studies have examined various aspects of Ghanaian parliamentary discourse, little attention has been paid to evidential constructions. To address this gap, this corpus-based study examines four first-person evidential constructions ( I think , I believe , I know , I mean ) in Ghanaian parliamentary discourse and traces changes in their functions over time. A corpus of 1,729 parliamentary Hansards (41.7 million words) spanning 2005–…
‘Sustainable Development’ or ‘Development Sustainability’? A Corpus Linguistic Analysis of Hong Kong Legislative Discourse (2016–2021)
Grounded in the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) framework, I examined sustainability discourse in the Hong Kong Legislative Council (LegCo) Hansards. Using LancsBox X, I employed collocational and concordance analyses to investigate a 15.7‐million‐word Hansard corpus. Analyses revealed a strong economic prioritisation, with ‘development’ as the most frequent collocate. Socio‐environmental concerns were discussed within specific sectors, incl…
Highlighting significance in doctoral thesis conclusions
The conclusion chapter of a doctoral thesis is important to the thesis's overall reception and potential impact. However, the linguistic resources used to highlight research significance in conclusion chapters remain underexplored. This study employed SciBERT, a language model pre-trained on scientific texts, to computationally analyse adjectives of importance in 150 doctoral theses across the disciplines of applied linguistics, physics, and psyc…
A cross-disciplinary study of value arguments in doctoral theses submitted to universities in Hong Kong
The doctoral thesis is a key academic genre that documents doctoral students' socialisation into their disciplinary knowledge-making practices and their contributions to disciplinary knowledge. However, little attention has been paid to how doctoral students promote the value of their research in their theses. Using Carter's value arguments (VAs) framework, this study explored how doctoral students construct VAs strategically to underscore and pr…
Moralizing Illegal Mining
Using Martin and White's appraisal framework, this study investigated attitudinal resources in Ghanaian media reportage on galamsey. Analysis of 502 media reports revealed a discourse dominated by judgement resources, constructing galamsey as a moral and ethical issue. The study identified competing narratives around environmental devastation, governance failure, and socioeconomic injustice. The findings show how the media reports' judgement fram…
Trapping my way up
Taking cognisance of the social and linguistic power of trap music and its song lyrics as crucial avenues for language use in society, this study set out to conduct a corpus-assisted discourse analysis of selected song lyrics of Black Sherif. The study synergised Wmatrix and a socio-cognitive approach to CDA to interpret the song lyrics. The analyses revealed three linguistic strategies: (a) pronouns; (b) Ghanaian Student Pidgin; and (c) metaphor…
Indigenous Place Names
Most toponomastics research has ignored the importance of indigenous places as sites for identity and other cultural and social significance. Using Cape Coast as a historical site of the transatlantic slave trade, this study explores the origin, meanings and relevance of indigenous place names in the suburbs of Cape Coast, Ghana. Through an interdisciplinary approach that synergizes an interview with a chief, who is a prosopographer, historical d…
Visions and missions
Between tradition and modernity
The recurrent themes of identity and social belongingness, and tension between tradition and modernity reflect the complexities across generations of post-colonial African writers, mainly in Ghana. This study explores how address and reference terms (ARTs), as constructs of naming practices, used for and by characters in Armah’s Fragments, Aidoo’s Changes, and Gyasi’s Homegoing reiterate the themes of identity and social belongingness, and tensio…
Gendering visions of the postcolonial modernist state through names
Re-visioning Ayi Kwei Armah’s Fragments
The numerous literary explorations of Ayi Kwei Armah’s novels reveal his aesthetic creativity and relevance in addressing African and diasporic issues that have contemporary relevance. Guided by two objectives, this corpus study set out to analyse the narration and thematisation of Armah’s Fragments (1970) through part-of-speech and semantic domain tags using Wmatrix. We compared Fragments as a target corpus with two other novels by Armah. Result…
Genre Analysis of Abstracts of Research Articles Published in Biostatistics
Genre studies have contributed to revealing the communicative purposes and structural properties particular to specific discourse communities. Research articles (RA) have been the focus of most genre studies for the past four decades. RA abstract is important because it summarizes the work, persuades readers, and ‘sells’ the article locally and internationally. An emerging academic discipline that has been under studied is Biostatistics. The stud…
A Postcolonial Feminist Reading of J. M. Coetzee’s Waiting for the Barbarians (2000)
Literary texts and kinds of research have reframed postcolonial experiences to capture several issues in society. On that note, Coetzee’s Waiting for the Barbarians has chalked many successes in gaining the attention of literary scholars to subject the text to interpretation using varied literary approaches, except postcolonial feminism. The postcolonial aspect of the feminist issues in the text is fundamental. The thrust of this paper is to anal…
Re-visioning Ayi Kwei Armah’s Fragments
The numerous literary explorations of Ayi Kwei Armah’s novels reveal his aesthetic creativity and relevance in addressing African and diasporic issues that have contemporary relevance. Guided by two objectives, this corpus study set out to analyse the narration and thematisation of Armah’s Fragments (1970) through part-of-speech and semantic domain tags using Wmatrix. We compared Fragments as a target corpus with two other novels by Armah. Result…
Genre Analysis of Abstracts of Research Articles Published in Biostatistics
Genre studies have contributed to revealing the communicative purposes and structural properties particular to specific discourse communities. Research articles (RA) have been the focus of most genre studies for the past four decades. RA abstract is important because it summarizes the work, persuades readers, and ‘sells’ the article locally and internationally. An emerging academic discipline that has been under studied is Biostatistics. The stud…
A Postcolonial Feminist Reading of J. M. Coetzee’s Waiting for the Barbarians (2000)
Literary texts and kinds of research have reframed postcolonial experiences to capture several issues in society. On that note, Coetzee’s Waiting for the Barbarians has chalked many successes in gaining the attention of literary scholars to subject the text to interpretation using varied literary approaches, except postcolonial feminism. The postcolonial aspect of the feminist issues in the text is fundamental. The thrust of this paper is to anal…
Indigenous Place Names
Most toponomastics research has ignored the importance of indigenous places as sites for identity and other cultural and social significance. Using Cape Coast as a historical site of the transatlantic slave trade, this study explores the origin, meanings and relevance of indigenous place names in the suburbs of Cape Coast, Ghana. Through an interdisciplinary approach that synergizes an interview with a chief, who is a prosopographer, historical d…
Visions and missions
Between tradition and modernity
The recurrent themes of identity and social belongingness, and tension between tradition and modernity reflect the complexities across generations of post-colonial African writers, mainly in Ghana. This study explores how address and reference terms (ARTs), as constructs of naming practices, used for and by characters in Armah’s Fragments, Aidoo’s Changes, and Gyasi’s Homegoing reiterate the themes of identity and social belongingness, and tensio…
Gendering visions of the postcolonial modernist state through names
Re-visioning Ayi Kwei Armah’s Fragments
The numerous literary explorations of Ayi Kwei Armah’s novels reveal his aesthetic creativity and relevance in addressing African and diasporic issues that have contemporary relevance. Guided by two objectives, this corpus study set out to analyse the narration and thematisation of Armah’s Fragments (1970) through part-of-speech and semantic domain tags using Wmatrix. We compared Fragments as a target corpus with two other novels by Armah. Result…
A cross-disciplinary study of value arguments in doctoral theses submitted to universities in Hong Kong
The doctoral thesis is a key academic genre that documents doctoral students' socialisation into their disciplinary knowledge-making practices and their contributions to disciplinary knowledge. However, little attention has been paid to how doctoral students promote the value of their research in their theses. Using Carter's value arguments (VAs) framework, this study explored how doctoral students construct VAs strategically to underscore and pr…
Moralizing Illegal Mining
Using Martin and White's appraisal framework, this study investigated attitudinal resources in Ghanaian media reportage on galamsey. Analysis of 502 media reports revealed a discourse dominated by judgement resources, constructing galamsey as a moral and ethical issue. The study identified competing narratives around environmental devastation, governance failure, and socioeconomic injustice. The findings show how the media reports' judgement fram…
Trapping my way up
Taking cognisance of the social and linguistic power of trap music and its song lyrics as crucial avenues for language use in society, this study set out to conduct a corpus-assisted discourse analysis of selected song lyrics of Black Sherif. The study synergised Wmatrix and a socio-cognitive approach to CDA to interpret the song lyrics. The analyses revealed three linguistic strategies: (a) pronouns; (b) Ghanaian Student Pidgin; and (c) metaphor…
Evidential constructions in Ghanaian parliamentary discourse
While previous studies have examined various aspects of Ghanaian parliamentary discourse, little attention has been paid to evidential constructions. To address this gap, this corpus-based study examines four first-person evidential constructions ( I think , I believe , I know , I mean ) in Ghanaian parliamentary discourse and traces changes in their functions over time. A corpus of 1,729 parliamentary Hansards (41.7 million words) spanning 2005–…
‘Sustainable Development’ or ‘Development Sustainability’? A Corpus Linguistic Analysis of Hong Kong Legislative Discourse (2016–2021)
Grounded in the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) framework, I examined sustainability discourse in the Hong Kong Legislative Council (LegCo) Hansards. Using LancsBox X, I employed collocational and concordance analyses to investigate a 15.7‐million‐word Hansard corpus. Analyses revealed a strong economic prioritisation, with ‘development’ as the most frequent collocate. Socio‐environmental concerns were discussed within specific sectors, incl…
Highlighting significance in doctoral thesis conclusions
The conclusion chapter of a doctoral thesis is important to the thesis's overall reception and potential impact. However, the linguistic resources used to highlight research significance in conclusion chapters remain underexplored. This study employed SciBERT, a language model pre-trained on scientific texts, to computationally analyse adjectives of importance in 150 doctoral theses across the disciplines of applied linguistics, physics, and psyc…
Sociology (6 works) · Discourse Analysis in Language Studies (5 works) · Philosophy (5 works) · Art (4 works) · Linguistics (4 works) · Literature (4 works) · Political science (4 works) · Aesthetics (3 works) · Anthropology (3 works) · Discourse analysis (3 works)