Kingsley Cyril Mintah
Biographic Data
| ID | 9009123 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Kingsley Cyril Mintah |
| GIVEN NAMES | Kingsley Cyril |
| FAMILY NAME | Mintah |
| SIGNATURE | MINTAH K C |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Ghana |
| ORCID | 0009-0008-1061-7289 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 6 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Discursive construction of Ghana's digital agenda in (vice) presidential discourse
The electronic age lends itself to a deliberate action towards digitalization and this has led to the surge in discourses of and around digital economies. Scholarly claims of vagueness in African countries’ pursuit of the digital agenda and the political leverage of digitalization discourses by social actors are examined by this research to unveil the discursive constructions of Ghana’s digital agenda and its social actors. Using corpus methods a…
Revisiting a register assumption from SFG perspective
This study tests register theory’s position of extensive similarity in the dominant linguistic features of texts with similar contexts in the face of scholarly claims about the existence of significant linguistic differences in the language of state and private newspapers in Ghana. The data comprised of political editorials published in four leading Ghanaian state and private newspapers published over a period of three months. Using the Systemic …
Move-Structure Analysis of Police Written Witness Statements in Ghana
The police written witness statement is a major evidentiary document that has a direct bearing on the prosecution and adjudication of criminal cases. The present study examines the rhetorical structure of police written witness statements in Ghana as a genre by adopting Bhatia’s genre model to examine 120 statements on alleged criminal cases that were sampled from the Wenchi Division of the Bono Regional Police Command in Ghana. The findings sugg…
An appraisal study of Ghanaian media's attitude towards Britain on the death and burial of Queen Elizabeth II
Considering the recent anti-imperial sentiments that have inspired several agitations in the media landscape of Francophone African countries, the study examines the existence or otherwise of such sentiments in Ghana's media landscape through the media's publications about the death and burial of Queen Elizabeth II. It explores the attitude portrayed by the media through their publications to understand the current political relationship between …
Utilizing attributive patterns as a linguistic classification tool of newspapers
The indices for the classification of newspapers have often focused on agenda-setting roles, economic position and size of newspapers, among others. Concerning newspapers in Africa, Moehler and Singh (2011) and Hasty (2005) assert that the only index for the classification of newspapers is ownership. The study, therefore, focuses on the patterns of the attributive mode of the transitivity system of Systemic Functional Grammar to propose a linguis…
Rhetorical structural patterns of postgraduate theses abstracts of related disciplines
The study of research abstracts has gained significant scholarly attention as part of genre studies due to the communicative importance of abstracts in constructing academic knowledge. This study contributes to the discussion by examining the structural organization and lexico-grammatical features of ninety (90) postgraduate theses abstracts in the disciplines of English Language studies, Literature studies, and Linguistics studies (Ghanaian Lang…
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An appraisal study of Ghanaian media's attitude towards Britain on the death and burial of Queen Elizabeth II
Considering the recent anti-imperial sentiments that have inspired several agitations in the media landscape of Francophone African countries, the study examines the existence or otherwise of such sentiments in Ghana's media landscape through the media's publications about the death and burial of Queen Elizabeth II. It explores the attitude portrayed by the media through their publications to understand the current political relationship between …
Utilizing attributive patterns as a linguistic classification tool of newspapers
The indices for the classification of newspapers have often focused on agenda-setting roles, economic position and size of newspapers, among others. Concerning newspapers in Africa, Moehler and Singh (2011) and Hasty (2005) assert that the only index for the classification of newspapers is ownership. The study, therefore, focuses on the patterns of the attributive mode of the transitivity system of Systemic Functional Grammar to propose a linguis…
Rhetorical structural patterns of postgraduate theses abstracts of related disciplines
The study of research abstracts has gained significant scholarly attention as part of genre studies due to the communicative importance of abstracts in constructing academic knowledge. This study contributes to the discussion by examining the structural organization and lexico-grammatical features of ninety (90) postgraduate theses abstracts in the disciplines of English Language studies, Literature studies, and Linguistics studies (Ghanaian Lang…
Revisiting a register assumption from SFG perspective
This study tests register theory’s position of extensive similarity in the dominant linguistic features of texts with similar contexts in the face of scholarly claims about the existence of significant linguistic differences in the language of state and private newspapers in Ghana. The data comprised of political editorials published in four leading Ghanaian state and private newspapers published over a period of three months. Using the Systemic …
Move-Structure Analysis of Police Written Witness Statements in Ghana
The police written witness statement is a major evidentiary document that has a direct bearing on the prosecution and adjudication of criminal cases. The present study examines the rhetorical structure of police written witness statements in Ghana as a genre by adopting Bhatia’s genre model to examine 120 statements on alleged criminal cases that were sampled from the Wenchi Division of the Bono Regional Police Command in Ghana. The findings sugg…
Discursive construction of Ghana's digital agenda in (vice) presidential discourse
The electronic age lends itself to a deliberate action towards digitalization and this has led to the surge in discourses of and around digital economies. Scholarly claims of vagueness in African countries’ pursuit of the digital agenda and the political leverage of digitalization discourses by social actors are examined by this research to unveil the discursive constructions of Ghana’s digital agenda and its social actors. Using corpus methods a…
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