Gladys Nyarko Ansah
Biographic Data
| ID | 913108 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Gladys Nyarko Ansah |
| GIVEN NAMES | Gladys Nyarko |
| FAMILY NAME | Ansah |
| SIGNATURE | ANSAH G N |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Ghana |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-6431-7822 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 4 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 9 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2014 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Women and Collective Resistance against Illegal Small-Scale Gold Mining, Galamsey, in Ghana
Illegal small-scale gold mining in Ghana has caused severe environmental damage, yet state interventions have often failed to stop it. This paper examines how women in Akyem Asunafo, an Akan farming community in the Atiwa West District, resisted prospective mining by drawing on cultural ideals of women as custodians of land and future generations. The study uses primary and secondary sources. It combines historical analysis of African women’s env…
Cultural conceptualisations and spatial cognition in Ghanaian English
Kantian philosophy describes space as a universal cognitive primitive because all humans contend with attributes of space as they navigate their environments and communicate the location of things or their location in relation to the location of things. These spatial conceptualisations are encoded in human language and their grammars as either prepositions or postpositions, where different cultures and languages conceptualise space differently be…
Fighting a global pandemic and local stigmatisation
Ghana’s President has used WAR-framed metaphors in announcing and explaining both the notion of COVID-19 and the measures his government outlined to curb its spread. This paper explores the potential effects the various conceptual mappings in the WAR-framed communication by the President had on the general public in dealing with a global pandemic in a local context. This is achieved by linking the mappings in the WAR-framed communication to the a…
Negotiating Linguistic Disruptions and Connections in Migratory Contexts
This article employs ethnographic methods to investigate communicative practices that shape the linguistic repertoires of child migrants in Agbogbloshie, an urban market in Ghana. Similar studies discuss the relationship between language and migration by focusing on language shift and loss among migrants; this article argues that migrants in complex linguistically diverse spaces-motivated by both social and economic dynamics of their space-make l…
A linguistic landscape of the central business district of Accra
Using the mixed method research approach, this study investigated the linguistic landscape of the central business district of Accra, Ghana. The study employed both the Ethnolinguistic Vitality Theory (EV) and the Place Semiotics Theory to explore the types of signage displayed by shop owners in the Makola market, the languages used on these signs, the dominant language(s) on the signs and how the use of language reflects the ethnolinguistic vita…
Exploring Ethos in Contemporary Ghana
In this article, we discuss contemporary Ghanaian ethos reflecting on female sexual behavior as a discursive construction that shifts and changes across time and space. Borrowing from Nedra Reynold’s concept of ethos as a location, we examine the various social and discourse spaces of different rhetors on female sexual behavior in Ghana and how each establishes ethos through identity formations and language use from various positions of authority…
Dumsor and Dumsor -Based Neologisms
Words are of two kinds—simplex and complex words. Whereas both are important parts of the mental lexicon, the latter are of special interest to psycholinguists and morphologists because their internal structure may be seen as a window into how morphological knowledge is encoded in the mind (Gagné & Spalding, 2006; Jackendoff, 2010; Pinker, 1999). During a period of protracted unplanned power outages in Ghana, a complex word was formed to denote t…
The choice of English as a home language in urban Ghana
In this paper, we investigate the choice of English as a home language in Ghana, a multilingual nation where 81 languages are spoken by a population of about 27 million people. In the past, while English was reserved as the de facto language of official domains, e.g., government business and education, Ghanaian languages were used in informal domains such as homes, markets and churches. Recent research and observations show a gradual shift from t…
Culture in Embodied Cognition
This article examines the role of culture in the metaphorical/metonymic conceptualizations of fear, a primary emotion, in two languages—Akan (a West African, Kwa language) and English. The article adopts the general framework of conceptual metaphor theory (CMT) to compare and contrast the differences and/or similarities in the conceptualizations as well as the language-specific construals or elaborations of shared conceptual metaphors of fear in …
The choice of English as a home language in urban Ghana
In this paper, we investigate the choice of English as a home language in Ghana, a multilingual nation where 81 languages are spoken by a population of about 27 million people. In the past, while English was reserved as the de facto language of official domains, e.g., government business and education, Ghanaian languages were used in informal domains such as homes, markets and churches. Recent research and observations show a gradual shift from t…
Negotiating Linguistic Disruptions and Connections in Migratory Contexts
This article employs ethnographic methods to investigate communicative practices that shape the linguistic repertoires of child migrants in Agbogbloshie, an urban market in Ghana. Similar studies discuss the relationship between language and migration by focusing on language shift and loss among migrants; this article argues that migrants in complex linguistically diverse spaces-motivated by both social and economic dynamics of their space-make l…
Culture in Embodied Cognition
This article examines the role of culture in the metaphorical/metonymic conceptualizations of fear, a primary emotion, in two languages—Akan (a West African, Kwa language) and English. The article adopts the general framework of conceptual metaphor theory (CMT) to compare and contrast the differences and/or similarities in the conceptualizations as well as the language-specific construals or elaborations of shared conceptual metaphors of fear in …
The choice of English as a home language in urban Ghana
In this paper, we investigate the choice of English as a home language in Ghana, a multilingual nation where 81 languages are spoken by a population of about 27 million people. In the past, while English was reserved as the de facto language of official domains, e.g., government business and education, Ghanaian languages were used in informal domains such as homes, markets and churches. Recent research and observations show a gradual shift from t…
A linguistic landscape of the central business district of Accra
Using the mixed method research approach, this study investigated the linguistic landscape of the central business district of Accra, Ghana. The study employed both the Ethnolinguistic Vitality Theory (EV) and the Place Semiotics Theory to explore the types of signage displayed by shop owners in the Makola market, the languages used on these signs, the dominant language(s) on the signs and how the use of language reflects the ethnolinguistic vita…
Exploring Ethos in Contemporary Ghana
In this article, we discuss contemporary Ghanaian ethos reflecting on female sexual behavior as a discursive construction that shifts and changes across time and space. Borrowing from Nedra Reynold’s concept of ethos as a location, we examine the various social and discourse spaces of different rhetors on female sexual behavior in Ghana and how each establishes ethos through identity formations and language use from various positions of authority…
Dumsor and Dumsor -Based Neologisms
Words are of two kinds—simplex and complex words. Whereas both are important parts of the mental lexicon, the latter are of special interest to psycholinguists and morphologists because their internal structure may be seen as a window into how morphological knowledge is encoded in the mind (Gagné & Spalding, 2006; Jackendoff, 2010; Pinker, 1999). During a period of protracted unplanned power outages in Ghana, a complex word was formed to denote t…
Negotiating Linguistic Disruptions and Connections in Migratory Contexts
This article employs ethnographic methods to investigate communicative practices that shape the linguistic repertoires of child migrants in Agbogbloshie, an urban market in Ghana. Similar studies discuss the relationship between language and migration by focusing on language shift and loss among migrants; this article argues that migrants in complex linguistically diverse spaces-motivated by both social and economic dynamics of their space-make l…
Fighting a global pandemic and local stigmatisation
Ghana’s President has used WAR-framed metaphors in announcing and explaining both the notion of COVID-19 and the measures his government outlined to curb its spread. This paper explores the potential effects the various conceptual mappings in the WAR-framed communication by the President had on the general public in dealing with a global pandemic in a local context. This is achieved by linking the mappings in the WAR-framed communication to the a…
Cultural conceptualisations and spatial cognition in Ghanaian English
Kantian philosophy describes space as a universal cognitive primitive because all humans contend with attributes of space as they navigate their environments and communicate the location of things or their location in relation to the location of things. These spatial conceptualisations are encoded in human language and their grammars as either prepositions or postpositions, where different cultures and languages conceptualise space differently be…
Women and Collective Resistance against Illegal Small-Scale Gold Mining, Galamsey, in Ghana
Illegal small-scale gold mining in Ghana has caused severe environmental damage, yet state interventions have often failed to stop it. This paper examines how women in Akyem Asunafo, an Akan farming community in the Atiwa West District, resisted prospective mining by drawing on cultural ideals of women as custodians of land and future generations. The study uses primary and secondary sources. It combines historical analysis of African women’s env…
Sociology (6 works) · Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies (5 works) · Linguistics (5 works) · Psychology (4 works) · Geography (3 works) · Language, Metaphor, and Cognition (3 works) · Multilingual Education and Policy (3 works) · Political science (3 works) · Population (3 works) · Anthropology (2 works)