Alexander Angsongna
Biographic Data
| ID | 927034 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Alexander Angsongna |
| GIVEN NAMES | Alexander |
| FAMILY NAME | Angsongna |
| SIGNATURE | ANGSONGNA A |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Vienna |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-0978-8039 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 8 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Talking politics
This study explores the use of language in Ghanaian politics as a tool for both persuasion and deception. Against the backdrop of Ghana's vibrant democratic landscape, the research addresses a central question: does political language serve as a means of genuine persuasion or as a vehicle for manipulation? The study examines selected campaign speeches and public statements by John Dramani Mahama of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) and Maham…
Laughing with a Message
This study investigates the communicative power of editorial cartoons in Ghana’s public discourse, focusing on how they inform, critique, and influence sociopolitical narratives. Drawing on a dataset of cartoons by Tilapia—one of the country’s leading cartoonists—published between May 2024 and May 2025, the paper explores how cartoons address themes such as economic hardship, youth addiction, cultural values, environmental degradation, and politi…
Tone in Mabia Languages
The Mabia languages belong to the Niger–Congo family and are spoken primarily across the savannah and Sahelian regions of West Africa, including northern Ghana, Ivory Coast, Togo, Benin, Nigeria, Burkina Faso, Niger, and Mali. Tone plays a crucial role in these languages, shaping both lexical meaning and grammatical structure. This study is a synthesis or an overview of previously described facts about the tonal phenomena in six Mabia languages, …
Framing Wars
In Ghana’s political landscape, actors from both ruling and opposition parties deploy a range of linguistic and rhetorical strategies in their pursuit of political power. Prominent among these is political labeling, a discursive practice used to construct favorable self-images while delegitimizing opponents through derogatory and face-threatening expressions. This study examines how political labeling functions as a strategic tool for identity co…
Phonotactic constraints and learnability
This paper examines vowel harmony in Dagaare using the Tier-Based Strictly Local (TSL) framework, focusing on tongue root, rounding, backness, and height harmonies. While vowel harmony in Niger-Congo languages, particularly Dagaare, has been explored from phonetic, phonological and typological perspectives, computational insights remain limited. The study applies the TSL framework to model the phonotactic constraints governing harmonic patterns, …
Toward the Third Liberation of Africa
This article looks into the resurgence of Pan-Africanism in the Sahel region, driven by bold political rhetoric and radical actions by leaders in Burkina Faso, Mali, and Niger. Amid rising anti-colonial sentiment, these nations are rejecting the remnants of France's neo-colonial influence, marked by efforts such as reducing the prominence of the French language in official contexts, promoting indigenous languages, and fostering regional solidarit…
Dàgáárè (Central)
Dàgáárè /dàgááɹɪ̀/ (ISO 639-3) is a Mabia language (Bodomo 1997) of Niger-Congo family. It is spoken by about 1.5 million The map in Figure 1 shows the areas, in northwestern Ghana and southern Burkina Faso, where Dàgáárè is spoken predominantly. There are four broad dialects of Dàgáárè. These include Northern Dàgáárè [dàgàɹà], spoken in Lawra /lóɹáː/, Nandom /nàndɔ̀ː/ and Burkina Faso; Southern Dàgáárè /wáːlɪ́/, spoken around Kaleo /kàlèó/ and i…
Tone alternation in Dàgáárè verbs
While previous studies on Dàgáárè tone have looked at the nouns, this paper particularly examines tone in verbs, perfective vs imperfective forms. The verbal system has different patterns based on the form of the verb. There are three tone classes for Dàgáárè verbs and for each of the classes, the surface tone pattern it exhibits in the perfective is systematically different from the tone patterns in the imperfective. For the perfectives we have …
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Tone alternation in Dàgáárè verbs
While previous studies on Dàgáárè tone have looked at the nouns, this paper particularly examines tone in verbs, perfective vs imperfective forms. The verbal system has different patterns based on the form of the verb. There are three tone classes for Dàgáárè verbs and for each of the classes, the surface tone pattern it exhibits in the perfective is systematically different from the tone patterns in the imperfective. For the perfectives we have …
Dàgáárè (Central)
Dàgáárè /dàgááɹɪ̀/ (ISO 639-3) is a Mabia language (Bodomo 1997) of Niger-Congo family. It is spoken by about 1.5 million The map in Figure 1 shows the areas, in northwestern Ghana and southern Burkina Faso, where Dàgáárè is spoken predominantly. There are four broad dialects of Dàgáárè. These include Northern Dàgáárè [dàgàɹà], spoken in Lawra /lóɹáː/, Nandom /nàndɔ̀ː/ and Burkina Faso; Southern Dàgáárè /wáːlɪ́/, spoken around Kaleo /kàlèó/ and i…
Phonotactic constraints and learnability
This paper examines vowel harmony in Dagaare using the Tier-Based Strictly Local (TSL) framework, focusing on tongue root, rounding, backness, and height harmonies. While vowel harmony in Niger-Congo languages, particularly Dagaare, has been explored from phonetic, phonological and typological perspectives, computational insights remain limited. The study applies the TSL framework to model the phonotactic constraints governing harmonic patterns, …
Toward the Third Liberation of Africa
This article looks into the resurgence of Pan-Africanism in the Sahel region, driven by bold political rhetoric and radical actions by leaders in Burkina Faso, Mali, and Niger. Amid rising anti-colonial sentiment, these nations are rejecting the remnants of France's neo-colonial influence, marked by efforts such as reducing the prominence of the French language in official contexts, promoting indigenous languages, and fostering regional solidarit…
Talking politics
This study explores the use of language in Ghanaian politics as a tool for both persuasion and deception. Against the backdrop of Ghana's vibrant democratic landscape, the research addresses a central question: does political language serve as a means of genuine persuasion or as a vehicle for manipulation? The study examines selected campaign speeches and public statements by John Dramani Mahama of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) and Maham…
Laughing with a Message
This study investigates the communicative power of editorial cartoons in Ghana’s public discourse, focusing on how they inform, critique, and influence sociopolitical narratives. Drawing on a dataset of cartoons by Tilapia—one of the country’s leading cartoonists—published between May 2024 and May 2025, the paper explores how cartoons address themes such as economic hardship, youth addiction, cultural values, environmental degradation, and politi…
Tone in Mabia Languages
The Mabia languages belong to the Niger–Congo family and are spoken primarily across the savannah and Sahelian regions of West Africa, including northern Ghana, Ivory Coast, Togo, Benin, Nigeria, Burkina Faso, Niger, and Mali. Tone plays a crucial role in these languages, shaping both lexical meaning and grammatical structure. This study is a synthesis or an overview of previously described facts about the tonal phenomena in six Mabia languages, …
Framing Wars
In Ghana’s political landscape, actors from both ruling and opposition parties deploy a range of linguistic and rhetorical strategies in their pursuit of political power. Prominent among these is political labeling, a discursive practice used to construct favorable self-images while delegitimizing opponents through derogatory and face-threatening expressions. This study examines how political labeling functions as a strategic tool for identity co…
Linguistic Variation and Morphology (4 works) · Phonetics and Phonology Research (3 works) · Politics (3 works) · Democracy (2 works) · Discourse analysis (2 works) · Discourse Analysis in Language Studies (2 works) · Language, Metaphor, and Cognition (2 works) · Linguistics (2 works) · Linguistics and Discourse Analysis (2 works) · Philosophy (2 works)