Benjamin Amoakohene
Biographic Data
| ID | 9447123 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Benjamin Amoakohene |
| GIVEN NAMES | Benjamin |
| FAMILY NAME | Amoakohene |
| SIGNATURE | AMOAKOHENE B |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Health and Allied Sciences |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-2276-9393 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 6 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
An Analysis of Personal Deictic Expressions in Selected Victory Speeches of Ghanaian Presidents
The essential role that language plays in politics has engendered several studies exploring language use across different political subgenres, such as inaugural addresses, concession speeches, campaign speeches, victory speeches, and state-of-the-nation addresses. However, little has been done on the use of personal deixis (person deixis) in Ghanaian presidents’ victory speeches. In filling this gap, this study adopted the qualitative approach us…
Deontic Obligations in Anti-Sexual Harassment Policies in Tertiary Institutions
Sexual harassment in higher education is a pervasive issue that carries serious implications for both institutional reputation and the well-being of victims. To address this, universities have developed anti-sexual harassment policies to guide in managing such incidents. However, the language of these documents can sometimes hinder victims’ willingness to report perpetrators. This study examined the use of deontic modalities in the anti-sexual ha…
“I have known….” A Corpus-driven Study of Personal Pronouns in Letters of Recommendation in an L2 Context
In recent times, there has been an upsurge of scholarly attention on hitherto occluded genres such as the Letter of Recommendation (LoR). Although several studies have been conducted on the LoR, studies on lexico-grammatical features are rare. This study, therefore, adopts a corpus-driven approach to examine the use of personal pronouns (PPs) in LoRs written by Ghanaian academics. A specialized corpus of LoR, totalling approximately twenty thousa…
Exploring incongruity and humour in Linguistic Landscapes in Ghana
In recent times, Linguistic Landscape (LL) research has been extended to cover several variables, domains, modes, and geo-political contexts. Arguably, humour remains understudied in LL research. This article, therefore, examines incongruities in LLs using a corpus of digital signs and incongruous inscriptions gathered across several mediums in urban Ghana. Drawing on the incongruity theory, we examined the levels of incongruities in the corpus. …
Examining Inter-disciplinary Commonalities in the Referents of I, We and You in Classroom Lecturer Talk
Studies have sought to establish the ‘territory of reference’ or ‘patterns of referentialities’ of I, we and you (tri-PP) in academic lectures across disciplinary supercommunities (DSs): Humanities, Social Sciences and Natural Sciences. These studies are largely from L1 context, and also report on only referents common to the three DSs, without giving attention to those at the interface of two DSs. This study, therefore, is the first attempt to e…
Creating Institutional Solidarity
Previous works on the analysis of anthems have focused on unearthing encoded latent meanings through the analysis of linguistic devices such as cohesive devices, deictic expressions, figures of speech, content words and clauses. However, the analysis of institutional anthems as a sub-genre of anthems has received minimal attention in linguistic research. The current study therefore adopts a qualitative exploratory procedure to conduct a transitiv…
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Creating Institutional Solidarity
Previous works on the analysis of anthems have focused on unearthing encoded latent meanings through the analysis of linguistic devices such as cohesive devices, deictic expressions, figures of speech, content words and clauses. However, the analysis of institutional anthems as a sub-genre of anthems has received minimal attention in linguistic research. The current study therefore adopts a qualitative exploratory procedure to conduct a transitiv…
Examining Inter-disciplinary Commonalities in the Referents of I, We and You in Classroom Lecturer Talk
Studies have sought to establish the ‘territory of reference’ or ‘patterns of referentialities’ of I, we and you (tri-PP) in academic lectures across disciplinary supercommunities (DSs): Humanities, Social Sciences and Natural Sciences. These studies are largely from L1 context, and also report on only referents common to the three DSs, without giving attention to those at the interface of two DSs. This study, therefore, is the first attempt to e…
“I have known….” A Corpus-driven Study of Personal Pronouns in Letters of Recommendation in an L2 Context
In recent times, there has been an upsurge of scholarly attention on hitherto occluded genres such as the Letter of Recommendation (LoR). Although several studies have been conducted on the LoR, studies on lexico-grammatical features are rare. This study, therefore, adopts a corpus-driven approach to examine the use of personal pronouns (PPs) in LoRs written by Ghanaian academics. A specialized corpus of LoR, totalling approximately twenty thousa…
Exploring incongruity and humour in Linguistic Landscapes in Ghana
In recent times, Linguistic Landscape (LL) research has been extended to cover several variables, domains, modes, and geo-political contexts. Arguably, humour remains understudied in LL research. This article, therefore, examines incongruities in LLs using a corpus of digital signs and incongruous inscriptions gathered across several mediums in urban Ghana. Drawing on the incongruity theory, we examined the levels of incongruities in the corpus. …
An Analysis of Personal Deictic Expressions in Selected Victory Speeches of Ghanaian Presidents
The essential role that language plays in politics has engendered several studies exploring language use across different political subgenres, such as inaugural addresses, concession speeches, campaign speeches, victory speeches, and state-of-the-nation addresses. However, little has been done on the use of personal deixis (person deixis) in Ghanaian presidents’ victory speeches. In filling this gap, this study adopted the qualitative approach us…
Deontic Obligations in Anti-Sexual Harassment Policies in Tertiary Institutions
Sexual harassment in higher education is a pervasive issue that carries serious implications for both institutional reputation and the well-being of victims. To address this, universities have developed anti-sexual harassment policies to guide in managing such incidents. However, the language of these documents can sometimes hinder victims’ willingness to report perpetrators. This study examined the use of deontic modalities in the anti-sexual ha…
Linguistics (4 works) · Psychology (4 works) · Discourse Analysis in Language Studies (3 works) · Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies (3 works) · Personal pronoun (3 works) · Sociology (3 works) · Deixis (2 works) · History (2 works) · Language, Metaphor, and Cognition (2 works) · Philosophy (2 works)