Juliet Oppong-Asare Ansah
Biographic Data
| ID | 9730442 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Juliet Oppong-Asare Ansah |
| GIVEN NAMES | Juliet Oppong-Asare |
| FAMILY NAME | Ansah |
| SIGNATURE | ANSAH J O |
| AFFILIATIONS | Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-8523-0862 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 4 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 4 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
“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…
Examining graphemic and lexical anglicisms in Twi for academic purposes in textbooks written in Twi
This paper examines graphemic and lexical borrowings in Twi for Academic Purposes (TAP). Textbooks written in Asante Twi by some renowned scholars in the language constituted the dataset for this study. The textbooks were read and all instances of anglicisms or English features borrowed into Twi were collected. The borrowed-features were identified by drawing on our native speaker and scholarly competencies. The dataset was analyzed by drawing on…
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…
The Use of Persuasive Language in Christian Fundraising
This paper is an expose on how fundraisers in some churches in Ghana use persuasive language, also referred to as ‘loaded words’ on their congregation to stir up their emotions to adhere to their demands and succumb to their instructions and directions. It specifically recounts persuasive expressions or utterances used by personalities who solicit funds from the congregation during fundraising ceremonies and discusses the effectiveness of these e…
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The Use of Persuasive Language in Christian Fundraising
This paper is an expose on how fundraisers in some churches in Ghana use persuasive language, also referred to as ‘loaded words’ on their congregation to stir up their emotions to adhere to their demands and succumb to their instructions and directions. It specifically recounts persuasive expressions or utterances used by personalities who solicit funds from the congregation during fundraising ceremonies and discusses the effectiveness of these e…
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…
Examining graphemic and lexical anglicisms in Twi for academic purposes in textbooks written in Twi
This paper examines graphemic and lexical borrowings in Twi for Academic Purposes (TAP). Textbooks written in Asante Twi by some renowned scholars in the language constituted the dataset for this study. The textbooks were read and all instances of anglicisms or English features borrowed into Twi were collected. The borrowed-features were identified by drawing on our native speaker and scholarly competencies. The dataset was analyzed by drawing on…
“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…
Linguistics (4 works) · Psychology (4 works) · History (3 works) · Sociology (3 works) · Computer Science (2 works) · Discourse Analysis in Language Studies (2 works) · Personal pronoun (2 works) · Anthropology (1 work) · Discipline (1 work) · EFL/ESL Teaching and Learning (1 work)