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Introduction
Esther Asare is currently a PhD student at the Department of Linguistics and Translation, City University of Hong Kong. Esther does research on Kwa languages with interest in language description and typology, language and gender, corpus-based approaches to grammar, Systemic Functional Grammar and Construction Grammar. She is currently working on a usage-based description of the nominal system of Akan, alongside building a corpus for the Asante Twi variety of Akan.
Current institution
Education
August 2019 - May 2022
University of Cape Coast
Field of study
- Ghanaian Languages
August 2014 - May 2018
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Literary writers have always been influenced by their environment. They consciously or subconsciously include society’s take on gender issues in their writings. In many societies, males and females are assigned different roles based on their gender, which they play in consonance with their age limits. Literary writers tend to hide behind language t...
Research has shown that many languages derive emotion expressions from human body parts. However, such studies, especially for African languages, often focus on either the metaphoricity of emotions or the expression of anger, to the almost neglect of the grammar of such expressions. In this paper, we examine the lexicogrammar of Akan (Niger-Congo,...
Gender differences have been recognized in most cultures, but the challenge arises when such differences are misinterpreted as gender inequality, especially to the gross disadvantage of women. One dimension of culture where gender inequality is generally manifested is through language and more specifically the use of proverbs, which are generally b...
This study sought to explore Basic School Ghanaian Language teachers' perceptions of ICT integration in Ghanaian language teaching. The study employed the explanatory sequential mixed method research design. Stratified random sampling was used to obtain data from 205 teachers in the Bono, Bono East and Ahafo region of Ghana. Analysis of data collec...
