Once Upon a Time in Ghana

Once Upon a Time in Ghana
Author: Anna Cottrell
Publisher: African Books Collective
Total Pages: 98
Release: 2013
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 9964701535

Recorded on location in the Volta Region in Ghana in 2006-07, these stories are the result of collaboration between Anna Cottrell and Agbotadua Togbi Kumassah. Agbotadua Togbi Kumassah translated the Ewe stories into English and Anna Cottrell has retold them in contemporary English for the wider European market. This edition presents the 24 stories in their original form for the Ghanian market.

Nominal Pluralization and Countability in African Varieties of English

Nominal Pluralization and Countability in African Varieties of English
Author: Susanne Mohr
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 155
Release: 2021-10-28
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 1000461416

This book is the first comprehensive analysis of nominal plural marking, its morphosyntax and semantics, across different African varieties of English. Mohr explores the rich diversity in the varieties and how different conceptualizations of the number category are realized across different cultures. The investigation of unstandardized noun plurals in Kenyan, Tanzanian, Ghanaian and Nigerian Englishes is based on a mixed methods design drawing on corpus linguistics, acceptability questionnaires and psycholinguistic experiments. In this vein, the book not only contributes to the description of each of these four varieties, but also sheds light on standardization processes and language change in New Englishes. Importantly, it is a plea for the triangulation of data and mixed methods approaches in World Englishes research, as the combination of these methods grants insight into unforeseen areas of language structures and use. This volume is a useful reference work for students and researchers in World Englishes, varieties of English and African Studies, as well as those interested in linguistic anthropology.

Ghanaian Pidgin English

Ghanaian Pidgin English
Author: Joe Amoako
Publisher: Nova Novinka
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2011
Genre: Ghana
ISBN: 9781612096421

Pidgin has been defined with different criteria by various authors. Two of these criteria are social and structural. The social criterion is that a pidgin arises out of the need for a language as a means of communication when people who do not have a common language come together. The structural criterion is that a pidgin is comprised of reduced structures that evolve to serve as a means of communication. This book is devoted to a literature review on the definition and etymology of pidgin and creole. Definitions to acquaint the reader with these two concepts are presented, which will help to decide whether the language variety being discussed in this work is pidgin or creole, or if it is something entirely different.

The History of Education in Ghana

The History of Education in Ghana
Author: C.K. Graham
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 233
Release: 2013-01-11
Genre: History
ISBN: 1136268197

Published in the year 1971, The History of Education in Ghana is a valuable contribution to the field of History.

Daily Graphic

Daily Graphic
Author: Yaw Boadu-Ayeboafoh
Publisher: Graphic Communications Group
Total Pages: 48
Release: 2006-05-26
Genre:
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English as a Global Language

English as a Global Language
Author: David Crystal
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 227
Release: 2012-03-29
Genre: Foreign Language Study
ISBN: 1107611806

Written in a detailed and fascinating manner, this book is ideal for general readers interested in the English language.

Innovation, Communication and Engineering

Innovation, Communication and Engineering
Author: Teen-Hang Meen
Publisher: CRC Press
Total Pages: 482
Release: 2013-10-08
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 1444154346

This volume represents the proceedings of the 2013 International Conference on Innovation, Communication and Engineering (ICICE 2013). This conference was organized by the China University of Petroleum (Huadong/East China) and the Taiwanese Institute of Knowledge Innovation, and was held in Qingdao, Shandong, P.R. China, October 26 - November 1, 2013. The conference received 653 submitted papers from 10 countries, of which 214 papers were selected by the committees to be presented at ICICE 2013. The conference provided a unified communication platform for researchers in a wide range of fields from information technology, communication science, and applied mathematics, to computer science, advanced material science, design and engineering. This volume enables interdisciplinary collaboration between science and engineering technologists in academia and industry as well as networking internationally. Consists of a book of abstracts (260 pp.) and a USB flash card with full papers (912 pp.).

The Languages of Urban Africa

The Languages of Urban Africa
Author: Fiona Mc Laughlin
Publisher: A&C Black
Total Pages: 502
Release: 2009-08-06
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 1847061168

A rich series of geographically diverse case studies examining the historical and theoretical issues involved in the study of urban African languages.