item: #1 of 25
          id: ljh-119629
      author: Beyad, M; Roshnavand, F
       title: The instrumentality of the black “Other” in primitivist modernism: A critical analysis of modern dance and modernist language
        date: 2015-07-20
       words: 6116
      flesch: 52
     summary: Up to that time, black culture was shown by colonialist discourse to be demonic, backwards and without any kind of cultural presence. To put it concisely, the modernist fascination with the Other was not translated into the sociopolitical scene because primitivism, in the words of Lemuel A. Johnson, was “a one dimensional taste for the exotic and the picturesque” which lionized only certain aspects of black culture and identity (cited in Sweeney, 2004: 3).
    keywords: baker; black; body; century; civilization; dance; language; modernism; north; primitive; primitivist; sweeney; war; words; world
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        item: #2 of 25
          id: ljh-121520
      author: Osam, K
       title: Imaging a President: Rawlings in The Ghanaian Chronicle
        date: 2015-09-02
       words: 7932
      flesch: 63
     summary: Through manipulating various discourse structures, writers of these letters project an anti- Rwalings ideology as a means of resisting what they see as political dominance reflected in Rawlings rule. With the preceding as the background, the goal of this study is to examine the political resistance to the rule of Rawlings as expressed in Letters to the Editor in the leading private newspaper in Ghana in the twilight years of Rawlings' rule as Head of StateThe Ghanaian Chronicle.
    keywords: analysis; corruption; country; dijk; discourse; ghana; government; letters; media; power; president; rawlings; rule; state; van
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        item: #3 of 25
          id: ljh-121540
      author: Sàláwli, AK
       title: On the Structure of the Qualifier System in Ọ̀kỌ́́-Ọ́́sànyèn
        date: 2015-09-03
       words: 3857
      flesch: 67
     summary: AyQ su 'A red dog which AyQ has' 3 Dog red RELAyc)have d. uw6 c)yanyan c)n~b~ 'that red dog' 4 Dog red that 178 Legan Journal of the HUMANITIES Volume 19 (2008) e. igila QlQlQr~ t¢¢r¢ ufQmbqr¢ 'seven long thin tubers of yam' 1 1 2 yam long thin seven (21 b) introduces numeral qualifiers as being the closest to the head-word and requires it to be followed by descriptive, relative clause and demonstrative qualifiers. nab¢ The fifth house 2 4 House fifth that (21 c) introduces the relative clause qualifier immediately following the head-word and states that it can only be followed by another relative clause and demonstrative qualifiers.
    keywords: clause; head; house; journal; language; noun; qkq; qsanyen; qualifiers; relative
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        item: #4 of 25
          id: ljh-121570
      author: Dako, K; Kodie, GF
       title: A Look at how Students in the University of Ghana Realise Final Stops in Monosyllabic Words
        date: 2015-09-03
       words: 3829
      flesch: 82
     summary: Introduction This paper attempts to find out how students at the University of Ghana treat final stops, especially in monosyllabic words. 2. attempted to determine the prevalence of glottal stops (GS) as final- stop substitutes; and 3. wanted to find out whether the subsequent sound and/or preceding sound influences the selection of final stop or not.
    keywords: deviance; females; males; stop
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        item: #5 of 25
          id: ljh-135451
      author: Ansah, Mercy Akrofi
       title: Language Choice in Multilingual Communities: The Case of Larteh, Ghana
        date: 2016-05-11
       words: 8194
      flesch: 62
     summary: Keywords: language choice, multilingualism, education, tradition, Christianity This paper explores factors that inform language choices that are made by multilingual speakers in Larteh. Language choice of pupils was quite different, with English language dominating in the answers that pupils gave.
    keywords: choice; church; community; english; humanities; journal; language; language choice; larteh; legon; legon journal; leteh; school; twi; use
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        item: #6 of 25
          id: ljh-139781
      author: Afeadie, Philip Atsu
       title: Language of power: Pidgin in the colonial governance of Northern Nigeria
        date: 2016-07-18
       words: 8189
      flesch: 50
     summary: Thus, Company officials elevated some of the local people to the position of political agents, the term denoting distinguished messenger-interpreters. As intermediaries, political agents assisted government diplomacy and helped to establish and maintain relations between the Company and the traditional rulers, reminiscent of Africans who served as brokers between European traders and African merchants during the pre-colonial period.
    keywords: administration; afeadie; agents; colonial; english; government; humanities; journal; language; legon; legon journal; nigeria; northern; officials; people; pidgin
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        item: #7 of 25
          id: ljh-157907
      author: Ayoola, Kehinde A.; Soneye, Taiwo O.
       title: Mother Tongue Eclipsing in the Linguistic Repertoire of Yoruba/English Bilingual Children in Nigeria
        date: 2017-06-19
       words: 7561
      flesch: 48
     summary: The inferior status given to Nigerian mother tongues by the Nigerian authorities has serious implications for the children who grow up with the mindset that Nigerian languages do not count. Influence of environment on a child’s acquisition of English as a second language and the gradual extinction of Nigerian languages: A study of children of selected schools in Choba, Nigeria.
    keywords: children; english; humanities; language; legon journal; mother; nigeria; parents; soneye; use; yoruba
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        item: #8 of 25
          id: ljh-163867
      author: Agyekum, Kofi
       title: The Ethnosemantics and Proverbs of ohia, ‘‘poverty’’ in Akan1
        date: 2017-10-31
       words: 10229
      flesch: 70
     summary: Some relate specifically to poverty, poor persons, money, and the power of money. Nsɛmfua titire: Akan, ohia, kasa adwenemusɛm, nhyehyɛeɛ ne amammerɛ nnyinaso4, mmɛ Introduction: Definition and Factors of Poverty The UN (1998) defines poverty as follows:
    keywords: agyekum; akan; humanities; ideology; individual; journal; language; legon; legon journal; money; ohia; ohiani; people; person; poverty; power; proverbs; social; society; use
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        item: #9 of 25
          id: ljh-173261
      author: Aboh, Romanus
       title: Linguistic choices and transcultural identity construction in Mary Specht’s Migratory animals
        date: 2018-06-08
       words: 9187
      flesch: 57
     summary: In the context of transcultural identity construction, linguistic identities describe ‘the sense of belonging to a community as mediated through the symbolic resource of language, or to the varying ways in which we come to understand our language Aboh, R./ Legon Journal of the Humanities 29.1 (2018) Legon Journal of the Humanities 29.1 (2018) Page | 6 ourselves’ (Park, 2012, p. 1080). Linguistic identities.
    keywords: aboh; english; flannery; humanities; identity; journal; kunle; language; legon; legon journal; nigerian; r./; specht; use
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        item: #10 of 25
          id: ljh-250338
      author: Koller, Veronika 
       title: Crisis communications at the start of the Covid-19 pandemic: A case study of the Ghanaian president’s fourth update on coronavirus
        date: 2023-06-29
       words: 10149
      flesch: 49
     summary: Covid-19 communications have been studied for several individual countries, and there are a few multi-country studies as well (see section 2, Crisis communication and Covid-19). Covid-19 case studies Several studies on individual countries have applied a crisis communication lens to describe, assess and interpret government communication during the Covid-19 pandemic.
    keywords: address; analysis; communication; covid-19; crisis; ghana; government; humanities; journal; koller; legon; legon journal; page; pandemic; president; public
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        item: #11 of 25
          id: ljh-250339
      author: Pedavoah, Emma Kusuoba ; Ansah , Gladys Nyarko 
       title: Fighting a global pandemic and local stigmatisation: War metaphors in presidential update speeches and their effect on attitudes to COVID -19 (Patients) in Ghana
        date: 2023-06-29
       words: 9557
      flesch: 55
     summary: Issue 34.1.indd Legon Journal of the Humanities 34.1 (2023) Page 36 Fighting a global pandemic and local stigmatisation: War metaphors in presidential update speeches and their eff ect on attitudes to COVID -19 (Patients) in Ghana Emma Kusuoba Pedavoah PhD Candidate Department of English University of Ghana, Legon, Ghana Email: ekpedavoah@st.ug.edu.gh Gladys Nyarko Ansah Associate Professor Department of English University of Ghana, Legon, Ghana Email: gansah@ug.edu.gh Submitted: September 14, 2022/ Accepted: April 26, 2023 / Even though WAR metaphors are common in social and political life in general, the metaphorical conceptualisation of DISEASE as WAR appears to be dominant health discourses (Otieno et al., 2016).
    keywords: covid-19; ghana; health; humanities; journal; legon; metaphor; pandemic; president; stigmatisation; update; virus; war
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        item: #12 of 25
          id: ljh-250340
      author: Agbo, James Kofi ; Kaiza, Elias Kossi 
       title: Les défis de l’évaluation du français langue étrangère en ligne : le cas de l’Université du Ghana
        date: 2023-06-29
       words: 7117
      flesch: 55
     summary: Qu’est-ce qui explique la mauvaise performance des étudiants lors des évaluations semestrielles écrites en ligne ? Tableau 3 : Outils numériques utilisés par des étudiants aux examens en ligne Outils numériques le plus utilisés à l’examen Fréquence Pourcentage Smartphone 69 71,9 Tablette 3 3,1 Ordinateur portable 24 25 Total 96 100 Agbo, J. K. & Kaiza, E. K./Legon Journal of the Humanities Vol. 34.1(2023) Legon Journal of the Humanities 34.1 (2023)
    keywords: agbo; cette; dans; des; est; examens; français; humanities; journal; kaiza; langue; legon; les; ligne; l’évaluation; page; par; pour; que; sakai; soit; sur; une; étudiants
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        item: #13 of 25
          id: ljh-250341
      author: Ussher , Yvette Akuorkor Afowa ; Ollennu, Yvonne A. A. 
       title: Promoting Ghanaian languages: The role of telenovela series
        date: 2023-06-29
       words: 7685
      flesch: 55
     summary: Telenovela and Ghanaian Local Language Promotion On the contribution of Telenovelas to the promotion of Ghanaian local languages, 75% of market women and 62.5% of residents in the selected communities, as well as 31.2% of students agreed to a large extent that Ghanaian language is being promoted. Published: June 29, 2023 Abstract Telenovelas have become an attractive form of entertainment for many Ghanaians largely because of the use of local Ghanaian languages as voice- overs during telecast.
    keywords: a. a.; humanities; journal; language; legon; market; participants; study; telenovelas; viewers; y. a.
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        item: #14 of 25
          id: ljh-250342
      author: Dzahene-Quarshie, Josephine ; Sosoo, Felix Kwame 
       title: Language Blending in Tanzanian Adverts: Codeswitching between Swahili, English, and Kiswahili cha Mtaani
        date: 2023-06-29
       words: 10620
      flesch: 70
     summary: In these sentences we can observe that English words like ‘My Airtel App’, ‘refer and earn’ and ‘link’ are codeswitched together with other Standard Swahili codes, the switching occurs within the sentences, so they constitute intra-sentential codeswitching. Legon Journal of the Humanities 34.1 (2023) Page 142 Dzahene-Quarshie, J. & Sosoo, F./Legon Journal of the Humanities Vol. 34.1(2023) Codeswitched Adverts with Standard Swahili, English and Kiswahili cha Mtaani The last type of codeswitching in the selected adverts is those that feature a blend of Standard Swahili, English, KcM. The fi rst example is another version of the Airtel Zone product that off ers subscribers up to 99% discounts, Airtel Zone (AT 5) Codeswitched Adverts with Standard Swahili, English and Kiswahili cha Mtaani Airtel Zone (AT 5) Duka limejaa, hapa nitapata kila kitu.
    keywords: advert; airtel; blending; cha; codeswitching; dzahene; english; humanities; journal; kcm; kiswahili; language; legon; money; mtaani; page; quarshie; sentential; sosoo; standard; swahili; tanzania; use
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        item: #15 of 25
          id: ljh-87348
      author: Adika, PK
       title: Marking Transgressive Spaces And Bodies: A Review Of Contemporary Ghanaian Poetry
        date: 2013-04-16
       words: 8779
      flesch: 51
     summary: In sum, the outlines of the transnation come into proper focus on the foundations of the old nation and its essential narratives, but the chief distinguishing mark of transnational spaces or bodies is that they transcend those essential narratives of national purity and instead thrive on the impurities that the nation has always sought to eliminate by championing essentialist discourses. It would seem on the evidence of much of the poems in Anyidoho’s recent works that he is a poet who is very much concerned with the exploration of transnational spaces.
    keywords: african; anyidoho; busia; contemporary; ghana; history; home; journeys; kofi; literature; nation; place; poetry; spaces; world
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        item: #16 of 25
          id: ljh-87349
      author: Dzahene-Quarshie, J
       title: Language Policy, Language Choice and Language Use in the Tanzanian Parliament
        date: 2013-04-16
       words: 9875
      flesch: 67
     summary: English nouns with Swahili possessives 19 v. English nouns with Swahili noun class marker 4 vi. television yao 'their televiion'<29thD05:23> v. English nouns with Swahili noun class marker 1.
    keywords: ama; bills; choice; code; conj; english; humanities; journal; language; legon; national; nouns; parliament; policy; quarshie; swahili; switching; tanzania; use; volume
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        item: #17 of 25
          id: ljh-87350
      author: Akande, AT; Okanlawon, OB; Akinwale, OT
       title: Attitudes of Educated Yoruba Bilinguals to Codeswitching
        date: 2013-04-16
       words: 5077
      flesch: 61
     summary: Language attitudes refer to the feelings and perceptions of people towards their own language or towards a language that does not belong to them (Crystal 1992). However, since human beings do change their views and perceptions, language attitudes are dynamic and subject to change based on several factors (Giles and Powesland 1975;
    keywords: attitudes; codeswitching; english; language; schools; students; table; yoruba
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        item: #18 of 25
          id: ljh-87352
      author: Issah, SA
       title: Reflexive Pronouns in Dagbani
        date: 2013-04-16
       words: 5586
      flesch: 57
     summary: 3: The morpho-syntax of Dagbani reflexive pronouns Once it is observed that Dagbani reflexive pronouns are a combination of pronouns and the –maŋa morpheme, there may be justification for one to assume that in the language, the pronoun prefixes of reflexives are lexically pre-specified as possessive. I also investigated the syntactic distribution of Dagbani reflexive pronouns.
    keywords: antecedent; clause; dagbani; maŋa; pronominal; pronouns; reflexive; sentence; subject; syntactic
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        item: #19 of 25
          id: ljh-87354
      author: Ahoua, F; Reid, D
       title: Towards an integrated formal model of fundamental frequency in overall downtrends
        date: 2013-04-16
       words: 9807
      flesch: 59
     summary: Such models make wrong predictions because they lack any counterpart in our reference level, which changes with overall pitch range while leaving the baseline (seen in the final L(ow) tones) invariant.” The resulting model, or modified Fujisaki’s model, as we shall for exposition purposes refer to it, exists for the sole purpose of adjusting possible consistent parts of models relative to one another.
    keywords: accent; example; function; interpretation; model; peak; pitch; reference; time; utterance
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        item: #20 of 25
          id: ljh-87355
      author: Adjei, M
       title: Back-to-Africa’, ‘Double Consciousness’ and the African Diaspora: Confronting the Myth and the Reality in Ghanaian Fiction
        date: 2013-04-16
       words: 8047
      flesch: 63
     summary: On a trip to the Ivory Coast in a bid to expand his business to Africa, his private jet crashes on a wooded mountain somewhere in the forest regions of West Africa. This article critically examines the issue of the eternal connections between the continent of Africa and people of African descent in three Ghanaian works of fiction—Kofi Awoonor’s Comes the Voyager at Last, David Oddoye’s The Return and Ayi Kwei Armah’s Osiris Rising—and comes to the conclusion that the (re)connection between continental Africa and the African Diaspora is beset and mediated by formidable geo-political, cultural and historical barriers and, therefore, still in a state of flux.
    keywords: african; america; asar; ast; azanta; comes; diaspora; history; jason; journal; lumumba; myth; new; novel; osiris; people; return; time; world
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        item: #21 of 25
          id: ljh-87359
      author: Olatunji, MO
       title: Yorùbá Proverbs and Musicality
        date: 2013-04-16
       words: 5053
      flesch: 62
     summary: The analyses revealed that, among other things, Yorùbá proverbs could be used to emphasise the importance of collaboration of music with other performing arts, express a relationship between the musical instrument combination and the concept of family co-existence, uphold the use of musical instruments as a communicative and panegyric tool, and emphasize the universality of Yorùbá aesthetic value on speech and music. Yorùbá proverbs are usually made of short sentences, loaded with deep words of wisdom, and borne out of the experiences of the elders in the society.
    keywords: bàtá; concept; drum; instrument; members; music; people; performance; person; proverbs; sound; yorùbá
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        item: #22 of 25
          id: ljh-87360
      author: Boamah, E
       title: The Concept of African Pianism
        date: 2013-04-16
       words: 4490
      flesch: 49
     summary: African musicians who are seeking to create a new idiom of African music which is designed primarily for aesthetic listening, and who see the means to this end in some kind of fusion of African and Western styles, have apparently decided that African traditional music is so limited in scope that it cannot furnish the elements necessary for the creation of the new idiom. The percussive and melodic capabilities of the piano make it an ideal medium for expressing the rhythmic and percussive features of African music.
    keywords: african; art; composers; elements; music; new; pianism; piano
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        item: #23 of 25
          id: ljh-87363
      author: Okolocha, HO
       title: War and Absurdity: Reading the Manifestations of Trauma in Uwem Akpan’s “Luxurious Hearses”
        date: 2013-04-16
       words: 5684
      flesch: 60
     summary: Akpan demonstrates that while the tangible physical costs of war are huge, the loss of humanity that occurs in war situations is worse. The purpose of this paper is to look at some of the ways in which war trauma manifests as absurd behaviour in the personalities of the characters we have selected for study and illustrate that the loss of personhood that occurs in war situations has terrible implications for society.
    keywords: absurdity; akpan; bus; hearses; jubril; life; literature; loss; self; trauma; war
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        item: #24 of 25
          id: ljh-90393
      author: Corum, M
       title: On the origins of locative for in West African Pidgin English: A componential approach
        date: 2013-07-08
       words: 9348
      flesch: 68
     summary: Those locative structures are used as general locative constructions and can be considered an areal feature of the languages of the Guinea Coast. The general locative construction as an areal feature of Guinea Coast component The languages of the Guinea Coast contain items that can be considered general locative constructions.
    keywords: african; century; coast; construction; corum; creole; edition; english; general; grammar; guinea; guinea coast; journal; languages; lexifier; locative; pidgin; portuguese; varieties; west
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        item: #25 of 25
          id: ljh-90397
      author: Finney, MA
       title: The Interaction of Declarative & Procedural Memory in the Process of Creolization: The Case of Sierra Leone Krio
        date: 2013-07-08
       words: 7890
      flesch: 57
     summary: The substrate account of creolization argues for significant influence of African substrate languages (particularly those belonging to the Kwa language subgroup from which a majority of enslaved West Africans were argued to have been obtained) in the shaping and reshaping of the grammar of Creole languages (particularly the Atlantic varieties). According to Myers-Scotton (2002: 272), substrate influence was necessitated by the following linguistic and social conditions under which Creole languages emerged: i) Speakers of different languages, mostly not mutually intelligible, were brought together in a plantation setting. ii) With an obvious need for some communication with each other, they need a lingua franca.
    keywords: 1980; acquisition; creole; creolization; declarative; english; krio; language; linguistic; memory; pidgin; properties; substrate
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