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Turn taking in Ghanaian judicial discourse 加纳司法话语中的转向

Legon Journal of the Humanities Pub Date : 2023-12-11 DOI: 10.4314/ljh.v34i2.4

S. Obeng, Akua Campbell

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Online foreign language learning at the tertiary level: Lessons from the COVID-19 pandemic 高等教育中的在线外语学习：COVID-19 大流行的经验教训

Legon Journal of the Humanities Pub Date : 2023-12-11 DOI: 10.4314/ljh.v34i2.6

B. A. Lomotey, Ildiko Csajbok-Twerefou

{"title":"Online foreign language learning at the tertiary level: Lessons from the COVID-19 pandemic","authors":"B. A. Lomotey, Ildiko Csajbok-Twerefou","doi":"10.4314/ljh.v34i2.6","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4314/ljh.v34i2.6","url":null,"abstract":"The onset of the COVID-19 pandemic caused a recourse to online teaching in many parts of the world, and for several disciplines, including foreign language learning. Although quite an amount of research has been conducted on Online Foreign Language Learning (OFLL), issues relating to OFLL in philology programs have received relatively little attention. Furthermore, differences in students’ experiences according to the foreign language of study remain under-researched. The current paper addresses this gap using both quantitative and qualitative methods. A survey was conducted among one thousand, one hundred and five [1,105] (former) students of an African university. The researchers examined the new methods applied in the teaching of Arabic, Chinese, French, Kiswahili, Russian, and Spanish as foreign languages at the research setting during the COVID-19 pandemic. The study investigated the challenges encountered by participants, participants’ perceptions of OFLL, and its impact on their performance. The findings showed that challenges encountered by participants included issues such as inadequate physical interaction in the foreign language and problems with internet connectivity. However, the findings also suggest that OFLL has certain advantages such as the reduction of anxiety and the increase of foreign language enjoyment among learners. These findings suggest that OFLL has some benefits which foreign language institutions should make good use of even beyond times of crisis. Measures to achieve this include the usage of efficient online learning management software and the provision of digital training programs for students and teachers.","PeriodicalId":377973,"journal":{"name":"Legon Journal of the Humanities","volume":"218 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-12-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139010072","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Authorship, place and voice in research: A transitivity analysis of selected African and Western journals 研究中的作者、地点和声音：对选定的非洲和西方期刊的转换分析

Legon Journal of the Humanities Pub Date : 2023-12-11 DOI: 10.4314/ljh.v34i2.2

A. E. Ayaawan, B. Antia

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‘Righting’ the wrong: Text revision in ESL students’ composing processes in senior high schools in Greater Accra, Ghana 纠正 "错误：加纳大阿克拉地区高中 ESL 学生作文过程中的文本修改

Legon Journal of the Humanities Pub Date : 2023-12-11 DOI: 10.4314/ljh.v34i2.5

Emmanuel Lauren Oblie

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“Coat and Uncoat!”: Satire and socio-political commentary in My Book of #GHCoats "有衣穿，无衣穿！"：我的 #GHC 大衣之书# 中的讽刺和社会政治评论

Legon Journal of the Humanities Pub Date : 2023-12-11 DOI: 10.4314/ljh.v34i2.1

Kwabena Opoku-Agyemang

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The narrative discourse of a bilingual talking drum: The case of the Dagomba timpani 会说话的双语鼓的叙事话语：达贡巴定音鼓的案例

Legon Journal of the Humanities Pub Date : 2023-12-11 DOI: 10.4314/ljh.v34i2.3

Fusheini Hudu

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Crisis communications at the start of the Covid-19 pandemic: A case study of the Ghanaian president’s fourth update on coronavirus Covid-19大流行开始时的危机沟通:以加纳总统关于冠状病毒的第四次最新情况为例

Legon Journal of the Humanities Pub Date : 2023-06-29 DOI: 10.4314/ljh.v34i1.1s

Veronika Koller

{"title":"Crisis communications at the start of the Covid-19 pandemic: A case study of the Ghanaian president’s fourth update on coronavirus","authors":"Veronika Koller","doi":"10.4314/ljh.v34i1.1s","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4314/ljh.v34i1.1s","url":null,"abstract":"The Covid-19 pandemic was a testbed for crisis communication, leading to recommendations on how to meet communicative goals and several individual case studies. This paper contributes to the latter by engaging in a detailed three-level analysis of an early, pivotal address to the nation by Ghana’s president Nana Akufo-Addo. In terms of infection rates and deaths, Ghana has been much less severely impacted by the pandemic than other countries, making it worthwhile to look at the role of official communications. This study investigates how the president addressed the public at the beginning of the Covid-19 pandemic, in what ways the linguistic features of his address reflected the specific political context, and what potential impact his language use had on the behaviour of the public. Findings show that linguistic and, to a lesser extent, visual elements represent the president as powerful, authoritative, but somewhat detached from the audience. However, this is balanced by direct appeals to the same audience, whose cooperation he seeks to win rather than enforce. This balance reflects the political and socio-cultural context of the text, as further evidenced by comments on the address on Akufo-Addo’s Facebook page.","PeriodicalId":377973,"journal":{"name":"Legon Journal of the Humanities","volume":"20 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-06-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130420627","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Fighting a global pandemic and local stigmatisation: War metaphors in presidential update speeches and their effect on attitudes to COVID -19 (Patients) in Ghana 抗击全球流行病和地方污名化:总统更新演讲中的战争隐喻及其对加纳对COVID -19(患者)态度的影响

Legon Journal of the Humanities Pub Date : 2023-06-29 DOI: 10.4314/ljh.v34i1.2s

E. K. Pedavoah, G. Ansah

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Promoting Ghanaian languages: The role of telenovela series 推广加纳语:电视连续剧的角色

Legon Journal of the Humanities Pub Date : 2023-06-29 DOI: 10.4314/ljh.v34i1.4s

Y. Ussher, Y. A. Ollennu

{"title":"Promoting Ghanaian languages: The role of telenovela series","authors":"Y. Ussher, Y. A. Ollennu","doi":"10.4314/ljh.v34i1.4s","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4314/ljh.v34i1.4s","url":null,"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. The question that arises is – Does the telecast of telenovelas in a local language play any role in the promotion of Ghanaian languages? Using focus group discussions and in-depth interviews, we explored the role of Telenovelas with voice-overs in the promotion of Ghanaian languages among residents of some communities in Accra, Ghana; specifically, Lapaz, Osu and Gbawe Mallam communities, University students and market women. Findings show that due to low English literacy levels, voice-over telenovelas were preferred among residents in Lapaz community and the market women. A privately-owned television station, Max TV, emerged as the station with a wider audience due to its innovative broadcasting strategy of voice-over Telenovelas using the Ghanaian (Akan) language. Overall, the telenovelas appear to be promoting the Akan language by exposing viewers to lexical knowledge, facilitating the acquisition of new vocabulary items, and shaping children’s learning of Akan. This paper, therefore, unearths the significance of glocalization of telenovelas in the promotion of local languages in Ghana.","PeriodicalId":377973,"journal":{"name":"Legon Journal of the Humanities","volume":"2 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-06-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125439149","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Language Blending in Tanzanian Adverts: Codeswitching between Swahili, English, and Kiswahili cha Mtaani 坦桑尼亚广告中的语言融合:斯瓦希里语、英语和斯瓦希里语之间的代码转换

Legon Journal of the Humanities Pub Date : 2023-06-29 DOI: 10.4314/ljh.v34i1.5s

J. Dzahene-Quarshie, Felix Kwame Sosoo

{"title":"Language Blending in Tanzanian Adverts: Codeswitching between Swahili, English, and Kiswahili cha Mtaani","authors":"J. Dzahene-Quarshie, Felix Kwame Sosoo","doi":"10.4314/ljh.v34i1.5s","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4314/ljh.v34i1.5s","url":null,"abstract":"This study interrogates the strategic use of code-switching involving Standard Swahili, English, and Kiswahili cha Mtaani in audio-visual advertisements by telecommunication companies (Telecos) in Tanzania. A purposive sampling method was used to gather the data: codeswitched advertisements for the purpose of demonstrating the blending of codes. The data on advertisement was gathered from audio-visual advertisements by selected Telecos in Tanzania on social media platforms. Underpinned by theories of codeswitching, this study establishes that beyond codeswitching between Kiswahili and English as a language choice for advertising by Telecos in Tanzania, an emerging trend is the use of codeswitching between Standard Kiswahili and Kiswahili cha mtaani (an urban youth variety of Kiswahili); also, some adverts feature three-way codeswitching involving Standard Kiswahili, English and Kiswahili cha mtaani. The study further argues that codeswitching in the advertisements is carefully thought of, intentionally blending the languages in a strategic way to attract customers from different linguistic, economic, and sociological backgrounds as well as different age groups, making this kind of codeswitching distinct from codeswitching which occurs in natural conversation.","PeriodicalId":377973,"journal":{"name":"Legon Journal of the Humanities","volume":"330 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-06-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122474496","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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