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Address Forms among University Students in Ghana: A Case of Gendered Identities?
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Afful, Joseph Benjamin Archibald – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2010
In the last two decades, scholars in discourse studies and sociolinguistics have shown considerable interest in how identity is encoded in discourses across various facets of life such as academia, home, politics and workplace. By adopting an ethnographic-style approach, this study shows how students in a Ghanaian university construct their…
Descriptors: Intercultural Communication, Sociolinguistics, Foreign Countries, Sexual Identity
Languages and Education in Africa a Comparative and Transdisciplinary Analysis
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Brock-Utne, Birgit, Ed.; Skattum, Ingse, Ed. – Symposium Books, 2009
The theme of this book cuts across disciplines. Contributors to this volume are specialized in education and especially classroom research as well as in linguistics, most being transdisciplinary themselves. Around 65 sub-Saharan languages figure in this volume as research objects: as means of instruction, in connection with teacher training,…
Descriptors: African Languages, Language Planning, Multicultural Education, Beginning Reading
Address Terms among University Students in Ghana: A Case Study
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Afful, Joseph Benjamin Archibald – Language and Intercultural Communication, 2006
An important feature of the interface between language and society is the use of address terms. Following Brown and Gilman (1960), research studies of address terms have been extended to several cultural settings. This study contributes to this fertile area of sociolinguistic studies by describing the address terms used among undergraduates in an…
Descriptors: Intercultural Communication, Foreign Countries, Case Studies, Undergraduate Students