Prof. Jemima A. Anderson
Associate Professor
About
Dr. Anderson is a Senior Lecturer at the Department of English, University of Ghana, Legon. She was appointed a Lecturer in March 1999. She teaches foundation courses in English, Phonetics and Phonology of English, Varieties and Functions of English, Discourse Analysis, Pragmatics and Sociolinguistics.
Education
University of Ghana, Legon English Ph. D. (English) 2005
Indiana University, USA General Linguistics M.A. (Linguistics) 2001
University of Ghana, Legon English M. Phil (English) 1996
University of Ibadan, Nigeria English and Education B.Ed. (English) 1991
Research Interest
Her areas of research interest are cross-cultural pragmatics, speech acts, Pragmatics (Speech Acts in Non-Native Varieties of English) , Politeness in English in Ghana , Phonology of English in Ghana , Ghanaian Pidgin English , Varieties of English in Ghana , Sociolinguistics , Language Choice and Language Use in Ghana and the codification of English in Ghana. Some of her research articles have appeared in local and international peer-reviewed journals.