Dr. Novieto Setor Donne - Spanish Section

Lecturer

Contact info snovieto@ug.edu.gh

About

Dr. Novieto is a Lecturer at the University of Ghana (Department of European Languages). 

Education

He completed his Masters of Philosophy in Spanish in 2008 and earned a Bachelor of Arts in French and Spanish in 2004 (both at the University of Ghana). He had his Secondary School Education at Sogakofe Secondary School and Abor Secondary School in 1992, Mount Mary College in 1993 and Private Advanced Level Education in 1999. In his Master’s Dissertation he looked at the dynamic relationship between style and the meaning that a literary text seeks to convey.

Research Interest

  • Socio-linguistics and Pragmatics
  • Semantics and Stylistics of Hispanic texts
  • Pedagogy of Spanish as a foreign language
  • Social interaction between languages

Publications

  1. "Literary Expression, Vehicle for Transferring National Feelings, Retracting Personal and National Myths" In and Out of Africa: Exploring Afro-Hispanic, Luso-Brazilian, and Latin-American Connections. Cambridge Scholars Publishing; 2012.
  2. “Ayi Kwei Armah’s Fragments and the Anonymous writers’ Lazarillo de Tormes: different shades of society but communicating the same ‘pains’ in the 21st Century”:2013 Actualizaciones en Comunicación Social Centro de Lingüística Aplicada, Santiago de Cuba.