About

Dorothy Pokua Agyepong is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Linguistics, and the Academic Advisor for the International Programs Office-University of Ghana. She holds a PhD from the University of Cape Town, South Africa. She teaches at both the graduate and undergraduate level.
Dorothy is passionate about mentoring the next generation of academics.

Education

PhD, Linguistics, University of Cape Town, South Africa (2017)
MPhil, Linguistics, University of Ghana, Legon (2012)
Bachelor of Arts (Linguistics and French), University of Ghana, Legon (2008)

Research Interest

• Semantics and Pragmatics of African languages
• Sociolinguistics of urban youth (contact) languages
• Language use in specific contexts (gender, politics, education)
• Gestures and Speech Development

Publications

Journal Articles
1. Brookes, Heather, Dorothy Agyepong, Michelle White and Sefela Yelala (2024). The Development of Speech and Gesture in Sesotho Narratives. Gesture, 1-29. https://doi.org/10.1075/gest.21006.bro
2. Mohr Susanne and Agyepong, Dorothy P. (2022). The cultural adaptation of quantity judgment tasks in Ghanaian English and Akan. Contemporary Journal of African Studies. Vol. 9 (No. 2), pp. 1-27. https://journals.ug.edu.gh/index.php/cjas/article/view/153/1182
3. Agyepong, Dorothy P. (2022). The combinatorial patterning of twá 'to cut' in Asante-Twi (Akan): Multiple senses or contextual modulations? Studies in African Linguistics 51: Volume 2. https://doi.org/10.32473/sal.51.2.127839
4. Diabah, Grace and Dorothy P. Agyepong (2022). ‘The mother of all nations’: Gendered discourses in Ghana’s 2020 elections. Social Dynamics, 1-24 https://doi.org/10.1080/02533952.2022.2105568
5. Agyepong, Dorothy P. (2021). “My heart tears” and “my eyes open”: exploring the verb te ‘to tear’ and its range of interpretations in Asante-Twi. Special Issue Sociolinguistic Studies. (15.1), 17-39. https://doi.org/10.1558/sols.42328
6. Agyepong, Dorothy P. and Diabah, Grace (2021). ‘Next time stay in your war room and pray for your boys’ or return to your kitchen: Sexist discourses in the 2019 National Science and Math quiz. Discourse & Society, 32 (3), 267-291.
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/0957926520977220
7. Agyepong, Dorothy P. and E. Kweku Osam (2020). The semantics and argument realization potentials of Akan verbs of separation. Journal of West African Languages. (JWAL). Volume (47.1), 30-49.
https://main.journalofwestafricanlanguages.org/index.php/downloads/send/137-volume-47-number-1/728-the-semantics-and-argument-realization-potentials-of-akan-verbs-of-separation
8. Agyepong, Dorothy P., Nana Aba Appiah Amfo and E. Kweku Osam (2017). Literal and metaphorical usages of ‘eat’ and ‘drink’ in Akan. Nordic Journal of African Studies (NJAS) 26 (1). 62-78. http://www.njas.helsinki.fi/

Book Chapters
9. Atintono Samuel, Dorothy P. Agyepong and Promise Dodzi Kpoglu (2024). A Comparative Study of the Basic Locative Construction in Gurenɛ, Asante-Twi, and Ewe. In Essegbey James and Enoch Aboh (eds.) Predication in African Languages. Amsterdam: John Benjamins Publishing Company https://doi.org/10.1075/slcs.235.03ati
10. Agyepong, Dorothy P. (2023). Expressing PEELING in Asante-Twi: a lexico-grammatical analysis. In E. Kweku Osam and Obadele Bakari Kambon (eds.), Aspects of Akan Verb Semantics, pp. 52-93. Accra: Linguistics Association of Ghana.
11. Grace Diabah, Dorothy P. Agyepong and Akua Campbell (2023). To be ‘a man’ is not easy! Masculinities and discourses of fear and anxiety among male COVID-19 survivors in Ghana. In Brookes, Gavin and Chalupnik, M. (eds), Masculinities and Discourses of Men's Health (pp. 369-393). Cham: Springer International Publishing.
12. Amfo, Nana Aba Appiah and Dorothy P. Agyepong (2023). Making the secular sacred: Sociolinguistic domains and performance in Christian worship. In Sinfree Makoni and Ana Deumert (eds.) Sociolinguistics and Southern Theory: Voices, Questions and Alternatives, pp 90-108, Durham: Duke University Press.
13. Agyepong, Dorothy P. and Nana Aba Appiah Amfo. (2022). Ghana: Ghanaian Student Pidgin English. In Paul Kerswill and Heike Wiese (eds.) Urban Contact Dialect and Language Change: Insights from the Global North and South. pp 86-104, Oxford: Routledge (Taylor & Francis). DOI: 10.4324/9780429487958-1
14. Deumert, Ana, Panović, Ivan, Agyepong, Dorothy, and Barasa, David (2019). African Languages and Mobile Communication – Between Constraint and Creativity. In H. Ekkehard Wolf (ed.), Cambridge Handbook of African Linguistics. (pp 555-574). Cambridge University Press.
https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108283991.019