Courses

In year 1, each student in a Department or Programme is expected to attend all seminars
specified and make his/her own presentation on selected topics to an audience. Each student
will be expected to make at least one oral presentation to be assessed each...

All students in a Department or Programme at this level are expected to attend all seminars
specified and be made to give at least one seminar on a review article which, may or may not
be in their area of intended research. This should be in the first...

Dissertation (MA)

Students will be required to participate in departmental seminars, School of Languages Seminar series, as well as the conferences and workshops organised by credible national and regional associations such as the Linguistics Association of Ghana (LAG) and the...

The course deals with the theoretical issues involved in the concept of style. It will treat current advances in the theory of style. Topics to be dealt with include the definition and functions of stylistics and literature, foregrounding, euphony, imagery,...

The field of Contact Linguistics is replete with several sub-fields, each concerned almost exclusively with the study of one language contact phenomenon rather than another. In this course, a great deal of attention will be paid to appraising theories that...

This course examines issues concerning language use in society. It is designed to help students to gain insights into the social dynamics of language as well as the cultural underpinnings of language choice in various contexts. Topics to be covered include:...

This course is aimed at studying the current trends in ethnography of communication. It will critically examine current theories in ethnography as applied to specific sociolinguitic routines. The course will examine ethnography in social practice in different...

This course is designed to help the students to investigate and explore the theories of the interface between language and culture. Students will conduct in-depth research into the theoretical foundations of Ethnography of Communication. The course traces the...

This course exposes students to issues and the major principles guiding terminology development as part of language engineering. It aims at equipping students with the techniques for developing terms for linguistics, the media, health, science, economics,...