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    CONFERENCE DAY 1:

    MONDAY, JULY 28, 2014



    OPENING CEREMONY

    8:00a.m - Registration of Participants
    9:00a.m.
    Opening Prayer
    Welcome Address: Professor Joshua Alabi, Vice Chancellor, UPSA Opening Remarks &
    Introduction of Chair-person: Prof. Nana Aba A. Amfo, LAG President

    Chairmans Response: Mr. Godwin Adagawine, Dean, Faculty of Communication
    Poetry: Archiebold Acheampong
    -

    -

    Keynote Address: Professor Ozo-mekuri Ndimele, University of Port Harcourt, Nigeria

    Chairmans Closing Remarks


    10:30am-11.00: COCOA/COFFEE/TEA BREAK


    MORNING SESSION (11.00 am 1.00 pm)


    Time
    CONFERENCE ROOM 1

    Syntax and Semantics

    Chair: Prof. K. K. Saah
    CONFERENCE ROOM 2

    Language Teaching and Acquisition

    Chair: Prof. J. F. Wiredu
    11:00 Wh-Movement in Bassa: A Transformational Account

    Philip Manda Imoh
    Language Practice Strategies of Students Learning French at
    the University of Cape Coast

    Anthony Y.M. De-Souza and Safiatu Mohammed

    11:30 Focus Exhaustivity in Akan

    Reginald Akuoko Duah

    Negative Attitude Towards the Study of L1 in Ghanaian
    Senior High School

    Charles Owu-Ewie

    12:00 Anaphoric Expressions in Dagbani and Dangme

    Samuel Alhassan Issah and Regina Oforiwah Caesar

    Theorizing Terminology on Models of Child Language
    Acquisition and Scientific Knowledge Evolution

    Bem P. Ianna

    12:30 Syntax-Semantics Interface: The Issue of Co-referential in
    Di-argument Structure

    Kofi Busia Abrefa and Juliet Oppong-Asare

    Examining the Pedagogical Relevance of AL-TA
    C
    LL in the
    Teaching of Arabic Grammar

    Mohammed Mubarak Hidir



    1.00 2.15pm: LUNCH PERIOD


    AFTERNOON SESSION (2.30pm 5.00pm)


    Time
    CONFERENCE ROOM 1

    Language and Literature

    Chair: Prof. Kofi Agyekum
    CONFERENCE ROOM 2

    Evolution, Media and Language Change

    Chair: Dr. Josephine Dzahene-Quarshie
    2:30 When Politics Rhymes with Poly-tricks: A Critical Study of
    Amu Djoletos Money Galore

    Mawuloe Koffi Kodah

    A New Use for an Old Language: Nigerian Pidgin in Urban
    Humor and Comedy

    Patrick Oloko

    3:00
    Chanting YorubAkan: A Stylistic Analysis of Jimi Solanke s
    O

    na La in The Path

    Obadele Kambon
    Temporal Relations and Outcomes of Language Contact in
    West Africa, Suriname and the Netherlands: Implications for
    Creole Formation

    Margot van den Berg, Evershed Amuzu, Komlan Essizewa, Elvis Yevudey

    3:30 The Rhetoric of Genocide: Language, Memory and Trauma
    in Three Selected Novels

    Moussa Traore
    The Effect of Globalization on Yoruba Proverbs

    Esther Titilayo Ojo

    4:00 Rendering the Intangible Tangible: An Analysis of Language
    in Akan-content Advertisements

    Philomena Abakah Yeboah, Charles Marfo and Lucy Bonku

    Rank Shifting at the Level of the Clause in Editorials from
    Ghanaian and British Newspapers

    George Kodie Frimpong


    4:30 6.00pm: BUSINESS/GENERAL MEETING

    6:30pm: COCKTAIL???


    CONFERENCE DAY 2:

    TUESDAY, JULY 29, 2014

    MORNING SESSION (8.30 11.00)


    Time
    CONFERENCE ROOM 1

    Morphophonology and Morphosyntax

    Chair: Dr. Clement Appah
    CONFERENCE ROOM 2

    Phonetics/Phonology and Morphology

    Chair: Dr. Hudu Fusheini
    08:30 Relative Clause Construction in Akan

    Isaac Oduro

    Nasalisation Practices in Ghanaian English

    Kingsley Cyril Mintah

    09:00 To Be and to Have: Multi-functionality of the Leteh
    Morpheme b

    Mercy Akrofi Ansah

    Nativisation of Akan Loan Words: A Study of Diphthongs
    and Consonants

    Monica Amoah Apenteng

    09:30 Nominalization in Tafi in an Areal Typological Perspective

    Mercy Bobuafor

    Personal Pronominalisation in Akan

    Clarice Sheila Turpin


    10:00

    Verb Complement in Akan

    Bright Amoah


    Tone Bearing Unit in Akan: Syllable or Mora?

    Lawrence Bosiwah

    10:30 A Morphosyntactic Analysis of Some Fante Personal Names
    Charles Owu-Ewie and Patience Obeng
    Some Grammatical Functions of Tone on Gua (Gwa) Verbs

    Michael Obiri-Yeboah


    11.00-11.30: COCOA/TEA/COFFEE BREAK




    Time
    CONFERENCE ROOM 1

    Language Acquisition and Sociolinguistics

    Chair: Dr. Evershed Amuzu
    CONFERENCE ROOM 2

    Language Use

    Chair: Dr. Charles Owu-Ewie
    11:30 A Study of Linguistic Interference in the Language of Level
    100 and 200 Students of Spanish at the University of Ghana

    Setor Donn Novieto
    From Gidi Power to Gentleman Power: A Linguistic
    Representation of Male Sexual Power in Ghanaian Radio
    Commercials
    Grace Diabah

    12:00 Translanguaging: Exploring a Case of Monolingual and
    Bilingual Curriculum Classrooms in Ghana

    Elvis Yevudey

    Religion, Language and Food: A Sociolinguistic Analysis of
    Traditional Meal Prayers among the Larteh of Ghana

    Alexander Hackman-Aidoo and Mercy Adzo Klugah

    12:30 Discursive Constructions of Bicultural Identity: A Cross-
    generational Cognitive Sociolinguistic Study on Oromo
    Americans in Minnesota

    Oromiya Deffa

    Semantically Ambiguous: An Overview of some Akan and
    Krobo Riddles

    George Appiah and Melvin Nartey

    1.15pm: EXCURSION TO THE PLANETARIUM/ KN MAUSOLEUM/CRAFTS VILLAGE

    CONFERENCE DAY 3:

    WEDNESDAY, JULY 30, 2014

    MORNING SESSION (8.30am 10.30 am)


    Time
    CONFERENCE ROOM 1

    Language Use and Discourse

    Chair: Dr. Samuel Atintono
    CONFERENCE ROOM 2

    Mixed Grill

    Chair: Prof. Nana Aba A. Amfo
    08:30 Labeling in Media Discourse: An Analysis of Television
    News Presentation of Internal Crises and Peace
    Management in Nigeria

    Augustine Uzoma Nwagbara

    A Comparative Analysis of Meta-Discourse Uses in the
    Literature Review Section of MPhil Theses of Biology and
    English Students of UEW

    Harriet Okoh

    09:00 The Efficacy of Words in Ghanaian Indigenous Healing:
    Some Ethnographic Observations

    Samuel Adu-Gyamfi and Charles Marfo

    A Pragmatic Act Analysis of HIV/AIDS Literacy Classrooms
    in South-Western Nigeria
    Foluke Olayinka Unuabonah

    09:30 Language Identity: The Gradual Transformation of the Akan
    of Ghana to the Proverbial Bat (Apan)

    Emmanuel Asubonteng

    Kiliji, an Unrecorded Cult Language of Eastern Ghana

    Jonathan Brindle, Mary Esther Kropp Dakubu and Obadele Kambon
    10:00 I have a Running Stomach: Understanding the Ghanaian
    in Intercultural Communication

    Abigail Ayiglo Kuwornu

    African Indigenous Languages and National Development:
    The Role of Radio

    Kofi Agyekum


    10:30am-11.00: COCOA/COFFEE/TEA BREAK





    Time
    CONFERENCE ROOM 1

    Phonetics, Phonology and Language Change

    Chair: Dr. Mercy Akrofi Ansah
    CONFERENCE ROOM 2

    Language Use

    Chair: Dr. Augustine Uzoma Nwagbara
    11:00 Tone choice and information status in Ghanaian English
    discourse: Implications for communicating in English as a
    Lingua Franca
    Charlotte Fofo Lomotey

    Makoma mu Toffee: The Metonymic and Metaphoric
    Conceptualisations of the Heart in Akan

    Esther Serwaah Afreh

    11:30 Voicing in Ghanaian English: A Preliminary Study

    Moses Kwadwo Kambou

    A Sociolinguistic Survey of Likpakpaln Praise Names

    Abraham Kwesi Bisilki and Samuel Issah Alhassan

    12:00 The Perception of Akan Migrants in Accra on the Akan
    Variety They Speak

    Solace A. Yankson

    Toponymy as a Source of Knowledge: The Importance of
    Place Names in South-West Nigeria

    Ayo Yusuff

    12:30 Underapplication in an Akan Linguistic Game

    Kwasi Adomako

    Bagyimiber: The Paradox of Contemporary Akan Perception
    of Modernity

    Isaac Adjei Forson and Emmanuel Antwi Fordjour


    1.00 2.15pm: LUNCH PERIOD/ACLS AHP Application Workshop

    AFTERNOON SESSION (2.30pm 4.30pm)


    Time
    CONFERENCE ROOM 1

    Language Use

    Chair: Dr. Jemima Anderson
    CONFERENCE ROOM 2

    Mixed Grill

    Chair: Mr. Esther Afreh
    2:30 Age, Gender, Status, Power or Face-saving? The Choice of
    Address Forms as Element of Language Etiquette

    Ildiko Csajbok-Twerefou
    New Paradigm in Linguistic Field Methods: The Use of
    Stimuli-based Techniques in Semantic Fieldwork

    Samuel Awinkene Atintono
    3:00 Between Rhetoric and Political Reality: A Pragmatic Study
    of the Keynote Address at the Presentation of All
    Progressive Congress (APC) Manifesto

    Matthew Abua Ebim

    Information, Communication and Technology (ICT) Resources
    for Teaching and Learning Igbo Language

    Eugene U. Ibli and Amechi Boniface Oha

    3:30 The National Language Question in Ghana: Insights from
    the East

    Josephine Dzahene-Quarshie and Robert Wilton Oduori

    The Effect of Language Barrier on French Lesson Notes
    Supervision: A Case Study

    Bernard Ampong and Stella Afi Makafui Yegblemenawo
    4:00

    Digitizing Language Reading Materials in Ghana: Moving
    Towards Affordable Learning Solutions

    Murtada Mahmoud Muaz



    CLOSING AND FAREWELL

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