All Stories

  1. Akan water metaphors, idioms, and proverbs

    Article • Cognitive Linguistic Studies, November 2025, John Benjamins

    Professor Kofi Agyekum

  2. The ethnopragmatics of Akan leave-takings and farewells

    Article • Language and Dialogue, August 2024, John Benjamins

    Professor Kofi Agyekum

  3. Idioms, proverbs and body part expressions onYiedie“wellbeing” in Akan

    Article • Pragmatics and Society, March 2023, John Benjamins

    Professor Kofi Agyekum

  4. The pragmatics of duabↄ ‘grievance imprecation’ taboo among the Akan

    Article • Pragmatics Quarterly Publication of the International Pragmatics Association (IPrA), July 2022, John Benjamins

    Professor Kofi Agyekum

  5. The communicative role of silence in Akan

    Article • Pragmatics Quarterly Publication of the International Pragmatics Association (IPrA), July 2022, John Benjamins

    Professor Kofi Agyekum

  6. The ethnopragmatics of Akan advice

    Article • Pragmatics Quarterly Publication of the International Pragmatics Association (IPrA), June 2019, John Benjamins

    Professor Kofi Agyekum

  7. The language of Akan herbal drug sellers and advertisers

    Article • Language and Dialogue, November 2017, John Benjamins

    Professor Kofi Agyekum

  8. Metaphors and Metonyms ofNsa, ‘the Hand’ in Akan

    Article • Pragmatics & Cognition, December 2016, John Benjamins

    Professor Kofi Agyekum

  9. Bodily state and metaphors relating toho, ‘body’, in Akan

    Article • Metaphor and the Social World, October 2016, John Benjamins

    Professor Kofi Agyekum

  10. Metaphors of Anger in Akan

    Article • International Journal of Language and Culture, November 2015, John Benjamins

    Professor Kofi Agyekum

  11. Akan metaphoric expressions based onyam‘stomach’

    Article • Cognitive Linguistic Studies, September 2015, John Benjamins

    Professor Kofi Agyekum

  12. The ethno-pragmatics of “amannebɔ” in Akan

    Article • Language and Dialogue, December 2011, John Benjamins

    Professor Kofi Agyekum

  13. Invective language in contemporary Ghanaian politics

    Article • Journal of Language and Politics, August 2004, John Benjamins

    Professor Kofi Agyekum

  14. The socio-cultural concept of face in Akan communication

    Article • Pragmatics & Cognition, June 2004, John Benjamins

    Professor Kofi Agyekum