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

    Article • Pragmatics and Society, March 2023, John Benjamins

    Professor Kofi Agyekum

  2. 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

  3. The communicative role of silence in Akan

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

    Professor Kofi Agyekum

  4. The ethnopragmatics of Akan advice

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

    Professor Kofi Agyekum

  5. The language of Akan herbal drug sellers and advertisers

    Article • Language and Dialogue, November 2017, John Benjamins

    Professor Kofi Agyekum

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

    Article • Pragmatics & Cognition, December 2016, John Benjamins

    Professor Kofi Agyekum

  7. Bodily state and metaphors relating to ho, ‘body’, in Akan

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

    Professor Kofi Agyekum

  8. Metaphors of Anger in Akan

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

    Professor Kofi Agyekum

  9. Akan metaphoric expressions based on yam ‘stomach’

    Article • Cognitive Linguistic Studies, September 2015, John Benjamins

    Professor Kofi Agyekum

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

    Article • Language and Dialogue, December 2011, John Benjamins

    Professor Kofi Agyekum

  11. Invective language in contemporary Ghanaian politics

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

    Professor Kofi Agyekum

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

    Article • Pragmatics & Cognition, June 2004, John Benjamins

    Professor Kofi Agyekum