scholarly journals Creating Institutional Solidarity: A Transitivity Analysis of Anthems of Selected Ghanaian Universities

2020 ◽  
Vol 11 (2) ◽  
pp. 74
Author(s):  
Mwinwelle Peter ◽  
Amoakohene Benjamin ◽  
Agyekum Obeng Nicholas
Keyword(s):  
Cape Coast ◽  
Tertiary Institutions ◽  
Figures Of Speech ◽  
Linguistic Research ◽  
Cohesive Devices ◽  
Coding Strategy ◽  
Verbal Processes ◽  
University Of Ghana ◽  
Exploratory Procedure ◽  
Speech Content

Previous works on the analysis of anthems have focused on unearthing encoded latent meanings through the analysis of linguistic devices such as cohesive devices, deictic expressions, figures  of speech, content words and clauses. However, the analysis of institutional anthems as a sub-genre  of anthems has received minimal attention in linguistic research. The current study therefore  adopts a qualitative exploratory procedure to conduct a transitivity analysis of process types and  their encoded implications in selected Ghanaian university anthems underpinned by the transitivity  framework by Halliday and Matthiessen (2014). The sample for the study is composed of anthems of  four main or traditional universities in Ghana. The four anthems that serve as data for the study  are anthems of University for Development Studies (UDS), University of Cape Coast (UCC), University  of Ghana (UG) and University of Education, Winneba (UEW). The consensual coding strategy is used to  check the validity of the coding process. The results indicate a preponderant use of material  processes to spell out the expected actions to be taken by members of the universities to inure to  the holistic progress of their institutions. Other process types such as relational, mental and  verbal processes are minimally used to establish relationships, eulogize and personify the  universities as important institutions worthy of praise. The study concludes that the creation of  institutional solidarity was better represented through the analysis of process types in the  selected Ghanaian university anthems. The implications of this study unveil the importance of  university anthems in the representation of the goals, visions and missions of universities and  recommend that tertiary institutions who use adopted anthems could relook at that by getting to  compose their own anthems in alignment with the goals, vision and mission underpinning their establishment.

scholarly journals Public relations specialist, any role(s) in university style administration?

1999 ◽  
Vol 2 ◽  
pp. 155-157
Author(s):  
Christie Okae-Anti
Keyword(s):  
Public Relations ◽  
University Education ◽  
Cape Coast ◽  
Tertiary Institutions ◽  
Essential Component ◽  
Education In Ghana ◽  
Management Functions ◽  
The University

Administration is a human process and a means by which the aim or purpose of an organisation is effected. Public relations is an essential component in the administration of tertiary institutions. A survey was designed to identify ways in which public relations contribute to the management of university education in Ghana, using the University of Cape Coast as a case study. The study revealed that public relations management functions were varied ranging from the. handling of complaints to assisting in conducting elections in the University of Cape Coast and that all these management functions were necessary for effective public relations.

scholarly journals Gender Differences in Stressors and Coping Strategies Among Teacher Education Students at University of Ghana

2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
pp. 123
Author(s):  
Grace S. Adasi ◽  
Kwaku D. Amponsah ◽  
Salifu M. Mohammed ◽  
Rita Yeboah ◽  
Priscilla C. Mintah
Keyword(s):  
Gender Differences ◽  
Teacher Education ◽  
Education Students ◽  
Cape Coast ◽  
Brief Cope ◽  
Stress Levels ◽  
The Difference ◽  
The University ◽  
University Of Ghana ◽  
Teacher Education Students

This study explored gender differences in stressors experienced by teacher education students at the University of Ghana, and adaptation stratagems they might utilise to manage stress. In 2018–2019 academic year, a total of two hundred and seventy (270) second- and third-year students were selected using random sampling procedure to respond to closed-ended and open-ended questions in a survey questionnaire. The questionnaire was adapted from Dental Environmental Stress (DES) to measure stressors students encounter and the Brief Coping Orientation to Problems Experienced (Brief COPE) to measure students’ coping stratagems they might use to minimise their stress levels (Folkman & Lazarus, 1984). It was pre-tested to learners of the faculty of education at the University of Cape Coast, Ghana, to ensure the reliability and validity of the statements. The findings show that the students use multiple strategies, such as praying/meditating and self-distracting activities to cope with stress. Although, females had higher overall perceived stress levels regarding encountered academic stressors and health stressors, the difference between genders was insignificant. Similarly, females had a higher perception of stress from psychosocial stressors when likened to males, however, the difference between genders was also insignificant. Regarding perceived coping stratagems, females utilised adaptive coping stratagems whilst males utilised maladaptive and avoidance coping stratagems although the difference between genders was also not significant. The study recommended among others that males be urged to likewise utilise increasingly adaptive strategies to control strain.

scholarly journals The Union Trade Company and Its Recordings: An Unintentional Documentation of West African Popular Music, 1931–1957

2004 ◽  
Vol 31 ◽  
pp. 393-405
Author(s):  
Veit Arlt
Keyword(s):  
Popular Music ◽  
Leisure Activities ◽  
West African ◽  
Cape Coast ◽  
Trading Company ◽  
Field Recordings ◽  
Musical Cultures ◽  
Postcolonial Africa ◽  
The University ◽  
University Of Ghana

This paper introduces a unique collection of roughly 700 historical recordings of African popular music generated by a Swiss trading company, which today is located at the archives of mission 21 (formerly Basel Missioin) in Basel. The music was recorded and distributed by the Union Trade Company of Basel (UTC) during the 1930s and 1950s in the Gold Coast and Nigeria. The collection represents a rich resource for the study of African history and cultures and caters for the growing interest shown by social historians of Africa in everyday life and accordingly in leisure activities and consumption.As music and dance undoubtedly play an important role in African social and religious life, they have received much attention and there is a longstanding tradition of ethnomusicological research that has led to a great number of sound collections. The historian interested in the “modern” and “postmodern” or in popular culture, however, tends in many cases to be frustrated by the material contained in these archives. The ethnographic collectors often showed a blind eye to the modernizing forces within the African musical cultures they researched and concentrated on documenting what they perceived as the “original” or “traditional.” Furthermore the collection and documentation of the popular music of the day was rarely on the agenda of national research institutions and archives in postcolonial Africa. In the case of Ghana at least three initiatives have resulted in important collections of music that go beyond a narrow ethnographic documentation. The first, by Prof. Kwabena Nketia at the Centre of African Studies at the University of Ghana, features a mixture of field recordings and a few commercial records. The others focus specifically on the commercial and popular. These are the Gramophone Records Museum in Cape Coast, discussed below by its founder Kwame Sarpong and the Bokoor African Popular Music Archives Foundation (BAPMAF) of John Collins in Accra.

Text cohesion: An exploratory study with beginning writers

1985 ◽  
Vol 6 (4) ◽  
pp. 407-415 ◽  
Author(s):  
Philip Yde ◽  
Marc Spoelders
Keyword(s):  
Exploratory Study ◽  
Written Language ◽  
Developmental Trend ◽  
Narrative Texts ◽  
Unit Of Analysis ◽  
Linguistic Research ◽  
Cohesive Devices ◽  
Text Cohesion ◽  
Beginning Writers ◽  
Written Language Acquisition

ABSTRACTLinguistic research on children's acquisition of writing concerns itself largely with the sentence as the highest unit of analysis. However, an adequate account of written language acquisition must deal with the text-productive ability, including devices for cohesion and compactness. The intersentential cohesive devices used by Dutch-speaking children aged 8–9 (N=14) and 10–11 (N=14) in narrative texts are analysed and compared in this report. The coding of the cohesive devices followed Halliday and Hasan (1976). The writing samples were also analysed for degrees of cohesiveness and compactness, using the formulae suggested by Scinto (1983). Our findings indicate a developmental trend in the construction of more cohesive and compact narrative texts.

African Perspectives on Programs for North American Students in Africa: The Experience of the University of Ghana–Legon

2000 ◽  
Vol 28 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 28-33
Author(s):  
Florence Abena Dolphyne
Keyword(s):  
North American ◽  
Cape Coast ◽  
American Universities ◽  
Exchange Programs ◽  
Kwame Nkrumah ◽  
American Students ◽  
Student Exchange ◽  
Student Exchange Programs ◽  
The University ◽  
University Of Ghana

The University of Ghana is the oldest of the five universities in Ghana. The others are Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, the University of Cape Coast, the University College of Education in Winneba, and the University of Development Studies in Tamale. The last two are only three years old and do not as yet have student exchange programs with North American universities. Kwame Nkrumah University and the University of Cape Coast do have student exchange programs with a few North American universities.

scholarly journals Anaphore Nominale Dans Des Récits Écrits Par Des Étudiants Ghanéens : Les Effets D’une Séquence Didactique

2018 ◽  
Vol 14 (14) ◽  
pp. 175
Author(s):  
Alexander Kwawu
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Language ◽  
Teaching Sequence ◽  
Cape Coast ◽  
Lexical Resources ◽  
Pedagogical Intervention ◽  
Cohesive Devices ◽  
Post Test ◽  
Second Year ◽  
The University ◽  
The Impact

This paper assesses the impact of a sequence of didactic interventions on the use of nominal anaphors in a narrative text produced by Ghanaian university students of French as a foreign language. This study is necessitated by the lack of research investigating the effects of instruction on the use of cohesive devices in learner writing. 25 second-year students of the University of Cape Coast participated in a didactic sequence based on the types of nominal anaphors used in folktales. The impact of the teaching sequence was assessed by comparing the results obtained during the pretest with those of the post-test. The results showed improvements in students’use of nominal anaphoric resources. This was manifested in the increased diversification of lexical resources and the increased use of marked anaphoric expressions. These improvements show that the skilful usage of nominal anaphoric resources can be quickly developed in the frame of an adequate pedagogical intervention.

scholarly journals Challenges and Coping Strategies of Adult Learners in Tertiary Institutions: A Case Study of University of Cape Coast in Ghana

2015 ◽  
Vol 5 (4) ◽  
pp. 131
Author(s):  
Racheal Ofori ◽  
Enoch Danso Okyere ◽  
Gifty Seiwaa Nyarko
Keyword(s):  
Adult Learners ◽  
Case Study Research ◽  
Sampling Technique ◽  
Wireless Internet ◽  
Cape Coast ◽  
Internet Service ◽  
Tertiary Institutions ◽  
And Coping ◽  
The University

<p>The study examined challenges adult learners in the University of Cape Coast face and the strategies they adopt in coping with these challenges. The case study research design was used and involved 18 respondents who were selected through purposive sampling technique. The hermeneutic method was used to analyze the data. The findings show that ICT and library are indispensable learning resources but adult learners have difficulty with their usage. Adult learners fail to avail themselves of counseling services on campus. It is recommended that ICT education should be intensified for these learners. Adult learners should be separated from the younger ones during ICT lessons in order to serve their special needs in the use of this resource. The wireless internet service should be active all the time and should be expanded to serve all halls and nearby hostels of the university.</p>

scholarly journals Utilization of computer technology in public universities in Ghana: Implications for management

2008 ◽  
Vol 5 ◽  
pp. 1-13
Author(s):  
Rosemary S. Bosu
Keyword(s):  
Staff Development ◽  
Computer Technology ◽  
Public Universities ◽  
Academic Staff ◽  
Cape Coast ◽  
Kwame Nkrumah ◽  
Lecture Notes ◽  
Access To Technology ◽  
The University ◽  
University Of Ghana

This study investigated computer technology for instructional and administrative use in public universities in Ghana. Self-administered questionnaires were distributed to 450 academic staff and 98 administrators in three Ghanaian public universities: the University of Cape Coast (UCC), the University of Ghana (UG), and Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technologv (KNUST).Computers were generally available for both lecturers and administrators 10 use. Availability' and access to technology did not differ significantly between universities. Academic staff used computers mainly for preparing lecture notes or reports while administrators used them mainly for preparing memos and reports. Forty-five percent of lecturers and 58% of administrators reported low or moderate skills in the use of computers. A majority of the respondents obtained their skills through self intuition rather than formal tuition. The findings suggest that universities could improve the availability; access and skills in the use of relevant technologies as part of their staff development programmes. Progress could be monitored by current accreditation programmes.

scholarly journals Means of Verbal Manipulation in Advertising Discourse of Financial Companies

2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (6) ◽  
pp. 111-115
Author(s):  
M. V. Melnichuk ◽  
I. I. Klimova
Keyword(s):  
Speech Acts ◽  
Language Resources ◽  
Verbal Expression ◽  
Figures Of Speech ◽  
Linguistic Research ◽  
Verbal Component ◽  
Advertising Discourse ◽  
Financial Company ◽  
A Company ◽  
Imperative Mood

The article analyses the verbal component of the advertising discourse of financial companies. The overview of existing linguistic research in the field of advertising discourse allows the authors to conclude that typologies of verbal means are based on postulates of cognitive linguistic (modelling semantic domains), stylistics (rhetoric devices and figures of speech), pragmatics (the theory of speech acts). However, the verbal component of advertising discourse is not well researched yet. We undertake an attempt to systemize verbal means of manipulation in advertising discourse based on the dichotomy “speech strategy/tactics” and corresponding language resources. Therefore, singled out a corpus of texts from financial companies’ sites and analysed how proposition in an utterance correlates with the verbal means. Further, we formulated statistical conclusions about the percentage of different manipulative tactics used on the site of a financial company. Finally, the authors concluded that despite the development of verbal expression in advertising, imperative mood, citation and ‘bombastic lexis’ for positioning a company as a leader on the market are still more frequent than other more linguistically creative verbal means.

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