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Dorothy Agyepong

SENIOR LECTURER

Verified email at ug.edu.gh University of Ghana, Legon Google Scholar

CollegeCOLLEGE OF HUMANITIES
School / InstituteSCHOOL OF LANGUAGES
DepartmentDEPARTMENT OF LINGUISTICS
Semantics and Syntax of African Languageslanguage use in specific contextsgesturemultilingualism
Publications

19

Citations

77

H-index

6

i10-index

3

Publication activity
Publication statistics
Average citations
4.1
Most cited paper
16
First publication year
1900
Latest publication year
2025
Last updated
6 Nov 2026, 11:13
Publications

19 matching publications

PublicationYearJournalThematic areaCitations
'Cutting'and'breaking'events in Akan
DP Agyepong
2017 — Humanities 16
‘Next time stay in your war room and pray for your boys’ or return to your kitchen: Sexist discourses in Ghana’s 2019 National Science and Math Quiz
DP Agyepong, G Diabah
2021 Discourse & Society 32 (3), 267-291, 2021 Humanities 14
Literal and metaphorical usages of ‘eat’and ‘drink’in Akan
DP Agyepong, NAA Amfo, EK Osam
2017 Nordic Journal of African Studies 26 (1), 17-17, 2017 Humanities 13
‘The mother of all nations’: Gendered discourses in Ghana’s 2020 elections
G Diabah, DP Agyepong
2022 Social Dynamics 48 (3), 509-532, 2022 Humanities 8
The semantics and argument realization potentials of Akan verbs of separation
DP Agyepong, EK Osam
2020 Journal of West African Languages 47 (1), 30-49, 2020 Humanities 8
The cultural adaptation of quantity judgment tasks in Ghanaian English and Akan
S Mohr, DP Agyepong
2022 Contemporary Journal of African Studies 9 (2), 120-146, 2022 Humanities 7
Aspects of Akan Verbal Semantics
EK Osam, OB Kambon, ES Afreh, DP Agyepong, RA Duah, ES Eshun
2023 Linguistics Association of Ghana, 2023 Humanities 3
Ghana: Ghanaian Student Pidgin English
DP Agyepong, NAA Amfo
2022 Urban Contact Dialects and Language Change, 86-104, 2022 Humanities 2
My heart tears’ and ‘my eyes open
DP Agyepong
2021 Sociolinguistic Studies 15 (1), 17-39, 2021 Humanities 2
The count-mass distinction in Ghanaian English and Akan: Exploring the validity of experiment designs
S Mohr, DP Agyepong
2018 49th Conference of the Association of Contemporary African Linguistics, East …, 2018 Humanities 2
“To Be ‘a Man’Is Not Easy!”: Masculinities and Discourses of Fear and Anxiety among Male COVID-19 Survivors in Ghana
G Diabah, DP Agyepong, AA Campbell
2023 Masculinities and Discourses of Men's Health, 369-393, 2023 Humanities 1
The combinatorial patterns of twá'to cut'in Asante-Twi (Akan):: Multiple senses or contextual modulations?
DP Agyepong
2022 Studies in African Linguistics 51 (2), 199-219, 2022 Humanities 1
L2 reading in healthcare contexts: Informed research methods with language diverse patients
C Brantmeier, DP Agyepong, A Dube, M Strube, J Van Rheenen, J Wills, ...
2025 University of Hawaii National Foreign Language Resource Center, 2025 Humanities 0
A comparative study of the basic locative construction in Gurenɛ, Asante-Twi, and Tongugbe
SA Atintono, D Agyepong, P Kpoglu
2024 Predication in African Languages, 74-98, 2024 Engineering 0
and Anxiety among Male COVID-19
G Diabah, DP Agyepong, AA Campbell
2023 Masculinities and Discourses of Men's Health, 369, 2023 Humanities 0
Expressing Peeling in Asante-Twi: A Lexico-Grammatical Analysis
DP Agyepong
2023 Aspects of Akan Verbal Semantics, 52, 2023 Humanities 0
The development of speech and gesture in Sesotho narratives
H Brookes, D Agyepong, M White, S Yalala
2023 Gesture 22 (3), 233-261, 2023 Humanities 0
The development of speech and gesture in Sesotho oral narratives
DP Agyepong
2019 — Humanities 0
977220 DAS0010. 1177/0957926520977220Discourse & SocietyAgyepong and Diabah research-article2020 Article Discourse & Society ‘Next time stay in your war 2021, Vol. 32 (3) 267 …
DP Agyepong
1900 Discourse & Society 32, 3, 0 Humanities 0