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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

76

H-index

6

i10-index

3

Publication activity
Publication statistics
Average citations
4.0
Most cited paper
16
First publication year
1900
Latest publication year
2025
Last updated
16 Sep 2026, 01:30
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 2
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