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Jemima Asabea Anderson

ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR

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

CollegeCOLLEGE OF HUMANITIES
School / InstituteSCHOOL OF LANGUAGES
DepartmentDEPARTMENT OF ENGLISH
PragmaticsSociolinguisticsVarieties of English
Publications

65

Citations

613

H-index

12

i10-index

17

Publication activity
Publication statistics
Average citations
9.4
Most cited paper
102
First publication year
1900
Latest publication year
2026
Last updated
14 Sep 2026, 09:44
Publications

65 matching publications

PublicationYearJournalThematic areaCitations
Powerful women in powerless language: Media misrepresentation of African women in politics (the case of Liberia)
JA Anderson, G Diabah, P Afrakoma hMensa
2011 Journal of Pragmatics 43 (10), 2509-2518, 2011 Humanities 102
A kente of many colours: Multilingualism as a complex ecology of language shift in Ghana
A Bodomo, JA Anderson, J Dzahene-Quarshie
2010 Sociolinguistic Studies 3 (3), 357-379, 2010 Humanities 94
The choice of English as a home language in urban Ghana
GA Afrifa, JA Anderson, GN Ansah
2019 Current Issues in Language Planning 20 (4), 418-434, 2019 Humanities 72
Multilingualism and language policies in the African context: Lessons from Ghana
NAA Amfo, J Anderson
2019 Current Issues in Language Planning 20 (4), 333-337, 2019 Humanities 33
Polite Requests in Non-native Varieties of English: The Case of Ghanian English
JA Anderson
2009 Linguistica Atlantica 30, 59-86, 2009 Multidisciplinary / Unclassified 30
Codifying Ghanaian English
JA Anderson
2009 Problems, Properties and Prospects, 2009 Multidisciplinary / Unclassified 26
Request forms in English in Ghana
JA Anderson
2006 Legon Journal of the Humanities 17, 75-103, 2006 Humanities 25
Perception of politeness: Some perspectives from Ghana
RA Thompson, JA Anderson
2019 Journal of Politeness Research 15 (1), 101-120, 2019 Multidisciplinary / Unclassified 24
A sociolinguistic mosaic of West Africa
JA Anderson, GN Ansah
2015 Globalising sociolinguistics: Challenging and expanding theory, 54-65, 2015 Multidisciplinary / Unclassified 22
A linguistic landscape of the central business district of Accra
JA Anderson, JF Wiredu, GN Ansah, G Frimpong-Kodie, E Orfson-Offei, ...
2020 Legon Journal of the Humanities 31 (1), 1-35, 2020 Social Sciences 19
Domains of English in Ghana and its use for specific purposes
JA Anderson, GN Ansah, PA Hmensa
2009 English for academic and specific purposes in developing, emerging and least …, 2009 Multidisciplinary / Unclassified 13
The role of English as medium of instruction in lower primary schools in a selected community in Ghana
C Djorbua, E Orfson-Offei, JA Anderson
2024 Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development 45 (5), 1552-1565, 2024 Multidisciplinary / Unclassified 12
“You are quite funny paa!”: A corpus-based study of borrowed discourse-pragmatic features in Ghanaian English
FO Unuabonah, JA Anderson
2023 Corpus Pragmatics 7 (3), 267-289, 2023 Multidisciplinary / Unclassified 12
Language shift and maintenance of Ga in Accra
EZ Bibiebome, J Anderson, I Jones-Mensah
2019 Journal of Education and Practice 10 (15), 87-94, 2019 Humanities 12
Exploring Ghanaians’ usage of ei, ehe, eh, and eish in Global Web-Based English Corpus
JA Anderson, E Agbaglo, RGA Thompson
2024 Corpus Pragmatics 8 (2), 131-148, 2024 Multidisciplinary / Unclassified 11
Interactive programmes on private radio stations in Ghana: an avenue for impoliteness
RA Thompson, JA Anderson
2018 Journal of African Media Studies 10 (1), 55-72, 2018 Social Sciences 10
‘Bra, sɛn, yɛnkↄ... that is all I know in Akan’: How female migrants from rural north survive with minimum bilingualism in urban markets in Ghana.
GN Ansah, JA Anderson, SA Anamzoya, F Ohemeng
2017 Ghana Journal of Linguistics 6 (1), 49-74, 2017 Social Sciences 10
The linguistic landscape of places of worship in Accra: Religion and multilingualism in Ghana
D Boamah-Boateng, JA Anderson
2024 Language Matters 55 (3), 96-125, 2024 Humanities 8
Communicative action and interaction in Africa: Towards a broader picture
S Mohr, KP Schneider, JA Anderson
2023 Journal of Pragmatics 215, 96-100, 2023 Multidisciplinary / Unclassified 8
Adjectives in football reporting
J Wiredu, J Anderson
2008 Lavric et al, 317-330, 2008 Multidisciplinary / Unclassified 7
11 Formative feedback in a writing programme at the University of Ghana
JA Anderson, AE Ayaawan
2023 African perspectives on the teaching and learning of English in higher …, 2023 Multidisciplinary / Unclassified 6
Language choice in churches in indigenous Gã towns: A multilingual balancing act
AA Campbell, JA Anderson
2023 Multilingua 42 (4), 445-471, 2023 Humanities 6
Moderation and the primary school context
P Adams, J Anderson
2019 Education 3-13 47 (1), 1-17, 2019 Social Sciences 6
Lexical inventiveness in Ghanaian socio-political discourse: The form, meaning and motivation for dumsor and dumsor-based neologisms
CKI Appah, JA Anderson
2019 Contemporary Journal of African Studies 6 (2), 23-53, 2019 Social Sciences 5
Linking Northern Ireland census of population data 1971–2001
I Shuttleworth, C Lloyd, J Anderson
2006 Unknown Publisher, 2006 Social Sciences 5