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Gladys Nyarko Ansah

ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR

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

CollegeCOLLEGE OF HUMANITIES
School / InstituteSCHOOL OF LANGUAGES
DepartmentDEPARTMENT OF ENGLISH
Cognitive/ Applied Linguistics
Publications

48

Citations

690

H-index

13

i10-index

16

Publication activity
Publication statistics
Average citations
14.4
Most cited paper
187
First publication year
1900
Latest publication year
2026
Last updated
14 Sep 2026, 10:31
Publications

48 matching publications

PublicationYearJournalThematic areaCitations
Re-examining the fluctuations in language in-education policies in post-independence Ghana
GN Ansah
2014 Multilingual education 4 (1), 12, 2014 Social Sciences 187
Culture in Embodied Cognition: Metaphorical/Metonymic Conceptualizations of FEAR in Akan and English
GN Ansah
2014 Metaphor and Symbol 29 (1), 44-58, 2014 Multidisciplinary / Unclassified 84
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
The cultural basis of conceptual metaphors: The case of emotions in Akan and English
GN Ansah
2010 Lancaster University Postgraduate Conference in Linguistics & Language …, 2010 Humanities 46
Cultural Conceptualisations of democracy and Political Discourse Practices in Ghana
GN Ansah
2017 Advances in cultural linguistics, 369-387, 2017 Social Sciences 39
Culture in embodiment: Evidence from conceptual metaphors/metonymies of anger in Akan and English
GN Ansah
2013 Compendium of cognitive linguistics research 2, 63-82, 2013 Humanities 32
Metaphor and bilingual cognition: The case of Akan and English in Ghana
GN Ansah
2011 PQDT-Global, 2011 Multidisciplinary / Unclassified 25
A sociolinguistic mosaic of West Africa
JA Anderson, GN Ansah
2015 Globalising sociolinguistics: Challenging and expanding theory, 54-65, 2015 Multidisciplinary / Unclassified 22
Emotion language in Akan: The case of anger
GN Ansah
2011 Encoding emotions in African languages, 119-157, 2011 Humanities 20
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
Linguistic diversity in the modern world: Practicalities and paradoxes
GN Ansah
2008 The international journal of language society and culture 26, 2008 Humanities 16
Multilingualism and language barriers in health delivery system in Ghana
GN Ansah, EK Orfson-Offei
2022 Ghana Journal of Linguistics 11 (2), 43-73, 2022 Humanities 14
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 language in ethnic identity: The case of Akwamu in Ghana
AE Ofosu-Mensah, GN Ansah
2012 African Journal of History and Culture 4 (5), 74, 2012 Humanities 12
‘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
Cognitive models of anger in Akan: A conceptual metaphor analysis
GN Ansah
2014 Cognitive Linguistic Studies 1 (1), 131-146, 2014 Multidisciplinary / Unclassified 10
Political nicknaming in Ghana: Social representations of democracy achieved through conceptual blending
GN Ansah
2011 Identity meets nationality: Voices from the Humanities 54, 73, 2011 Social Sciences 9
Language-in-education policies in Ghana: Identifying the gaps
NA Agyeman, GN Ansah
2025 Language Policy in Africa 1 (2), 2025 Humanities 6
Exploring ethos in contemporary Ghana
G Nyarko Ansah, AE Dzregah
2020 Humanities 9 (3), 62, 2020 Humanities 6
Lexical creativity and national development: The case of Akan talk radio in Ghana
GN Ansah
2012 Lancaster University, UK, http://www. nai. uu. se/ecas-4/panels/141-156 …, 2012 Multidisciplinary / Unclassified 6
Negotiating linguistic disruptions and connections in migratory contexts: language practices among child migrants in an urban market in ghana
GN Ansah
2022 Journal of Linguistic Anthropology 32 (1), 200-221, 2022 Social Sciences 5
Cognition and Language Learning. Newcastle-upon-Tyne
GN Ansah
2020 Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2020 Humanities 5
Dumsor and Dumsor-based Neologisms: A Constructionist Account of Their Structure and Formation
CKI Appah, GN Ansah
2020 Ghana Studies 23 (23), 28-55, 2020 Multidisciplinary / Unclassified 5
Re-examining the fluctuations in language in-education policies in post-independence Ghana. Multilingual Education 4 (1): 1-15
GN Ansah
2014 Humanities 5
Bilingual Conceptual Metaphors: A Fresh Window on Bilingual Cognition
GN Ansah
2008 Unpublished Dissertation, University of Brighton, Brighton, 2008 Multidisciplinary / Unclassified 5