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Grace Diabah

ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR

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

CollegeCOLLEGE OF HUMANITIES
School / InstituteSCHOOL OF LANGUAGES
DepartmentDEPARTMENT OF LINGUISTICS
Language and GenderSociolinguisticsLanguage in Business
Publications

36

Citations

444

H-index

10

i10-index

11

Publication activity
Publication statistics
Average citations
12.3
Most cited paper
106
First publication year
2010
Latest publication year
2024
Last updated
16 Sep 2026, 04:02
Publications

36 matching publications

PublicationYearJournalThematic areaCitations
Caring supporters or daring usurpers? Representation of women in Akan proverbs
G Diabah, NA Appiah Amfo
2015 Discourse & Society 26 (1), 3-28, 2015 Humanities 106
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
To dance or not to dance masculinities in Akan proverbs and their implications for contemporary societies
G Diabah, NAA Amfo
2018 Ghana Journal of Linguistics 7 (2), 179-198, 2018 Humanities 39
The representation of women in Ghanaian radio commercials: Sustaining or challenging gender stereotypes?
G Diabah
2019 Language in Society 48 (2), 261-283, 2019 Social Sciences 25
Gendered discourses and pejorative language use: An analysis of YouTube comments on We should all be feminists
G Diabah
2023 Discourse, Context & Media 51, 100667, 2023 Humanities 24
Projecting masculinities or breaking sociolinguistic norms? The role of women’s representation in students’ profane language use
G Diabah
2020 Gender and Language 14 (1), 99-110, 2020 Humanities 16
FROM ‘RECHARGER’TO ‘GIDI-POWER’ The representation of male sexual power in Ghanaian radio commercials
G Diabah
2015 Critical Discourse Studies 12 (4), 377-397, 2015 Humanities 15
‘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
A Battle for supremacy? Masculinities in students’ profane language use
G Diabah
2020 The Journal of Men’s Studies 28 (3), 260-280, 2020 Humanities 12
Bloody widows? Discourses of tradition and gender in Ghanaian politics
G Diabah
2022 Discourse & Society 33 (2), 154-174, 2022 Social Sciences 11
Gendered discourse (s) Liberia’s ‘Iron Lady’vs. George Weah
G Diabah
2011 Living with Patriarchy: Discursive constructions of gendered subjects across …, 2011 Humanities 10
My lioness wife’: Construction of gender identities in the discourse (s) of Ghanaians in the UK diaspora
G Diabah
2011 Lancaster: Lancaster University PhD thesis, 2011 Social Sciences 9
‘The mother of all nations’: Gendered discourses in Ghana’s 2020 elections
G Diabah, DP Agyepong
2022 Social Dynamics 48 (3), 509-532, 2022 Social Sciences 8
Masculinity as a ‘hard small cage’? Reflections from Chimamanda Adichie’s We should all be feminists
G Diabah
2022 Legon Journal of the Humanities 33 (1), 39-62, 2022 Humanities 5
“Look me, hwε ha, ofainε kwεmɔ biε aha mi fioo!!”: Codeswitching at inter-ethnic traditional marriage ceremonies in southern Ghana
A Nuworsu, G Diabah, EK Amuzu
2019 Multilingua 38 (3), 283-311, 2019 Humanities 5
The Modern Man in Ghanaian Radio Adverts: A Reproduction of or a Challenge to Traditional Gender Practices?
G Diabah
2018 Feminist Perspectives on Advertising: What’s the Big Idea, 217-38, 2018 Social Sciences 5
An ethno-pragmatic analysis of humour in Akan draughts games
V Ofori, G Diabah, K Agyekum
2021 Ghana Journal of Linguistics 10 (1), 123-149, 2021 Humanities 4
Feminist Perspectives on Advertising: What's the Big Idea?
J Kilbourne, D Antunovic, L Chen, JM Collins, PG Davis, G Diabah, ...
2018 Bloomsbury Publishing USA, 2018 Humanities 4
Chapter 13.“I cannot be blamed for my own assault” Ghanaian media discourses on the context of blame in Mzbel’s sexual assaults
G Diabah
2013 Gender and Language in Sub-Saharan Africa: Tradition, Struggle and Change …, 2013 Humanities 4
Making light of the burden of economic hardship
G Diabah, V Ofori
2024 Legon Journal of the Humanities 35 (1), 1-36, 2024 Social Sciences 3
The gender enrolment gap in foreign language education revisited: Contemporary issues in a Ghanaian higher education institution
BA Lomotey, I Csajbok-Twerefou, AAR Husein, G Diabah
2023 System 117, 103110, 2023 Social Sciences 3
mi fioo!!”: Codeswitching at inter-ethnic traditional marriage ceremonies in southern Ghana
A Nuworsu, G Diabah, EK Amuzu
2019 Multilingua 38 (3), 283-311, 2019 Humanities 3
SEX-FOR-GENDER metonymy?
G Diabah
2016 Gender and Language 10 (2), 170-190, 2016 Social Sciences 3
" My lioness wife": the construction of gender identities in the discourse (s) of Ghanaian couples in the UK diaspora
G Diabah
2011 Lancaster University, 2011 Social Sciences 3
She is a female-rooster”: The conceptualisation of gender as sex in Ghanaian discourses
G Diabah
2010 Proceedings of the 6th Biennial International Gender and Language …, 2010 Social Sciences 3