Dr. Dorothy Pokua Agyepong

Dr. Dorothy Pokua Agyepong
Lecturer, Department of Linguistics, University of Ghana
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Education
PhD (Linguistics), University of Cape Town (South Africa)
M.Phil (Linguistics), University of Ghana
BA. (Linguistics and French), University of Ghana
Brief Profile

Dorothy P. Agyepong is a lecturer in the Department of Linguistics, University of Ghana. She has a PhD in Linguistics from the University of Cape Town. Her research focuses on the Semantics of African languages, gesture, language use in specific domains (gender, education, politics) and sociolinguistics of urban youth languages. Some of her works have appeared in reputable journals such as the Nordic Journal of African Studies, Discourse & Society, Sociolinguistic Studies, Contemporary Journal of African Studies, Studies in African Linguistics and the Journal of West African Language. 

Dorothy Agyepong is a recipient of the American Council of Learned Society-African Humanities Program (ACLS-AHP 2020/21 cohort) postdoctoral award.

Research Interest: 

Semantics and Pragmatics of Lexical items, Language use in specific domains (gender, politics, education), Gesture studies, Urban (youth) languages, Multilingualism.

Selected Publications:
  1. Agyepong, Dorothy P. (2022). The combinatorial patterning of twá 'to cut' in Asante-Twi (Akan): Multiple senses or contextual modulations? Studies in African Linguistics 51: Volume 2. https://doi.org/10.32473/sal.51.2.127839
  2. Agyepong, Dorothy P. & Nana Aba Appiah Amfo. (2022). Ghana: Ghanaian Student Pidgin English. In Paul Kerswill and Heike Wiese (eds.) Urban Contact Dialect and Language Change: Insights from the Global North and South. pp 86-104, Oxford: Routledge (Taylor & Francis).  DOI: 10.4324/9780429487958-1
  3. Diabah, Grace and Dorothy P. Agyepong (2022). ‘The mother of all nations’: Gendered discourses in Ghana’s 2020 elections. Social Dynamics, 1-24 https://doi.org/10.1080/02533952.2022.2105568
  4. Agyepong, Dorothy P. and Diabah, Grace (2021). ‘Next time stay in your war room and pray for your boys’ or return to your kitchen: Sexist discourses in the 2019 National Science and Math quiz. Discourse & Society, 32 (3), 267-291. 
    https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/0957926520977220
  5. Agyepong, Dorothy P. (2021). “My heart tears” and “my eyes open”: exploring the verb te ‘to tear’ and its range of interpretations in Asante-Twi. Special Issue Sociolinguistic Studies. (15.1), 17-39. https://doi.org/10.1558/sols.42328