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Professor Nana Aba Appiah Amfo
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Prof Appiah Amfo at University of Ghana, Legon.
Born (1971-09-30) 30 September 1971 (age 52)
Kumasi, Ghana
💼 Occupation
Scholar and linguist
TitlePro-Vice-Chancellor of the
University of Ghana
🌐 Websitewww.ug.edu.gh
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Professor Nana Aba Appiah Amfo (born 30th September 1971) is a Ghanaian linguist and scholar, known for her studies on Pragmatism (language use in context) and the Pro Vice-Chancellor in charge of Academics and Students Affairs at the University of Ghana[1] in West Africa.

Biography[edit]

Nana Aba Appiah Amfo was born on 30th September,1971 in Kumasi Ghana in the land of the Ashanti Kingdom, in family that had produced a number of Ghanaian academicians. After schooling at Holy Child School in Cape Coast from 1985-1988, Nana Aba graduated with a Bachelor’s degree (French and Linguistics) from the University of Ghana. Both her MPhil (2001) and PhD (2007) degrees in Linguistics are from the Norwegian University of Science and Technology in Trondheim, Norway.[2] Professor Amfo has received additional training in higher education management and leadership from Harvard Business School, University of Applied Sciences, Germany, and INSEAD, France.

Professor Amfo’s career in academia started in 2001 as a Lecturer in the Department of Linguistics after her Master’s degree. In 2007, the same year she obtained her PhD degree, she was promoted Senior Lecturer. She became Associate Professor in 2011, and Professor in 2017.[3]

Professor Amfo’s research interests are in the linguistic sub-discipline of Pragmatics, which allows her to explore the role that context plays in conversational interactions and how that influences communication in different domains.[4] Her research resulting in several publications in nationally and internationally reputable journals such as Acta Linguistica Hafnensia, Current Issues in Language Planning, Discourse and Society, Ghana Journal of Linguistics, Journal of Pragmatics, Journal of West African Languages, Legon Journal of the Humanities, Lingua, Linguistics, Nordic Journal of African Studies, Nordic Journal of Linguistics, Pragmatics, and Studies in African Linguistics,[5] have covered the role of function words in communication, information structure, grammaticalisation, language use in specific domains such as health, gender, politics, religion and migration. Her (edited) books and book chapters have been published by Ayebia Clarke Publishing Company, John Benjamins Publishing Company, Novus Press, Routledge (Taylor & Francis Group) and Sub-Saharan Publishers. Her recently (2018) co-authored textbook on Therapeutic Communication Competencies for Nurses and Midwives, commissioned by the Nursing and Midwifery Council, is published by DigiBooks.

Professor Amfo has acquired extensive multi-cultural experience through various professional engagements in twenty countries in Africa, Europe, Asia, North America and Australia.[6] These engagements include giving competitive and invited talks, serving as external assessor and engaging with research and professional collaborators. She has been an external examiner for a number of Universities including University of Nairobi,[7] Kenya; University of the Western Cape, South Africa; Norwegian University of Science and Technology,[8] Norway; Stockholm University,Sweden and University of Education, Winneba.

Education[edit]

Professor Nana Aba Appiah Amfo holds a Bachelor’s degree (French and Linguistics) from the University of Ghana. Both her MPhil (2001) and PhD (2007) degrees in Linguistics are from the Norwegian University of Science and Technology in Trondheim, Norway. Professor Amfo has received additional training in higher education management and leadership from Harvard Business School,[9] University of Applied Sciences, Germany, and INSEAD, France.[10] Professor Amfo’s career in academia started in 2001 as a Lecturer in the Department of Linguistics after her Master’s degree. In 2007, the same year she obtained her PhD degree, she was promoted Senior Lecturer. She became Associate Professor in 2011, and Professor in 2017.

Work[edit]

Prior to her becoming Pro Vice-Chancellor (ASA) in November 2019, Professor Amfo was founding Dean of the School of Languages (2014 – 2019). She previously served as the Head of the Department of Linguistics (2013 – 2014). She has participated in the governance of the University of Ghana through her service on several statutory and adhoc boards and committees. She previously served as the Chair of the Management Board of the University Basic School (2011 – 2016),[11] the College of Humanities Senior and Junior Staff Appointments and Promotions Committee (2014 – 2018) and the Mentoring and Professional Development Sub-committee of the Centre for Gender Studies and Advocacy (CEGENSA) (2010 – 2013).[12] She was the University of Ghana’s representative on the Catholic University College Appointments and Promotions Committee (2011 – 2016).[13] She was a member of the College of HumanitiesAdvisory Board, and served as a Tutor of Sarbah Hall.

Research[edit]

Professor Amfo’s research interests are in the linguistic sub-discipline of Pragmatics, which allows her to explore the role that context plays in conversational interactions and how that influences communication in different domains. Her research resulting in several publications in nationally and internationally reputable journals such as Acta Linguistica Hafnensia, Current Issues in Language Planning, Discourse and Society, Ghana Journal of Linguistics, Journal of Pragmatics, Journal of West African Languages, Legon Journal of the Humanities, Lingua, Linguistics, Nordic Journal of African Studies, Nordic Journal of Linguistics, Pragmatics, and Studies in African Linguistics, have covered the role of function words in communication, information structure, grammaticalisation, language use in specific domains such as health, gender, politics, religion and migration. Her (edited) books and book chapters have been published by Ayebia Clarke Publishing Company, John Benjamins Publishing Company, Novus Press, Routledge (Taylor & Francis Group) and Sub-Saharan Publishers. She recently (2018) co-authored textbook on Therapeutic Communication Competencies for Nurses and Midwives, commissioned by the Nursing and Midwifery Council, is published by DigiBooks.[14]

Publications[edit]

Journal articles

1. Amfo, Nana Aba A. & Jemima A. Anderson. 2019. Multilingualism and language policies in the African context: Lessons from Ghana.[15] Current Issues in Language Planning 20 (4): 333-337. Introduction to a Special Issue in honour and to the memory of [[Professor Tope Omoniyi]][16]

2. Amuzu, Evershed K,, Nutakor, Yvonne & Nana Aba Appiah Amfo. 2019. Multilingualism and language practices of Nigerien migrants in Ghana.[17] Current Issues in Language Planning 20 (4): 389-402. DOI: 10.1080/14664208.2019.1582944

3. Amfo, Nana Aba A. & Clement K. I. Appah. 2019. Lexicalization of Akan diminutive forms: Form, meaning and motivation. Linguistik Online 94. 3-18.[18]

4. Houphouet, Ekua E., Amfo, Nana Aba A., Dordoye, Eugene & Rachel Thompson 2018. Interactions in psychiatric care consultation in Akan speaking communities. Communication & Medicine 15 (1). 40-52.

5. Amfo, Nana Aba A. 2018. Commentary on “Omphile and his soccer ball: colonialism, methodology, translanguaging research”. Multilingual Margins 5 (2). 20-23.

6. Diabah, Grace & Nana Aba Appiah Amfo. 2018. To dance or not to dance: Masculinities in Akan proverbs: Traditional values versus contemporary realities, Ghana Journal of Linguistics 7 (2). 179-198.

7. Nutakor, Yvonne E. & Nana Aba Appiah Amfo. 2018. Language socialization practices of children in multilingual Accra, Ghana Legon Journal of Humanities 29 (1). 166-198.

8. Amfo, Nana Aba A., Houphouet, Ekua E., Dordoye, Eugene & Rachel Thompson. 2018. “Insanity is from home”: The expression of mental health challenges in Akan. International Journal of Language and Culture 5 (1). 1-28. NAAAmfo/UG/SOL Page 8 of 27

9. Agyepong, Dorothy P., Amfo, Nana Aba A. & E. Kweku Osam. 2017. Literal and metaphorical usages of ‘eat’ and ‘drink’ in Akan. Nordic Journal of African Studies 26 (1). 62-78.

10. Amfo, Nana Aba A. 2016. “I am a pastor...not a politician”: Language, politics and religion in Ghana’s 2012 elections campaign. Issues in Political Discourse Analysis 4 (2). 135-153.

11. Kambon, Obadele, Osam, Kweku & Nana Aba Appiah Amfo. 2015. A case for re-visiting definitions of serial verb constructions: Evidence from Akan serial verb nominalization. Studies in African Linguistics 44 (2). 75-99.

12. Diabah, Grace & Nana Aba Appiah Amfo. 2015. Caring supporters or daring usurpers?: Representation of women in Akan proverbs. Discourse and Society 26. 3-28.

13. Apenteng, Monica Amoah & Nana Aba Appiah Amfo 2014. The form and function of loanwords in Akan. Nordic Journal of African Studies 23 (4). 221-242.

14. Abunya, Levina & Nana Aba Appiah Amfo 2013. Grammaticalization in Kaakyi: From a temporal adverb to a future marker. Acta Linguistica Hafnensia 45(1). 126-139.

15. Amfo, Nana Aba A. 2011. The Dangme clausal connective nɛ. Journal of West African languages XXXVIII (1). 53-68.

16. Fretheim, Thorstein, Nana Aba Appiah Amfo & Ildikó Vaskó. 2011. Token reflexive, anaphoric and deictic uses of ‘here’. Nordic Journal of Linguistics 34 (3). 239-294.

17. Appah, Clement K. I. & Nana Aba Appiah Amfo. 2011. The morphopragmatics of the diminutive morpheme (-ba/-wa) in Akan. Lexis “Diminutives and Augmentatives in the Languages of the World” 6. 85-103.

18. Amfo, Nana Aba A. 2010. Indefiniteness marking and Akan bi. Journal of Pragmatics 42 (7). 1786-1798.

19. Amfo, Nana Aba A. 2010. Lexical signaling of information structure in Akan. Linguistics 48 (1), 195-225.

20. Amfo, Nana Aba A. 2010. Negation in Akan: Linguistic convention versus pragmatic Inference. Journal of Asian and African studies 80. 97-112.

21. Amfo, Nana Aba Appiah 2010. Noun phrase conjunction in Akan: The grammaticalization path. Pragmatics 20 (1). 27-41.

22. Amfo, Nana Aba Appiah & Stella B. Norgbe 2009. Comparing demonstratives in Kwa. Legon Journal of the Humanities 20, 181-211.

23. Amfo, Nana Aba A. 2007. Clausal conjunction in Akan. Lingua 117 (4). 666-684.

24. Amfo, Nana Aba A. 2007. Explaining connections in Akan discourse: the role of discourse markers. Languages in Contrast 7 (2). 185-202.

25. Amfo, Nana Aba A. 2007. Noun phrase and clausal connectives in Akan. Studies in African Linguistics 36 (1). 1-27.

26. Amfo, Nana Aba A. 2005. Modal marking in Akan: The case of anka. Journal of Pragmatics 37 (7). 997-1013.

27. Amfo, Nana Aba A. 2005. Recurrence marking in Akan. Pragmatics 15 (2/3). 151-168.

Books 28. Aziato, Lydia, Boampong, Cyrelene Amoah, Sapong, Nana Yaw B., & Nana Aba Appiah Amfo. In press. Chronological Genesis of Nursing & Midwifery in Ghana. Accra: Sub- Saharan Publishers. NAAAmfo/UG/SOL Page 9 of 27

29. Amfo, Nana Aba Appiah, Omoniyi, Tope, Tagoe, Nii Teiko, Kambon, Obadele & Kofi Korankye Saah. 2018. Therapeutic Communication Competencies for Nurses and Midwives. Accra: Digibooks

30. Yankah, Kwesi, Saah, Kofi K. & Nana Aba Appiah Amfo (eds.). 2014. A Legon Reader in Ghanaian Linguistics. Oxfordshire: Ayebia Clarke Publishing Company.

31. Lauer, Helen, Amfo, Nana Aba A. & Joanna Boampong (eds.). 2013. The One in the Many: Nation Building through Cultural Diversity. Accra: Sub-Saharan Publishers.[19]

32. Lauer, Helen, Amfo, Nana Aba A. & Jemima A. Anderson (eds.). 2011. Identity Meets Nationality: Voices from the Humanities. Accra: Sub-Saharan Publishers.

33. Nilsen, Randi A., Amfo, Nana Aba A. & Kaja Borthen (eds.) 2007. Interpreting Utterances: Pragmatics and its Interfaces, Essays in Honour of Thorstein Fretheim. Oslo: Novus.[20]

Edited Special Issues (Journals)[edit]

34. Amfo, Nana Aba A. & Jemima A. Anderson. 2019. Multilingualism and language policies in the African context: lessons from Ghana. Current Issues in Language Planning.[21]

35. Amfo, Nana Aba A., Anderson, Jemima A. & Paul Kerswill. 2017. Ghana Journal of Linguistics 6 (2).[22]

Book Chapters[edit]

36. Agyepong, Dorothy P. & Nana Aba Appiah Amfo. Forthcoming. 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. Oxford: Routledge (Taylor & Francis).

37. Amfo, Nana Aba A. & Tope Omoniyi. 2019. Sociolinguistic domain analysis, linguistic practices and performance in religious worship. In Andrey Rosowsky (ed.). Aspects of Performance in Faith Settings: Heavenly Acts, 76-89. New Castle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing.

38. Amfo, Nana Aba A. 2018. The encoding of information structure in African languages, in Augustine Agwuele & Adams Bodomo (eds.). The Handbook of African Linguistics, 243- 261. Oxford: Routledge (Taylor & Francis).

39. Amfo, Nana Aba A. 2014. The semantics and pragmatics of sentential coordination in Ga and Ewe, in Kwesi Yankah, Kofi K. Saah, & Nana Aba Appiah Amfo (eds.). A Legon Reader in Ghanaian Linguistics, 68-86. Oxfordshire: Ayebia Clarke Publishing

40. Amfo, Nana Aba A. 2013. The triumph and prosperity of education in Ghana, in Tuntufye Mwamwenda & Phindile Lukhele-Olurunju (eds.). The Triumph and Prosperity of Education in Africa, 249-274. Pretoria: Africa Institute of South Africa.

41. Fretheim, Thorstein & Nana Aba Appiah Amfo. 2008. ‘Abroad’ and semantically related terms in some European languages and Akan. In María de los Ángeles Gómez González, J. Lachlan Mackenzie & Elsa M. González Álvarez (eds.). Languages and cultures in contrast and comparison, 173-191. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.

42. Fretheim, Thorstein & Nana Aba Appiah Amfo 2008. Reference, determiners and descriptive content. In Alex Klinge & Henrik Høeg Müller (ed.). Essays on nominal determination: from morphology to discourse management, 339-366. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.

43. Amfo, Nana Aba A. 2007. Interpretive use marking in Akan. In Randi. A. Nilsen, Nana Aba A. Amfo & Kaja Borthen (eds.). Interpreting Utterances: Pragmatics and its Interfaces, Essays in Honour of Thorstein Fretheim, 108-126. Oslo: Novus.

44. Amfo, Nana Aba A. 2006. Syntactic variation versus semantic uniqueness: A study of the multifunctional marker no in Akan. In Eva Thue Vold, Gunn Inger Lyse & Anje Muller Gjesdal (eds.). New Voices in Linguistics, 211-224. New Castle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing.

45. Amfo, Nana Aba A. & Thorstein Fretheim 2005. A relevance-theoretic approach to linguistic signaling of the cognitive status of discourse referents. In Mila Vulchanova & Tor Anders Åfarli (eds.). Grammar and Beyond: Essays in Honour of Lars Hellan, 43-68. Oslo: Novus.

Conference Proceedings[edit]

46. Amfo, Nana Aba A., Boateng, Stella A. & Yvonne A. Otoo. 2007. A comparative study of the morphosyntactic properties of adjectives in three Kwa languages. In Mary Esther Kropp Dakubu & E. Kweku Osam (eds.), Studies in the Languages of the Volta Basin 4, Proceedings of the Annual Colloquium of the Legon-Trondheim Linguistics Project, 61-73. Accra: Linguistics Department, University of Ghana.

Conference Proceedings (peer reviewed)[edit]

47. Amfo, Nana Aba A. 2007. Akan Demonstratives. In Doris L. Payne & Jamie Peña (eds.). Selected Proceedings of the 37th Annual Conference on African Linguistics, 134-148. Sommerville: Cascadilla Press.

Edited Conference Proceedings[edit]

48. Kropp Dakubu, Mary Esther, Amfo, Nana Aba A., Osam, E. Kweku, Saah, Kofi K. & George Akanlig-Pare. (eds.). 2010. Studies in the Languages of the Volta Basin 6, Proceedings of the Annual Colloquium of the Legon-Trondheim Linguistics Project Part 1 Verbs and Adjectives. Accra: Linguistics Department, University of Ghana[23]

49. Kropp Dakubu, Mary Esther, Amfo, Nana Aba A., Osam, E. Kweku, Saah, Kofi K. & George Akanlig-Pare. (eds.). 2010. Studies in the Languages of the Volta Basin 6, Proceedings of the Annual Colloquium of the Legon-Trondheim Linguistics Project Part 2 Nominals, the Lexicon and Phonology. Accra: Linguistics Department, University of Ghana Working Papers

50. Amfo, Nana Aba Appiah & Thorstein Fretheim. 2005. On the non-existent role of implicatures in signalling the cognitive status of discourse referents. Working Papers ISK, 2, 61-74. NTNU.

51. Amfo, Nana Aba Appiah, Boateng, Stella A. & Thorstein Fretheim. 2004. Markers of recurrence in two European and two African languages. Working Papers ISK, 1: Special Issue on Contrastive Lexical Pragmatics, 1-24. NTNU.

52. Amfo, Nana Aba Appiah. A relevance-theoretic study of some pragmatic markers in Akan, Working Papers in Linguistics, 36. NTNU[24]

Professional Memberships & Affiliations[edit]

• Member, COMET (Communication, Medicine and Ethics) Society, 2016 - Date[25] • Member, African Studies Association of Africa, 2015 - 2016

• President, Linguistics Association of Ghana (LAG), 2010 - 2014 • Member, Linguistics Association of Ghana (LAG), 2009 - Date • Member, International Pragmatics Association (IPrA), 2002 - Date • Member, West African Linguistics Society (WALS), 2008 – Date • Council Member & Life Member, University of Ghana Alumni Association

National/International Board & Committees[edit]

• Interim Steering Committee Chair, African Humanities Program. 2019 – Date. • Interim Steering Committee Member, African Humanities Program. 2018 – 2019. • Consultation Board member, International Pragmatics Association (IPrA). 2017 – Date. • Advisory Board Member, Coalition of Persons against Sexual & Gender-Based Violence (SGBV) and Harmful Practices (CoPASH). A UNFPA Supported Program. 2018 – Date.[26] • Consultant/Trainer, Nursing & Midwifery Council of Ghana, 2015 – Date.

References[edit]

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External links[edit]

Coordinates: 05°39′03″N 00°11′13″W / 5.65083°N 0.18694°W / 5.65083; -0.18694

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  5. Amfo, Nana Aba Appiah | Department of Linguistics https://www.ug.edu.gh/linguistics/staff/amfo
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  14. Therapeutic Communication Competencies for Nurses and Midwives https://obadelekambon.com/pubs/therapeutic-communication/
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