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Selected Research Articles in Refereed Journals

1. Ofosu, D. D., Gyimah Manu, J., Washew, S., & Asafo-Adjei, R. (2026). “With all due respect, Mr. Chairman”: Polite expressions as mixed messaging strategies in Ghanaian Parliamentary Discourse. Globe: A Journal of Language, Culture and Communication, 20(1). DOI: https://doi.org/10.54337/ojs.globe.v20i1.10803                                                                                                                                    

2. Ofosu, D. D., Gyimah Manu, J., Washew, S., & Asafo-Adjei, R. (2025). “Hello my ears, are you still there?” Analysing Discursive Strategies in Yankah’s “Occasional Kwatriot’s” columns: A CDA approach. Ghana Journal of Linguistics, 14(2), 1-26. DOI: https://dx.doi.org/10.4314/gjl.v14i2.1                                                                                                                                                 

3. Gyimah Manu, J., Akoto, O. Y., Owusu Takyi, P., Oduro-Kwarteng, T., Ayine, B. A., & Suom-Kogle, C. F. (2025). Exploring L2 University Students’ Attitudes Toward English for Academic and Professional Purposes Course. Journal of Science and Technology, 43(4), 93-107. DOI: https://dx.doi.org/10.4314/just.v43i4.7                                                                                                                                                

4. Ofosu, D. D., Gyimah Manu, J., Sanka, M., & Washew, S. (2025). The Role of Conceptual Metaphors in Public Perception of Ghanaian Court Judgments. International Journal for the Semiotics of Law - Revue internationale de Sémiotique juridique. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s11196-025-10384-8                                                                                                                  

5. Akoto, O., Attitsogbui, S., & Gyimah Manu, J. (2025). On Critical Linguistic Landscape in Motion: A Decolonial Approach to Automobile Graffiti. Language Matters: Studies in the Languages of Africa, 56(2), 117-139. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/10228195.2025.2514596      

6. Asante, F., Akoto, O. Y., & Gyimah Manu, J. (2025). Leveraging Political Messaging with Religious Resonance: A Transitivity Analysis of the Easter Address of a Ghanaian President. E-Journal of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences (EHASS), 6(5), 536-549. DOI: https://doi.org/10.38159/ehass.20256513                                                                                                                                            

7. Gyimah Manu, J., ResCue, E., Nutakor, A. E., & Akoto, O. Y. (2024). Ghanaian language as a national language: perspectives of Ghanaian university students. Studies in African Languages and Cultures, 58(1), 67-96. DOI: https://doi.org/10.32690/SALC58.3                                                                                                                                                                                                          
8. Gyimah Manu, J., Ampong, B., & Marfo, C. O. (2023). Analysing Presupposition: A Study on President Akufo-Addo’s State of the Nation Address (SONA), 2022. Language Literacy: Journal of Linguistics, Literature, and Language Teaching, 7(2), 384-398. DOI: https://doi.org/10.30743/ll.v7i2.8035                                                                                                                                                   

9. Oppong, P. S., Yeboah, P. A. O., Gyimah Manu, J., & Issaka, C. A. (2023). The Heroine’s Monomyth: A Study of Buchi Emecheta’s Kehinde. NOBEL: Journal of Literature and Language Teaching, 14(2), 133-148. DOI: https://doi.org/10.15642/NOBEL.2023.14.2.133-14                                                                                                                                                                                                                           
10. Ofosu, D. D., Gyimah Manu, J. & Freitas, P. K. (2023). Exploring I-You Indexicals in Ghanaian Church Music. LLT Journal: A Journal on Language and Language Learning. 26(2), 411-422. DOI: https://doi.org/24071/llt.v26i2.6767                                                                     
11. Atta-Asamoah, O., Asare, E., & Gyimah Manu, J. (2023). "Chale Sup": Motivations and Perceptions of Pidgin English Usage in a Ghanaian Senior High School. International Journal of Humanity Studies IJHS, 7(1), 94-103. DOI: https://doi.org/10.24071/ijhs.v7i1.6975                 
12. Yeboah, P. A. O., Freitas, P. K., Otoo, P., & Gyimah Manu, J. (2023). "The Trees Shake their Heads in Defiance": Ecocritical Inscriptions in Selected Ghanaian Poems. Proglas. 32(1), 7-19. DOI: https://doi.org/10.54664/OPLQ9956                                                                       
13. Yeboah, P. A. O., Otoo, P., Gyimah Manu, J., & Freitas, P. K. (2022). "Grief and Resilience Live Together": An Assessment of Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesman. Celtic: A Journal of Culture, English Language Teaching, Literature and Linguistics. 9(2), 205218. DOI: https://doi.org/10.22219/celtic.v9i2.23114                                                                                                                                            
14. Yeboah, P. A. O., Gyimah Manu, J., & Freitas, P. K. (2022). "Proverbs are the Wisdom of the Streets": A Pragma-Stylistic Analysis of Proverbs in Kemi Adetiba's King of Boys Movie Franchise. E-Journal of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences (EHASS). 3(8), 323-336. DOI : https://doi.org/10.38159/ehass.2022384                                                                                                                                               
15. Gyimah Manu, J., Awuttey, W. M. & Freitas, P. K. (2022). A Stylistic Exploration of Headlines in Ghanaian Newspaper Editorials. E-Journal of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences (EHASS). 3(1), 1-15. DOI: https://doi.org/10.38159/ehass.2022311                                                                                                                                                              
16. Gyimah Manu, J. (2020). Presupposition in Ghanaian and British Newspaper Editorials: A Comparative Study. Ghana Journal of Linguistics, 9(1), 18-45. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.4314/gjl.v9i1.2

Selected Book Chapters

1. Gyimah Manu, J., & Afreh, E. S. (2024). Football and metaphor: The Ghanaian commentators' case. In E. Lavric, & G. Pisek (Eds.), Language and Football (pp. 123-150). Tübingen: Narr Francke Attempto Verlag. DOI:  https://doi.org/10.24053/9783823396246

Selected Conference Presentations

1. Gyimah Manu, J., ResCue, E., Nutakor, A. E., & Akoto, O. Y. (2025). “Belonging and Inclusivity: Perspectives of university students on Ghanaian language as a national language”. European Conference on African Studies, (ecas2025) Prague: African, Afropean, Afropolitan. 

2. Ofosu, D. D., Gyimah Manu, J., Sanka, M., & Washew, S. (2025). “Metaphors Ghana judge by: The role of metaphors in public perception of Ghanaian court judgments”. 17^th Linguistics Association of Ghana Annual Conference (LAG Conference 2025) 

3. Ofosu, D. D., Gyimah Manu, J., Klu, E. K., & Washew, S. (2025). “‘With all due respect, Mr. Chairman’: Polite expressions as mixed messaging strategies in Ghanaian Parliamentary Discourse”. 17^th Linguistics Association of Ghana Annual Conference (LAG Conference 2025) 

4. Gyimah Manu, J. (2025). “Translanguaging Practices in the English Classroom in Ghana”. Seminar/Lecture Series of the Sino-Ghana Research Centre for West Africa, Hubei University of Automotive Technology (HUAT), China, in collaboration with the School of Foreign Studies and Trade (SFST), HUAT, China. 

5. Yeboah, P.A.O., Freitas, P. K., Otoo, P., & Gyimah Manu, J. (2025). “The African Writer as Utilitarian: A Reading of Selected Literary Works by Ama Ata Aidoo”. Second Annual Conference of the Literature Association of Ghana (LITAG 2025) 

6. Yeboah, P.A.O., Marfo, C., Freitas, P.K., Gyimah Manu, J. & Oppong Siaw. P. (2024). “Anger Co-Exists with Connection: A Critical Analysis of the Paradoxes in Mother Daughter Relationships in Chika Unigwe’s Possessing the Secrets of Joy and Chimamanda Adichie’s Zikora”. Maiden Literature Association of Ghana Conference (LITAG 2024). 

7. Yeboah, P.A.O., Freitas, P.K., & Gyimah Manu, J. (2022). “Of the Immigrant Couples and Crushed Dreams: A Reading of Chimamanda Adichie’s The Arrangers of Marriage and Leila Aboulela’s Missing Out”. 14th Linguistics Association of Ghana Conference (LAG 2022). 

8. Gyimah Manu, J., & Afreh, E. S. (2021). “Football and Metaphor: The Ghanaian Commentators' Case”. Language and Football II Online Workshop: 46th Austrian Linguistics Conference.