WikiIndaba 2023/Submissions/Language As a Means of Communication Identity: A Discourse Analysis of Language Used in The Ghanaian Festivals
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Language As a Means of Communicating Identity: A Discourse Analysis of Language Used in The Ghanaian Festivals | ||
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| Author(s): Opoku Akaadom Sympathy | Username(s): Opoku Akaadom Sympathy | Type of submission: lecture, workshop | |
| Affiliation: -- Open Foundation West Africa, Wikimedians of Twi language User Group. | Theme(s): -- Education, Community Engagement, Media Outreach, and Diversity. -- | ||
| Abstract:
[[--The project meticulously examines and interprets how language conveys cultural identity among Ghanaians during festivals. The project will further interprets the use of literary devices like repetition, personification and paralanguage (intonation and gesture) employed in the traditional prayer and their effects in Ghana. --]] |
Level of advancement: -- Advanced -- | ||
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| Extra information: [[ In Ghana, traditionally, prayer is believed to be an important language tool in their cultural practices and meaning-making. however, in recent times, there is little or no regard for oral traditional language and cultural identity (beliefs) bequeathed from ancestors as a result of westernization.]] | |||
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