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Item Current perspectives in phono-syntax and dialectology(Department of Gur-Gonja, Faculty of Languages, University of Education, 457pp, 2009) Adika, G.S.K.; Fabunmi, F.A.; Salawu, A.S.Item Infelicitous use of anaphoric `this’ in undergraduate academic writing(Legon Journal of Humanities. (21): 99-126, 2010) Adika, G.S.K.The objective of this paper is to describe the contexts of misuse of anaphoric pronoun "this" in paragraphs composed by undergraduate students in their academic writing assignments and account for the infelicities, with the hope that the findings would extend the frame of reference for the analysis of such infelicities for instructional purposes. The study unearthed the following infelicities: (a) Ambiguous co-reference; (b) Extensive use of "this"; and (c) Textual distance between "this" and its referent. Practical intervention measures are proposed to help both students and instructors to deal with the problem.