Browsing by Author "Adika, S.G.K."
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Item Bringing Hinduism to bear on the Ghanaian situation: Lade Wosornu’s artistry as a call for spiritual renewal(Editions Rodopi, Amsterdam & New York, 2011) Adika, S.G.K.Relatively new on the African poetry landscape, the Ghanaian poet Ladé Wosornu exploits the complex relationships of multiculturalism and forges an artistic vision that invites us to look beyond our immediate cultural parameters for solutions to aspects of societal problems. This paper examines how Hindu spirituality has shaped Wosornu’s artistic voice, his portrayal of the Ghanaian situation, and his construction of a response to the problems identified. In the face of the growing interdependency across the globe, the hitherto nostalgic appeals to precedent albeit weakening traditional values should be complemented with a discerning receptiveness to other models of spiritual self renewal.Item Current Perspectives in Phono-Syntax and Dialectology(Black Mask Ltd, Accra, 2009) Adika, S.G.K.; Fabunmi, F.A.; Salawu, A.S.Item Deviant Usage and Confusing Words(Black Mask Ltd. Accra, 2011) Adika, S.G.K.Item Infelicitous use of Anaphoric “this” in undergraduate academic writing(Legon Journal of the Humanities, 2010) Adika, S.G.K.The objective of this paper is to describe the contexts of misuse of the 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 will extend the frame of reference for the analysis of such infelicities for instructional purposes. The study unearthed the following infelicities: (a0 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.Item Language and reality in Ladé Worsonu’s poetry(Rondebosch (South Africa); Centre for Advanced Study of African Society (CASAS)., 2012) Adika, S.G.K.This paper attempts to characterize the human experience that the Ghanaian poet Ladé Wosornu presents in his poetry: man's search for purity of heart and mind; a state of sublimity which, the poet argues, a man can attain if he is able to rise above the trappings of the physical world and journey into himself. The analysis focuses on five of Ladé Wosornu's poems selected from the collection Journey Without End and Other Poems (1997). The paper argues that Wosornu conceptualizes the non-physical in terms of and on the basis of the physical; and through his use of centripetalizing language presents the mind as a theatre of war between human perception of events outside the "body" and "human" experience within the body. Attaining sublimity then is transcending the inner conflicts through moments of transcendental meditation.Item Language teaching, critical voice and the construction of knowledge(Sub Saharan Publishers, 2012) Adika, S.G.K.