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Mr. YAKUB, Mohammed

Mr. YAKUB, Mohammed
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  myakub@uew.edu.gh
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Publications

Yakub, M. (2024). 'Refuse dump, hurry up': A cognitive onomastic and cultural metaphor perspective of Nzema death-prevention names. Languages, 9, 1-18.

Yakub, M. & Owu-Ewie, C. (2023). A cultural-conceptual analysis of plant-related proverbs in Nzema. Journal of African Languages and Literatures, 4, 50-72.

Yakub, M. (2023). 'You can only see their teeth': A pragma-linguistic analysis of allusive personal names among the Nzema of Ghana. Nomina Africana: Journal of African Onomastics, 37(1), 37-57.

Yakub, M. (2023). A contextual-ethnographic study of Nzema proverbs related to some 'medical conditions'. Proverbium, 40, 223-247.

Yakub, M. (2023). Ethnopragmatic implications of food and consumption-related proverbs in Nzema. Journal of West African Languages, 50((1&2)), 157-174.

Yakub, M., Tomekyin, C., Ibrahim, R. T. & Nyame, J. (2022). Body-parts idioms as a linguistic tool for polite communication in Nzema. ALTRALANG Journal, 4(2), 426-446.

Yakub, M. (2022). Sociocultural implications of Nzema proverbs relating to children and adult. Journal of the Linguistics Association of Nigeria, 25(1&2), 176-196.

Yakub, M. & Tomekyin, C. (2022). The semantic extensions of pÔ‘ 'to cut' in Nzema communication. Studies in African Linguistics, 51(2), 277-293.

Yakub, M. & Agyekum, K. (2022). Metaphorical euphemisms in death-discourse among the Nzema. Studies in African Languages and Cultures, 56, 127-153.

Yakub, M., Ollennu, Y. A. A. & Delalorm, C. (2021). The pragmatic functions of some morphological structures in Nzema proverbs. Journal of Universal Language, 22(2), 145-180.

Yakub, M. (2021). The semantic extensions of tu 'to uproot'/'to pull out' in Nzema discourse: A conceptual metaphoric perspective. Sociolinguistic Studies, 15(1), 111-133.

Yakub, M. & Osei, W. A. (2020). Nzema proverbs about hard-work, perseverance and self-reliance. Studies in Literature and Language, 20(2), 21-28.

Yakub, M. (2020). The Nzema perception of abotane 'patience' as conveyed in their proverbial expressions. Studies in Literature and Language, 20(1), 83-89.

Yakub, M. (2020). Euphemistic-metaphors in Nzema discourse in sexuality. COOU Journal of Arts and Humanities, 5(3), 1-19.

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