Esther Serwaah Afreh
The researcher's work is a multidisciplinary exploration of metaphor, conceptual thinking, and cognitive processes across diverse domains. Their research integrates insights from linguistics, social sciences, and beyond, examining how language, metaphors, and cognition shape cultural expressions, technological interfaces, and everyday communication strategies.
Faculty Biography
Dr. Esther Serwaah Afreh is a scholar in linguistics. She received her Ph.D. in Linguistics from the University of Ghana, Legon. She holds an MA in Cognitive Linguistics from the University of Brighton, UK, and an MPhil in English from the University of Cape Coast. She has taught at KNUST for over ten years. She is the author of Grammar and Usage for Tertiary Students. Her research has concentrated on issues in Cognitive Semantics, that is, on conceptual content and its organisation in language. Her focus has been on how conceptual metaphor and related cognitive processes such as metonymy and blending are exploited for creative purposes in language use in Ghana. Her objective has been to demonstrate the relationship between language, culture and thought and also to reveal the existence of a coherent conceptual organisation in language, which derives from our bodily and social experience.
Digital Communication and Language
Discourse Analysis in Language Studies
EFL/ESL Teaching and Learning
Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies
Language, Metaphor, and Cognition
linguistics and terminology studies
Media, Gender, and Advertising
Risk Management in Financial Firms
Second Language Acquisition and Learning
Syntax, Semantics, Linguistic Variation
A Corpus-Based Cross-Disciplinary Study of Unattended Anaphoric Pronouns in L2 Postgraduate Theses
Open AccessGender Differences in the Communication Styles of Vice-Chancellors: A Case Study of Professor (Mrs.) Rita Akosua Dickson and Professor Kwasi Obiri-Danso
Open AccessThe Language of Grief: The Role of Conceptual Metaphors in Family Tributes of Ghanaian Funeral Ceremonies
Syntax, Technology and Politics: Analyzing Political Facebook Posts
Open AccessA Comparative Corpus-Based Study of Genitive Variation in Written Native and Non-Native Speakers’ Narratives
Open AccessA diachronic corpus-based study of hedging in L2 postgraduate theses in civil engineering
Open AccessExploring Informality in L2 Postgraduate Theses from a Cross-Disciplinary Perspective
Open AccessA Morpho-Syntactic Analysis of Gender-Fair Language in Advertisements of Cosmetic Products in Ghana
Open AccessThe Discourse Functions of Antonyms in Faceless by Amma Darko
Open AccessNana Addo Dankwa Akuffo-Addo’s Inaugural Address: Conceptual Metaphors, Metonymies and Values to Celebrate a Presidency
Open AccessMetaphors Otumfoɔ Lives by: A Cognitive Linguistic Study of Metaphors in some Addresses by Otumfoɔ Osei Tutu ii, Asantehene
Hedging Strategies in Health Discourse : A Study of Pharmaceutical Leaflets
Open AccessThe metonymic and metaphoric conceptualisations of the heart in Akan and English
Open AccessDepartment of English
Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology