Evershed Kwasi Amuzu

University of Ghana

Publishing since 2012, latest 2026

Linguistics and Language
Language and Linguistics
Literature and Literary Theory
Artificial Intelligence
Human-Computer Interaction
Communication

Publications: 222012–2026
Citations: 125to those papers
h-index: 5i10-index 4
Field-weighted impact: 0.861.00 is the world average
World top 10%: 14%3 of 22 scored papers
Open access: 41%9 papers free to read

By year

Papers, and the citations to them

Publications, left axisCitations to that year’s papers, right axis2026 still in progress

Publications

22 in all

Greetings as a linguistic routine among the people of Larteh in Ghana
2026South African Journal of African LanguagesJournalSenior author0 citations10.1080/02572117.2025.2584461
Discourse-Pragmatic Functions of Oh, Ah , and Aha in Ghanaian English
2026Corpus-based Studies across HumanitiesJournal

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Citations received each year

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What they work on

From the classification of each paper

Subfields

Linguistics and Language1777%
Language and Linguistics1359%
Literature and Literary Theory836%
Artificial Intelligence314%
Human-Computer Interaction314%
Communication29%
Experimental and Cognitive Psychology29%
Developmental and Educational Psychology15%
Epidemiology15%
General Health Professions15%

Health Sciences
Physical Sciences
Social Sciences

Topics most written on

Multilingual Education and Policy15
Linguistic Variation and Morphology10
Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies9
Second Language Learning and Teaching5
Digital Communication and Language3
Discourse Analysis in Language Studies3
EFL/ESL Teaching and Learning2
Linguistic Studies and Language Acquisition2
Linguistics, Language Diversity, and Identity2
Swearing, Euphemism, Multilingualism2
Categorization, perception, and language1
Hate Speech and Cyberbullying Detection1

Who they write with

Their most frequent co-authors, and the papers those co-authors share

Where their co-authors are

14% of their papers have a co-author abroad

papers co-written1111222Home

Most frequent partner countries

United States2
Pakistan1
Canada1

Papers with at least one author in that country.

Institutions written with most

University of Education, WinnebaGH2 papers
Memorial University of NewfoundlandCA1 paper
New York UniversityUS1 paper
University of California, San FranciscoUS1 paper
University of EducationPK1 paper
Tamale College of EducationGH1 paper
Foso College of EducationGH1 paper
Ho Technical UniversityGH1 paper
Sunyani Technical UniversityGH1 paper
Wisconsin International University CollegeGH1 paper

Where they publish

Ghana Journal of Linguistics3
International Journal of Bilingualism2
Lingua2
Corpus-based Studies across Humanities1
Current Issues in Language Planning1
Ghana Journal of Development Studies1

Development goals addressed

From each paper’s title and abstract

4Quality education14
3Good health and well-being1
10Reduced inequalities1
14Life below water1
16Peace, justice and strong institutions1

Most cited

Producing composite codeswitching: The role of the modularity of language production
International Journal of Bilingualism4
201342 citationsWorld top 10%
Socio-pragmatics of conversational codeswitching in Ghana
Ghana Journal of Linguistics4
201233 citationsWorld top 10%Open access · Green
Second Language Learners’ Family Background and Their English Writing Competence: The Case of a Private Tertiary Institution in Ghana

Ethnopragmatic and sociolinguistic interpretation of death-announcing euphemisms in Ewe

2025Studies of the Department of African Languages and Cultures/Studies in African Languages and CulturesJournalOpen access1 citation10.32690/salc59.4

Insertional Codeswitching in Two Triglossic Speech Communities in Ghana: Efutu (Winneba) and Ewe (Koforidua) in Focus

2025Springer handbooks in languages and linguistics.Book chapterFirst authorCorresponding0 citations10.1007/978-981-96-4729-3_9

Sociophonetics of [r] in Akan

2023Ghana Journal of LinguisticsJournalOpen accessSenior author0 citations10.4314/gjl.v12i2.1

Dialectal variation in lexical borrowings in Dangme

2022Legon Journal of the HumanitiesJournalOpen accessSenior author1 citation10.4314/ljh.v33i2.1

“That’s not my understanding”

2020Language and DialogueJournalFirst author2 citations10.1075/ld.00076.amu

Multilingualism and language practices of Nigerien migrants in Ghana

2019Current Issues in Language PlanningJournalFirst authorCorresponding5 citations10.1080/14664208.2019.1582944

Variations of [ɾ] in Dagbani female names

2019Southern African Linguistics and Applied Language StudiesJournal0 citations10.2989/16073614.2019.1671878

Errors on Ghanaian students’ written English: is speaking school pidgin English the cause

2016Ghana Journal of Development StudiesJournalOpen accessFirst authorCorresponding3 citations10.4314/gjds.v13i2.3

Codeswitching in West Africa

2014International Journal of BilingualismJournalFirst author11 citations10.1177/1367006913481135

Codeswitching as a means and a message in hiplife music in Ghana

2014Journal of African studiesJournal3 citations

Producing composite codeswitching: The role of the modularity of language production

2013International Journal of BilingualismJournalFirst authorCorresponding42 citations10.1177/1367006913481139

Socio-pragmatics of conversational codeswitching in Ghana

2012Ghana Journal of LinguisticsJournalOpen accessFirst authorCorresponding33 citations10.4314/gjl.v1i2.39

Journal of African studies1

How it can be read

41% free to read

Diamond 6 · 27%Free to read and to publish
Gold 1 · 5%In an open-access journal
Hybrid 1 · 5%Open in a subscription journal
Green 1 · 5%A copy in a repository
Closed 13 · 59%Behind a paywall

Who funds it

4 of 22 papers name a funder

Andrew W. Mellon Foundation2
University of Ghana2
Norges Teknisk-Naturvitenskapelige Universitet1

Studies in English Language Teaching4

201514 citationsOpen access · Diamond

Codeswitching in West Africa

International Journal of Bilingualism414

201411 citations

Multilingualism and language practices of Nigerien migrants in Ghana

Current Issues in Language Planning10

20195 citations