“I have known….” A Corpus-driven Study of Personal Pronouns in Letters of Recommendation in an L2 Context
Osei Yaw Akoto 
, Benjamin Amoakohene & Juliet Oppong-Asare Ansah
Issue: Vol.5 No.6 Issue Article 14 pp.974-989
DOI: https://doi.org/10.38159/ehass.20245614 | Published online 19th June, 2024
© 2024 The Author(s). This is an open access article under the CCBY license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
Keywords: Corpus Linguistics, L2 Context, Letter of recommendation, English for Specific Purposes
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Osei Yaw Akoto (PhD) is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of English, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Ghana. He teaches courses in English for Academic Purposes, Sociolinguistics, Discourse Studies, and Pragmatics. His research interests include Linguistic Landscape, Onomastics, Corpus Linguistics, and ESP. He is the Founding President of Ghana Name Society. He has published articles in high-ranking journals such as Onoma, International Journal of Multilingualism, Corpus Pragmatics, and Linguistic Landscape.
Benjamin Amoakohene (PhD) is a Senior Lecturer at the Department of General and Liberal Studies of the University of Health and Allied Sciences, where he teaches Academic and Communicative Skills. He had his terminal degree in Applied Linguistics from the University of the Western Cape, South Africa. He has had the privilege to serve as the Examination Officer and the Head of Department at the Department of General and Liberal Studies of the University of Health and Allied Sciences at different times. His areas of research are Genre Studies, Discourse Analysis and Sociolinguistics. He is a member of the Systemic Functional Linguistics Group, Ghana, and Linguistic Association of Ghana.
Juliet Oppong-Asare Ansah is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Language and Communication Sciences, Faculty of Social Sciences, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Ghana. Master of Philosophy in Ghanaian Language. Currently, she is a PhD candidate in Linguistics at the University of Ghana. She teaches Semantics, Aesthetics of Oral Literature, Translation, Creative Writing, Pragmatics, and Akan Written Expression. Her research focuses on Ethnographic Linguistics, Diachronic Studies, Semantics and its interfaces, Language Contact and Translation Studies.
Akoto,Osei Yaw, Benjamin Amoakohene & Juliet Oppong-Asare Ansah. ““I have known….” A Corpus-driven Study of Personal Pronouns in Letters of Recommendation in an L2 Context,” E-Journal of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences 5, no.6 (2024): 974-989. https://doi.org/10.38159/ehass.20245614
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