Kari Dako

List of John Benjamins publications in which Kari Dako is involved.

Articles

Dako, Kari 2013 Chapter 10. Student Pidgin: A masculine code encroached on by young women Gender and Language in Sub-Saharan Africa: Tradition, struggle and change, Atanga, Lilian Lem, Sibonile Edith Ellece, Lia Litosseliti and Jane Sunderland (eds.), pp. 217–231 | Article

The chapter describes Student Pidgin (SP), a relatively recent youth language in Ghana that we can trace from the late 1960 / early 1970. Pidgin has always been a male language in Ghana and can be traced to itinerant migrant labourers who brought pidgin from Liberia and Nigeria. Pidgin was also… read more

Dako, Kari 2001 Ghanaianisms: Towards a semantic and a formal classification English World-Wide 22:1, pp. 23–53 | Article

A list of vocabulary items peculiar to English in Ghana has been compiled over the last ten years. Included are items that have appeared in print at least three times within eight years. Most items were tested on Ghanaians of varying ages, ethnic backgrounds and levels of education to ascertain… read more