Akua Campbell
List of John Benjamins publications in which Akua Campbell is involved.
Articles
2024 Sequentiality: A novel use of the perfect in Gã Studies in Language 48:4, pp. 781–812 | Article
This paper examines a hitherto unreported use of the Gã Perfect gram termed the ‘sequential perfect’. The sequential perfect represents a late stage of grammaticalization as it no longer conveys any aspectual information on its own, instead deriving its semantics from verbal categories in the… read more
2024 Language and power: Discursive strategies employed by interpreters in Ghanaian district courts Interpreting 26:1, pp. 55–79 | Article
This article investigates the power dynamics at play in interpreter-mediated discourse interactions in the district courts in Ghana. Using audio recordings of authentic courtroom proceedings, we analyzed the discursive practices performed by court actors, especially interpreters, and the ways in… read more
2020 “That’s not my understanding”: Interpretation in the Ghanaian multilingual court Language and Dialogue 10:3, pp. 389–421 | Article
This study investigates the extent to which mostly untrained interpreters render accurately the voices of participants in Ghanaian district courts, and how the participants orient to shortcomings in the interpretations. Based on 7.5 hours of audio-recordings, we found that 91% of interpretations… read more