Kwaku Owusu Afriyie Osei-Tutu (PhD)
Adjunct: English (Language & Linguistics)
Dr. Kwaku Owusu Afriyie Osei-Tutu has a PhD in English from Purdue University, USA, as well as a Post-Graduate Certificate in English as a Second Language (also from Purdue University). He also holds an MPhil and BA in English from the University of Ghana. His academic expertise lies in Ghanaian Pidgin, Sociolinguistics, Corpus Linguistics, and First-Year Writing pedagogy. Dr. Osei-Tutu engages himself in research that explores the structural and sociolinguistic dynamics of Ghanaian English and Pidgin. He is currently working collaboratively on project to analyse the writing of first-year university students.
- Written and Oral Communication
- Text and Meaning
- First-Year Writing
- English in Ghana
- Ghanaian Pidgin
- Sociolinguistics
- Bartens, A., Osei-Tutu, K. O. A., & De Lisser, T. N. (2024). In Bartens, A. & Slomanson, P. (Eds.), New Research on Circum-Caribbean Creoles and Language Contact (Studies in Caribbean Languages). Berlin: Language Science, pp. 97–129.
- Osei-Tutu, K. O. A., Orfson-Offei, E., & Osei-Tutu, A. A. Z. (2024). Revisiting the gender dichotomy in Ghanaian Student Pidgin: Investigating the role of single-sex versus co-ed high schools. Linguistica Atlantica, 40(1), 15–26.
- Osei-Tutu, K. O. A. (2024). Lexical borrowing in Ghanaian Student Pidgin (GSP) – The case of Akan loan words and loan translations. In Kuwabong, D., Faraclas, N. G., Yitah, H. A., & Anderson, J. A. (Eds.), New Scholarship on Ghanaian Literatures, Languages, and Cultures. Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing.
- Osei-Tutu, K. O. A., & Corum, M. (2024). Semantic change in Ghanaian Student Pidgin: On metonymy and noun-to-verb conversions. In Kuwabong, D., Faraclas, N. G., Yitah, H. A., & Anderson, J. A. (Eds.), New Scholarship on Ghanaian Literatures, Languages and Cultures. Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing.
- Osei-Tutu, A. A. Z., & Osei-Tutu, K. O. A. (2023). International perspectives on media disinformation: Critical media literacy as antiracist pedagogy. New Directions for Adult and Continuing Education, 105–117. https://doi.org/10.1002/ace.20490
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PhD in English (Language & Linguistics), Purdue University, USA
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Post-Graduate Certificate in English as a Second Language – Purdue University, USA
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MPhil in English (Language Option), University of Ghana
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BA in English Language with Linguistics, University of Ghana
