ABSTRACT Retirement from work is inevitable and it is one of the major transitions an individual goes through and this transition has significant psychosocial implications which should not be ignored. Though retirement and the experiences thereof are subjective and differ from individual to individual, it has financial, family, psychological, and social implications which affect the overall well-being or happiness of those retirees. Namibian organisations lack life skills initiatives to prepa...
ABSTRACT It is the right of every child to get an identity and nationality. Birth registration involves documentation of a child’s birth in the civil register by the government authority and it is the first legal document of a child. It provides vital information that facilitates planning and development in a country. In Ghana, about 50% of children under five are registered. In recent years, maternal education is said to be influencing birth registration. Specifically, it is proposed tha...
ABSTRACT Branding in the theatre seeks to connect a theatre company and its product to its audience. This is with the aim of achieving a company‟s mission and audience satisfaction. Though generally not much attention has been paid to branding in theatre practice, however, it is important to note that a few theatre practitioners are working towards improving this aspect of theatre. Amongst the groups and companies who engage in theatre practice in Ghana, Roverman Productions is one of the...
ABSTRACT This research investigated the attitude of television audiences towards commercial breaks in programmes through a survey of 200 respondents from the University of Ghana. Multi-stage sampling was employed which involved the use of purposive sampling and systematic sampling. Findings indicated that the majority of the respondents watched commercial breaks. It was revealed that most of them made a motivated choice as to whether to watch or avoid commercial breaks. Also, the majority of...
ABSTRACT Every organization depends on records to perform its activities and these records are managed by records personnel. Records personnel, like other employees, need to be satisfied with their jobs or there would be no motivation to work hard. In turn, hardworking employees contribute greatly to the success of every organization. The aim of this study was to examine the issue of job satisfaction among career records personnel in the Civil Service of Ghana. Civil Servants from twenty-sev...
ABSTRACT Internal communication has become a crucial part of organisational development today. This is because scholars have classified employees as the most important publics for organisations. Therefore effective communication with employees is indispensable and inevitable in organisations. The purpose of this study was to ascertain the state of internal communication of information on digital migration at Ghana Broadcasting Corporation (GBC). To better ascertain the state of internal comm...
ABSTRACT The study is concerned with the use of figure of speech in the language of politics. The study is divided into five chapters. Chapter one introduces with what language is and the problem of the issue of political language. In this chapter aim and objectives of the project are clearly stated Literature review forms the background of the second chapter. We take a look at the language and society, language and politics and its features, the notion of lexico- semantic properties o...
ABSTRACT This study investigated the writings of Alain Mabanckou, the giant Congolese literary writer for mystification and demystification as a trope he employs in his writings. It was guided by two theoretical underpinnings which are Roland Barthes‘ perspectives on myth: myth as a type of speech and myth as a semiological system. It was also guided by the post-colonial theory with leanings on Homi Bhabha‘s Hybridity, Mimicry and Ambivalence. Three specific objectives guided this study....
ABSTRACT This thesis reports the findings of the ethnolinguistic study of the use of space in communication in Maasai society. It examined how Maasai use genealogical and geographical space to construct social and linguistic categories which affect communication among the society members. The findings of the study are presented from the transcriptions of the participant observation made in the natural settings of occurrence and supported by the information from face-to-face and group intervi...
ABSTRACT This study was designed to examine issues related to morpho-syntactic errors among secondary school students in Tanzanian English Language Classrooms. Specifically, the study aimed at: identifying common morpho-syntactic errors committed by students in English language classrooms, finding out possible factors for students‟ errors and assessing the corrective feedback techniques that teachers use to correct their students‟ errors (both written and spoken errors). The study employ...
ABSTRACT When a woman is faced with an unintended pregnancy the onus lies on her to either carry the pregnancy to term or terminate it, and in the developing world the majority of these are terminated unsafely. The problem of induced abortion can further be exacerbated when they become repeated. Women who have previous records of induced abortion stand a greater risk of resorting to it again when the need arises. It is therefore necessary to note the factors that serve as contributors to the...
ABSTRACT For understanding the formation of public opinion or citizen action which appears in the form of anti-nuclear or pro-nuclear movements, there is the need to analyse media content for the development of this subject matter over a period of time as the media influences public awareness of issues through framing of news. This study examined the frames, direction of story, placement of story and sources cited in the newspaper coverage of nuclear issues in Ghana. Data was collected by me...
ABSTRACT This study report has shown the findings of the study of the Gogo fairy tales in Gogo community of Dodoma Region. In particular, the study makes a description and analysis of the linguistic practices and language used in Gogo fairy tales. In doing so, the study collected the fairy tales of Gogo community, and creates a data base of Gogo fairy tales drawing extensively from the theory of communicative genres that helped in the analysis of the linguistic and structural communicative f...
ABSTRACT The subject of this research is ‗An Exegetical and Theological Study of the Institution of the Lord‘s Supper: Luke 22:7-23‘. With a background of meals from the socio-cultural and religious perspectives, the dissertation talks about the social and religious significance of meals in both ancient and modern cultures. As one of the important institutions of Jesus before his demise, the Supper is affirmed to have been taken after the Jewish Passover meal. The thesis first investi...
ABSTRACT This study examined coverage of Boko Haram by local and international media between April 2014 and March 2015. Backgrounded in the theories of agenda-setting and framing, the study undertook a quantitative content analysis of online news reportage of the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC), the Ghana Broadcasting Corporation (GBC) and the Nigerian Television Authority (NTA) to ascertain the differences in coverage as well as the sources of news on Boko Haram, and how these determ...