Felix Ameka is Professor by Special Appointment and Senior University Lecturer at the Centre for Linguistics.

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Fields of interest

• Descriptive and documentary linguistics 
• Semantics and Pragmatics 
• Linguistic typology 
• Anthropological linguistics 
• Ethnography of communication 
• Language contact and areal linguistics 
• West African languages

Research

My primary research interests are the quest for the meaning of linguistic signs and exploring their use in social interaction. I am also interested in how and why languages vary and chagne over time and space, also in the reflexice relation between language, culture and cognition. I am concerned with questions of how cultural factors and cognitive processes as well as contact shape meanings and structures of languages. I work with primary data collected using ethnographic and experimental methods. My empirical specialisation is West African languages, mainly Kwa languages and other languages of wider communication, namely, Hausa and Fulfulde. My focus is on Gbe, i.e. Ewe, Gen Aja and Fon; Ghana-Togo-Mountain languages, especially Likpe; Guang and Akanic languages.

Teaching activities

Courses I teach include: Communication in Africa 
Language Use and Diversity 
Words and Meaning 
Anthropological Linguistics 
Language, Culture and Cognition

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