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GHANA JOURNAL OF LINGUISTICS Volume 5 Number 1 2016 Editorial Committee:Ọbádélé Kambon (Editor-in-Chief; University of Ghana)E. Kweku Osam (Consulting Editor; University of Ghana)Gordon S. Adika (University of Ghana)Nana Aba A. Amfo (University of Ghana)Jemima A. Anderson (University of Ghana)Charles O. Marfo (Kwame Nkrumah University of Science & Technology) Editorial Board: Thomas Bearth (Switzerland)Gudrun Miehe (Germany)Felix Ameka (Netherlands) John Singler (USA) Paul Kerswill (UK)Ozo-Mekuri Ndimele (Nigeria)Emmanuel N. Abakah (Ghana)D. D. Kuupole (Ghana)Kwesi Yankah (Ghana) The Ghana Journal of Linguistics is a publication of the Linguistics Association of Ghana. Authors have sole responsibility for the content of their articles. The Ghana Journal of Linguistics is published by the Linguistics Association of Ghana. Mailing address: Linguistics Department, P.O. Box LG 61, Legon, Accra, Ghana.Email: info@laghana.org.© Linguistics Association of Ghana, 2016.ISSN e2026-6596 Table of ContentsPage E. Kweku OsamIn Memoriam: Emerita Professor Mary Esther Kropp Dakubu iv Modestus Fosu A Linguistic Description of The Language of Ghanaian 1Newspapers: Implications for The Readability, ComprehensibilityAnd Information Function of The Ghanaian Press Sewoenam Chachu “I Am Speaking French But I Am Thinking in English”: An Analysis Of 37Errors by Students of The French Language at The University of Ghana Joseph Omoniyi Friday-Otun A Pragma-Stylo-Semantic Analysis of Proverbs 26, Verses 4 And 5 55 Contributors to this Issue 76 The 30th WALC and 10th LAG Conference: Call for Papers 78 Format for References 80