“Development means eye-red”: Communicating feelings in Glocalised Ghanaian English

An outcome of the spread of English around the world is its adoption by others for communicating local attitudes and values, ways of thinking and feeling. Some of the linguistic forms used in expressing feelings in Ghanaian English are not easily understood by speakers of other Englishes. Dr Ameka examines three expressions and relate the discussion to the figurative use and semantics of body-image expressions for feelings across languages and cultures.