Samuel Gyasi Obeng (born May 1959, Asuom, Ghana) is a Distinguished Professor of Linguistics at Indiana University Bloomington since 2006 and Editor-in-Chief of Africa Today.[1][2][3] He is the founding editor of Issues in Political Discourse Analysis and Issues in Intercultural Communication and a Distinguished Honorary Member of the African Language Research Project at the University of Maryland Eastern Shore. Obeng obtained his Master of Arts degree in Linguistics from the University of Ghana in 1981, and his Doctor of Philosophy degree of Language and Linguistic Science from the University of York, England, in 1988. He was a Senior lecturer at Ghana University, Legon, Accra (1987-1994) and Assistant professor at Indiana University, Bloomington since 1994. Obeng's research interests include political, juridical and therapeutic discourse analysis, African onomasiology, pidgin and Creole languages, conversational phonetics, language description and language documentation.
Obeng published many articles, books and book chapters, including:[4][5][6]
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