Prof. Dora Francisca Edu-Buandoh, a Professor of English Language and a former Pro Vice-Chancellor for the University of Cape Coast has outlined unparliamentary language often used by Ghanaian parliamentarians on the floor of parliament to be a weapon disrupting the country's parliamentary discourse.

According to the UCC Professor, a survey conducted from 2005-2018 on unparliamentary comments used by parliamentarians on the floor of parliament, sited about 73 unsavoury comments passed which is a course to worry about.

The findings also included that the use of unparliamentary language borders on impoliteness because the language use integrity and credibility of Member of Parliaments affected, having had the language impute intellectual weakness in their person, as the survey revealed untruth, deception, and criminality in the personality of affected MP's.

Prof. Dora Edu-Buandoh made this statement at her inaugural lecture dubbed, "Discourses of Our Time: Power, Norms of Language Use, and Identity Formation."

The Professor of English added that unparliamentary discourses in present times have obscenities, provocative or threatening language, personal attacks, and insults which sometimes cloud the discuss on the floor of parliament.

She bemoaned the fact unparliamentary discourse in the discourse of our time has gone so bad that the Speaker of Parliament would had to use unparliamentary language to caution the use of unparliamentary discourse.

This was when the current Speaker of Parliament, Alban Sumana Kingsford Bagbin was compelled to caution Parliamentarians that they are not in a sort of market place where anyone can just rise and talk.

Source//Sompaonline.com/Eric Annan