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Language in African Social Interaction
- Indirectness in Akan Communication
Engelsk Paperback
Language in African Social Interaction
- Indirectness in Akan Communication
Engelsk Paperback

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In African societies, much as plain or direct language is cherished and highly appreciated because of the pragmatic clarity it offers, implicitness, indirectness, vagueness, prolixity, ambiguity and even avoidance are even more cherished and preferred especially when the subject matter of what is being communicated is difficult or face-threatening. Verbal indirection, the communicational strategy in which interactants abstain from directness in order to avoid crises or in order to communicate ''difficulty'', and thus make their utterances consistent with face and politeness, is pervasive in African (Akan) social interaction. This groundbreaking book explores various linguistic and discursive devices speakers employ when engaged in indirectness. Among the linguistic and discursive strategies discussed are the use of: pronoun mismatching, nouns (especially proverbial names and other names with indirect meanings), evasions, hedges and various forms of pre sequences (which help to eliminate perceived obstacles to making such speech acts as announcements, requests, or invitations), acknowledgement of imposition, proverbs, metaphors, innuendoes, euphemisms, circumlocution, riddles, tales, hyperbolas, and communication through intermediaries or proxies.
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Sprog:
Engelsk
Sider:
183
ISBN-13:
9781590337837
Indbinding:
Paperback
Udgave:
ISBN-10:
1590337832
Udg. Dato:
9 okt 2003
Længde:
17mm
Bredde:
187mm
Højde:
263mm
Forlag:
Nova Science Publishers Inc
Oplagsdato:
9 okt 2003
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