Language in african social interaction

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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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Bronze Age metalworking in the Netherlands (C. 2000 - 800 BC)

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Almost fifty years ago j j butler started his research to trace the possible remains of a bronze age metalworkers workshop in the netherlands yet while metalworking has been deduced on the ground of the existence regional types of axes and some scarce finds related to metalworking the production Uiterlijk 25 januari in huis .. MEER INFO

Taal: en

Bindwijze: Hardcover

Oorspronkelijke releasedatum: 09 oktober 2003

Aantal pagina's: 183

Illustraties: Nee

Hoofdauteur: Samuel Gyasi Obeng

Hoofduitgeverij: Nova Biomedical

Editie: New title

Extra groot lettertype: Nee

Product breedte: 184 mm

Product hoogte: 19 mm

Product lengte: 267 mm

Verpakking breedte: 230 mm

Verpakking hoogte: 17 mm

Verpakking lengte: 155 mm

Verpakkingsgewicht: 590 g

EAN: 9781590337837

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