LANGUAGE IN AFRICAN SOCIAL INTERACTION: INDIRECTNESS IN AKAN COMMUNICATION

LANGUAGE IN AFRICAN SOCIAL INTERACTION: INDIRECTNESS IN AKAN COMMUNICATION

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CONTENTS

PROLOGUE

CHAPTER 1: INTRODUCTORY CONCEPTS

INTRODUCTION

WHAT IS INDIRECTNESS?

SOME INDIRECTNESS STRATEGIES

WHAT KIND OF DATA AND ANALYSIS?

WHO ARE THE AKAN PEOPLE?

THE AKAN LANGUAGE

WHAT DO THE OTHER CHAPTERS SAY?

CHAPTER 2: INDIRECTION IN INFORMAL CONVERSATION

INTRODUCTION

INDIRECTNESS STRATEGIES

CONCLUSIONS

CHAPTER 3: MY EYES OUTSTRIPPED MY BROWS; GUILT IS MINE: INDIRECTION IN APOLOGIES

INTRODUCTION

APOLOGY STRATEGIES

DISCUSSION

SUMMARY

CHAPTER 4: HIDING BEHIND VEILED WORDS IN REQUESTIVE EVENTS

INTRODUCTION

SETTING THE SCENE

REQUEST STRATEGIES

CONCLUSION

CHAPTER 5: INDIRECTION IN ADVISING

INTODUCTION

THE PROVERB IN AKAN

INDIRECTNESS IN MITIGATION AND POLITENESS

INDIRECTNESS AND INTERACTIONAL SEQUENCING

DISCUSSION

CHAPTER 6: INDIRECTION THROUGH PRONOUN MISMATCHING

INTRODUCTION

AKAN PRONOUNS

INDIRECTNESS IN PRONOMINAL USAGE

DISCUSSION

CHAPTER 7: INDIRECTION IN DISPUTE SETTLEMENTS

INTRODUCTION

RECENT WORK ON JUDICIAL DISCOURSE

AKAN JUDICIAL SYSTEM

PERSUASION

INDIRECTLY AUTHORED PERSUASIVE STRATEGIES

TALE

DISAGREEMENT

FORGIVING

GENDER

CONCLUSION

CHAPTER 8: OBLIQUENESS IN POLITICAL COMMUNICATION

INTRODUCTION

POLITICAL DISCOURSE

POLITICS IN AKANLAND AND IN GHANA

SOME OBLIQUE COMMUNICATION STRATEGIES

SUMMARY AND CONCLUSIONS

CHAPTER 9: SPEAKING THE UNSPEAKABLE THROUGH ONOMASIOLOGY

INTRODUCTION

INDIRECTNESS IN NAMES

PROVERBIAL NAMES

INNUENDO-ANTHROPONYMS

INDIRECT REQUESTIVE ANTHROPONYMS

NAMES INDIRECTLY EXPRESSING THE FINANCIAL STATE OF THE NAME-GIVER

INDIRECTION THROUGH DOG NAMES

CONCLUSION

CHAPTER 10: CONCLUSIONS AND IMPLICATION FOR POLITENESS THEORY

CONCLUSIONS

IMPLICATIONS OF INDIRECTNESS ON POLITENESS THEORY

EPILOGUE

REFERENCES

INDEX