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Publication details [#12134]

Obeng, Samuel Gyasi. 1999. Grammatical pragmatics: Power in Akan judicial discourse. Pragmatics 9 (2) : 199–229.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

discourse strategy | language use | politeness | power

Language as a subject

Akan

Place, Publisher

International Pragmatics Association

ISBN

1018-2101

Journal DOI

10.1075/prag

Annotation

Akan judicial discourse strategies expressing power, politeness and attitudes are documented. It is noted that some judicial discourse strategies can also be found in everyday Akan conversation.