Publications

Publication details [#14129]

Gyasi Obeng, Samuel. 1999. Apologies in Akan discourse. Journal of Pragmatics 31 (5) : 709–734.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

apologizing | face maintenance | politeness | power | speech act

Language as a subject

Akan

Place, Publisher

Elsevier

ISBN

0378-2166

Journal WWW

www.sciencedirect.com/web-editions

Annotation

It is shown that Akan apology strategies combine both explicit and implicit strategies, and sometimes even compound strategies, involving a combination of two or more implicit strategies. This study also argues for a more ethnographically motivated approach to the study of politeness.