Publications

Publication details [#22916]

Yankah, Kwesi. 1991. Oratory in Akan society. Discourse & Society 2 (1) : 47–64.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

Indonesian

Keywords

formality | public speech | rhetoric

Language as a subject

Akan

Journal WWW

www.sagepub.co.uk/ejournals/

Annotation

Y. examines the Akan (Ghana) style of formal speech from a sociocultural perspective, focusing on stylistic and rhetorical strategies mitigating face-threatening acts.