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Publication details [#25537]

Obeng, Samuel Gyasi. 1994. Verbal indirection in Akan informal discourse. Journal of Pragmatics 21 (1) : 37–65.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

conversational organization | face maintenance | indirect expression | politeness

Language as a subject

Akan

Place, Publisher

Elsevier

ISBN

0378-2166

Journal WWW

www.sciencedirect.com/web-editions

Annotation

This article investigates the communicative strategies that express indirectness in Akan informal conversations and the role of indirection in face maintenance and in politeness.