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Agyekum, Kofi. 2002. The communicative role of silence in Akan. Pragmatics 12 (1) : 31–51.
Publication type
Article in journal
Publication language
English
Keywords
communicative competence | interlocutor | meaning | silence
Language as a subject
Akan
Place, Publisher
International Pragmatics Association
ISBN
1018-2101
Journal DOI
10.1075/prag

Annotation

This paper examines the communicative role and the linguistic, social and religious aspects of especially eloquent silence in Akan society.