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Publication details [#49105]

Agyekum, Kofi. 2008. The pragmatics of Akan greetings. Discourse Studies 10 (4) : 493–516.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

anthropological linguistics | ethnography of speaking | greeting | politeness | pragmatics

Language as a subject

Akan

Place, Publisher

SAGE Publications

Journal WWW

www.sagepub.co.uk/ejournals/

Annotation

Considering greetings as one of the most frequently used linguistic interactional routines among the Akan in Ghana, this paper wil explore their main forms, functions and situations, within the frameworks of politeness and speech act theory and ethnography of communication.