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Publication details [#51675]

Jackson, Jennifer L. 2009. To tell it directly or not: Coding transparency and corruption in Malagasy political oratory. Language in Society 38 (1) : 47–69.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

code | oratory | political speech | political system | transparency

Language as a subject

Madagascan

Place, Publisher

Cambridge University Press

Journal WWW

journals.cambridge.org/

Annotation

This paper discusses (meta)linguistic transparency versus corruption encodings in the urban communicative styles of highland Malagasy political orators.