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Publication details [#59067]

Mavunga, George, John Mutambwa and Nhamo Kutsaru. 2014. ‘Iwe’ or ‘imi’? An analysis of terms of address used by police officers at Mbare Police Station. Language Matters: Studies in the Languages of Africa 45 (1) : 148–161.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

address | critical discourse analysis | language use | professional language

Place, Publisher

Routledge

Annotation

This paper explores terms of address used by Mbare Police Station officers at Harare in interaction with suspects or relatives visiting detainees. They cover pronouns, friend and kinship terms and metaphors, in information requests and institutionalised power display.