Publications
Publication details [#10437]
Akindele, Femi. 1988. The structure of family conversation in Yoruba English. In Steiner, Erich and Robert Veltman, eds. Pragmatics, discourse and text: Some systematically inspired approaches. Pinter. pp. 99–119.
Publication type
Article in book
Publication language
English
Keywords
Language as a subject
Annotation
A study of the relationship between socio-semantic concepts such as 'control' and 'dominance', and their manifestation in discourse. The author focuses on the influence of social status on the way in which conversations are initiated and controlled in Yoruba-English speaking families in Nigeria.