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Obeng, Samuel Gyasi. 1994. Verbal indirection in Akan informal discourse. Journal of Pragmatics 21 (1) : 37–65. 29 pp.
Publication type
Article in journal
Publication language
English

Abstract

Interactants employ various forms of verbal indirection to embellish their utterances, to draw other interactants' attention to relevant issues, to persuade them, to minimize social and/or communicational tension, and to settle personal scores. Indirection plays a significant role in conversational management as well as in the maintenance of face and in politeness. It finds expression in proverbs, circumlocution, metaphors, euphemisms etc. (Samuel Gyasi Obeng)