Download or read book Indirection and Ambiguity as a Mode of Communication in West Africa written by Delbert Howard Tarr and published by . This book was released on 1979 with total page 588 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Indirection and ambiguity as a mode of communication in West Africa written by Delbert H. Tarr and published by . This book was released on 1982 with total page 550 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Indirection and Ambiguity as a Mode of Communication in West Africa written by Delbert Howard Tarr and published by . This book was released on 1979 with total page 550 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Speaking for the Chief written by Kwesi Yankah and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 1995-06-22 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "... offers readers profound insights and useful information on the power of the word in African societies... " -- Research in African Literatures "I would recommend Speaking for the Chief not only to students of West African culture, by whom it should be greatly welcomed, but also to anyone intersted in issues surrounding specific genres of discourse in relation to cultural organization." -- Journal of American Folklore "Drawing on the interdisciplinary modes of sociolinguistics, political anthropology, and the ethnography of speech, Yankah allows the reader to hear a little-known and even less studied 'voice' integral to Akan chiefly power. This book deserves the serious attention of Akan and Africanist scholars alike." -- Choice "... an unprecedented opportunity to understand West African oratory from the point of view of a native Akan speaker who is also a gifted linguist and ethnographer.... [Yankah] shows with elegance the connections between verbal strategies and the cultural organization of West African social systems." -- Alessandro Duranti "This study is clearly important in ethnographic terms... But it equally throws new light on more general aspects of verbal and political processes.... will stimulate both specialists and students far beyond the confines of its specific ethnographic setting." -- American Anthropologist "... an immensely valuable book which deserves a wide and appreciative readership." -- Journal of African History
Download or read book Called and Empowered written by Murray W. Dempster and published by Baker Books. This book was released on 1991-10-01 with total page 455 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "An unprecedented mix of pentecostal theology and mission practice, virtually a manifesto for pentecostal missions. . . . The fullest and finest missiological treatise originating within classical Pentecostalism available."--Russell P. Spittler
Download or read book The Journal of West African Languages written by and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 560 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Cambridge Handbook of Linguistic Typology written by Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2017-03-30 with total page 1661 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Linguistic typology identifies both how languages vary and what they all have in common. This Handbook provides a state-of-the art survey of the aims and methods of linguistic typology, and the conclusions we can draw from them. Part I covers phonological typology, morphological typology, sociolinguistic typology and the relationships between typology, historical linguistics and grammaticalization. It also addresses typological features of mixed languages, creole languages, sign languages and secret languages. Part II features contributions on the typology of morphological processes, noun categorization devices, negation, frustrative modality, logophoricity, switch reference and motion events. Finally, Part III focuses on typological profiles of the mainland South Asia area, Australia, Quechuan and Aymaran, Eskimo-Aleut, Iroquoian, the Kampa subgroup of Arawak, Omotic, Semitic, Dravidian, the Oceanic subgroup of Austronesian and the Awuyu-Ndumut family (in West Papua). Uniting the expertise of a stellar selection of scholars, this Handbook highlights linguistic typology as a major discipline within the field of linguistics.
Download or read book Nurturing Language written by Gerrit J. Dimmendaal and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2022-11-07 with total page 443 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This monograph introduces students and scholars in linguistics, anthropology, and intercultural communication to anthropological linguistics, with a special focus on Africa. Among the topics addressed are semantic fields such as kinship or colour terminology, spatial orientation, linguistic relativity and the link between language and cognition, onomastics, the ethnography of communication, interactional sociolinguistics, emotions, (im)politeness strategies, conversation analysis, and non-verbal communication.
Download or read book Language in African Social Interaction written by Samuel Gyasi Obeng and published by Nova Biomedical Books. This book was released on 2003 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In African societies, much as plain or direct language is cherished and highly appreciated because of the pragmatic clarity it offers, implicitness, indirectness, vagueness, prolixity, ambiguity and even avoidance are even more cherished and preferred especially when the subject matter of what is being communicated is difficult or face-threatening. Verbal indirection, the communicational strategy in which interactants abstain from directness in order to avoid crises or in order to communicate 'difficulty', and thus make their utterances consistent with face and politeness, is pervasive in African (Akan) social interaction. This groundbreaking book explores various linguistic and discursive devices speakers employ when engaged in indirectness. Among the linguistic and discursive strategies discussed are the use of: pronoun mismatching, nouns (especially proverbial names and other names with indirect meanings), evasions, hedges and various forms of pre sequences (which help to eliminate perceived obstacles to making such speech acts as announcements, requests, or invitations), acknowledgement of imposition, proverbs, metaphors, innuendoes, euphemisms, circumlocution, riddles, tales, hyperbolas, and communication through intermediaries or proxies.
Download or read book Research in African Literatures written by and published by . This book was released on 1981 with total page 630 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Vol. 1- , spring 1970- , include "A Bibliography of American doctoral dissertations on African literature," compiled by Nancy J. Schmidt.
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Download or read book The Rhetoric of Change written by José Delgado-Figueroa and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book The Handbook of Pidgin and Creole Studies written by Silvia Kouwenberg and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2009-02-11 with total page 704 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Featuring an international contributor list, this long-awaited and broad-ranging collection examines the key issues, topics and research in pidgin and creole studies. A comprehensive reference work exploring the treatment of core aspects of pidgins/creoles, focusing on the questions that animate creole studies Brings together newly-commissioned entries by an international contributor team Accessibly structured into four sections covering: the character of pidgins and creoles; the relation of pidgins/creoles to other language phenomena and other languages; issues in pidgin/creole genesis; and the role of pidgins/creoles in society Provides a valuable resource for students, scholars and researchers working across a number linguistic disciplines, including sociolinguistics, historical linguistics, and the anthropology of language
Download or read book The Rhetoric of Western Thought written by James L. Golden and published by Kendall Hunt. This book was released on 2003 with total page 548 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Nsiirin Nsiirin written by Eren Giray-Saul and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The majority of the tales chosen arc extracted from storytelling occasions involving a number of raconteur families coming from different areas of Burkina Faso and West Africa, yet recounting their oral traditions in Jula. As such, the stories represent a natural retelling of the tellers themselves as well as that of the compiler and translator.
Download or read book Journal of Folklore Research written by and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
