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Language in African Social Interaction - Indirectness in Akan Communication (Paperback)
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Language in African Social Interaction - Indirectness in Akan Communication (Paperback)
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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.
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