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A phonetic description of some repair sequences in Akan conversation.
(Mouton de Gruyter, 1992) Obeng, Samuel Gyasi
Natural human conversations are hardly 'error-free', due to the properties of interaction. Repair is therefor a concomitant part of any natural conversation. Phonetic (and sometimes Morpho-syntactic) cues are deployed to signal repair in conversation. Evidence is provided from natural interactions to show that such phonetic cues as pauses; prolongation of phonic or syllabic elements; loudness and pitch may be deployed singly or conjointly to signal repair. The paper also demonstrates that a detailed knowledge about repair provides a considerable insight into turn-regulation.
A Snapshot of Happiness: Photo Albums, Respectability, and Economic Uncertainty in Muslim Senegal
(Cambridge University Press, 2014-02) Buggenhagen, Beth
Young women who live in the improvised urban spaces on the outskirts of Senegal's capital city, Dakar, extemporize their respectability in a time of fiscal uncertainty through personal photography. The neighbourhood of Khar Yalla is an improvised, interconnected and multilayered space settled by families removed from the city centre during clean-up campaigns from the 1960s to the 1970s, by families escaping conflict in Casamance and Guinea-Bissau, and by recent rural migrants. As much as Khar Yalla is an improvised neighbourhood, it is also a space of improvisation. When women pose for, display, and pass around portraits of themselves at key moments in their social life, whether in the medium of social networking sites or photo albums, they reveal as much as they conceal the elements of individual and social life. They index their social networks and constitute their urban space not as peripheral, but as central to the lives and imaginations of their siblings and spouses who live abroad. Photographs actively shape and construct urban spaces, which are often loud, unruly and fraught spaces with vast inequalities and incommensurabilities. How women deal with economic and social disparity, within their own families, communities, and globally, is the subject of this article.
African Borderland Sculpture
(UCLA James S. Coleman African Studies Center, 1987) McNaughton, Patrick
African Literature in Comparative Perspective
(Department of Comparative Literature, Indiana University Bloomington, 1995) Julien, Eileen
Akan Death-Prevention Names: A Pragmatic and Structural Analysis
(Maney Publishing, 1998) Obeng, Samuel Gyasi
This paper discusses the content and types of Akan death-prevention names. It provides a structural linguistic analysis of the morphology of these names and presents a socio- and ethnolinguistic account of the death-prevention names as they function within Akan communication. The paper also classifies the names according to their structures. Death-prevention names are shown to be meaningful and to refer to the lives of both their bearers and the name-givers.
Are Births Just “Women’s Business?” Gift Exchange, Value, and Global Volatility in Muslim Senegal
(American Anthropological Association, 2011-11) Buggenhagen, Beth
Through global circuits of wage labor and capital, the Murid way has become an economic force in the Senegalese postcolony amid conditions of protracted global volatility. In this article, I analyze women's actions within these global circuits. Women create value by giving gifts during the celebration of births and marriages, gifts that are the product of and the motivating force behind Murid global trade. Female ritual activities, on which male honor rests, draw women into conflict with the Murid clergy, which views women's actions as customary and not part of its modern, austere, and global vision of Islam in Senegal.
Artists' Depictions of Senegalese Signares: insights concerning French racist and sexist attitudes in the nineteenth century.
(Institut universitaire d'études du développement (IUED) & Société suisse d'études africaines (SSEA), 1980) Brooks, George E.
Asante Queen Mothers: Precolonial Authority in a Postcolonial Society
(Institute of African Studies of the University of Ghana, Legon, 2003) Stoeltje, Beverly J.
While the Asantehene and Asantehemmaa are well known figures in Ghana, less familiar are the many queen mothers who function in parallel roles to chiefs in every Asante town and paramountcy. Ignored by the British and generally bypassed by modern Ghanaian leaders, queen mothers have nevertheless continued to serve their constituencies faithfully. More recently, however, globalization has discovered them, and external sources are beginning to seek them out for local projects. Yet, queen mothers continue to face serious obstacles as a precolonial female authority in a postcolonial society.
Asymmetric coordination in Lega
(Kölner Institut für Afrikanistik, Köln, Germany, 1998) Botne, Robert; Tak, Jin Young
Avatars of the Feminine in Senghor, Laye and Diop
(Williams College, Williamstown, Massachusetts, 1987) Julien, Eileen
Bamana Blacksmiths
(UCLA James S. Coleman African Studies Center, 1979) McNaughton, Patrick
Between agreement and case marking in Lamnso
(Indiana University Linguistics Club, 2002) Botne, Robert; McGarrity, Laura W.
Lamnso, a language in the Grassfields branch of Southern Bantoid, has a system of noun classes marked by (C)V affixes that attach to the stem. Noun modifiers agree with the noun by attaching a comparable affix that matches the class. This type of NP-level concord is typical of Bantu languages. At the clausal level, (C)V markers that are identical in form to those appearing at the NP-level appear as enclitics on virtually all nouns in a sentence. Though these markers are identical, it is argued that they serve separate functions, marking agreement on subject nouns before the verb and case on oblique object nouns after the verb. Direct objects and nouns in locative expressions are not marked. Typological evidence in the form of a grammatical relations hierarchy is discussed in support of these claims.
Cabo Verde: Gulag of the South Atlantic: Racism, Fishing Prohibitions, and Famines.
(African Studies Association, 2006) Brooks, George E.
Can we help fight cultural illiteracy?
(UCLA James S. Coleman African Studies Center, 1992) McNaughton, Patrick
Civil War in the Kingdom of Benin, 1689-1721: Continuity or Political Change?
(Cambridge University Press, 2001) Girshick, Paula Ben-Amos; Thornton, John
Using a combination of oral tradition and written documents, the authors show that Benin's civil war was a fundamental transformation of political structure, and not simply an isolated struggle. Before 1640, Benin was centrally governed by its king with the assistance of a royally appointed administration. Difficulties in succession, coupled with changing trading patterns, allowed the administration to gain some independence and then to challenge the kings, taking away some power. The civil war matched different levels of the administration and the kings against each other, and transformed Benin from a centrally governed to a more collectively governed kingdom.
Communication strategies: persuasion and politeness in Akan judicial discourse.
(Mouton de Gruyter, 1997) Obeng, Samuel Gyasi
Persuasive Akan judicial discourse includes a variety of effective strategies, among them the use of apologetic expressions or mitigators, deferential modes of reference, indirectly authored speech forms (e.g., tales, riddles, proverbs, etc. ), negotiation, complements, and acknowledgement of impositions. These persuasive strategies help legal professionals in dealing with the face-wants that arise in the judicial process. In this article, I demonstrate how Akan legal professionals, in persuading a chief and his elders to do what they will otherwise not do - pardon an appellant - employ one or more of these strategies to achieve their ends.
Contesting Clothes in Colonial Brazzaville
(Cambridge University Press, 1994) Martin, Phyllis M.
Conversational strategies: towards a phonological description of turn-taking in Akan.
(West African Linguistic Society, 1989) Obeng, Samuel Gyasi
Phonetic features have function relevance for conversational participants. I provide evidence from three natural conversations ( in Akan) to show that turn-taking correlates with such phonetic features as tempo and rhythm. I argue that rallentando or lento tempo deployed singly or conjointly with a drawled-syllable-time rhythm is turn delimitative. Allegro or accelerando tempo and a clipped-syllable-time rhythm are projective of further speakership by a current speaker. I also show co-participants' response to such features.
Dancing toward "La Mixite": Berber Associations and Cultural Change in Algeria
(Middle East Research and Information Project, 1996) Goodman, Jane
For Algerians "la mixite" -- a concept inadequately translated "mixed-sex behavior" -- encompasses a wide range of behaviors and assumptions about male-female interaction. Through dance, youth in Berber cultural associations in Algeria have begun to introduce new ways of thinking about both clan and gender relations.
Doing politics on walls and doors: a sociolinguistic analysis of graffiti in Legon (Ghana).
(Mouton de Gruyter, 2000) Obeng, Samuel Gyasi
Graffiti act as a medium through which political (including socio-political unmentionables are mentioned without the writer attracting any political or social sanctions. Graffiti in Legon (Ghana) have anonymous authors. Through graffiti, people of lower social/political status (students) express their opinions on political actors (people holding public office) and political decision making processes. They also express their anger and frustration about Ghana's political situation. Sequentially, the graffiti consist of stimuli followed by responses. They could therefore be said to constitute discourses with participants taking turns. Syntactically, the sentences are often short, and are of a simple sentence type. Graffiti exhibit all the properties of interaction - turn-taking, repair, opening and closing, adjacency pairs, indirectness, among other features.

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