Akan Death-Prevention Names: A Pragmatic and Structural Analysis
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1998
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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.
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African languages, Ghana, naming, onomastics, sociolinguistics
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Obeng, Samuel Gyasi. Akan Death-Prevention Names: A Pragmatic and Structural Analysis. Names: a journal of onomastics 46, no. 3 (1998): 163-187.
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