The proverb as a mitigating and politeness strategy in Akan discourse.

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dc.contributor.authorObeng, Samuel Gyasi
dc.date.accessioned2008-08-04T14:35:47Z
dc.date.available2008-08-04T14:35:47Z
dc.date.issued1996
dc.descriptionThis article was posted with permission of the University of Nebraska Press.
dc.description.abstractAmong the Akan of Ghana, the proverb is highly valued as a mode of communication. Pragmatically, it may be used in the management of "face." Specifically, it may act as a mitigator that minimizes the offensive intent of an upcoming "difficult" utterance, it may show a speaker's humility or his acknowledgement of the addressee's sensibility by providing a common ground that does not impale the sensibility of any of the conversational participants; or it may show deference or solidarity. Structurally, it may function as a predifficult, a preclosing, or a closing.
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dc.identifier.citationObeng, Samuel Gyasi. "The proverb as a mitigating and politeness strategy in Akan discourse." Anthropological Linguistics 38, no. 3 (1996): 521-549.
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/2022/3165
dc.language.isoen_US
dc.publisherUniversity of Nebraska Press
dc.rightsAnthropological Linguistics was published by the Dept. of Anthropology, Indiana University, Bloomington and the American Indian Studies Research Institute. It is currently published by the University of Nebraska Press. Please contact the University of Nebraska Press for permission to reproduce or reuse this article.
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dc.subjectdiscourse analysis
dc.subjectsociolinguistics
dc.subjectWest Africa
dc.subjectethnolinguistics
dc.subjectGhana
dc.subjectproverbs
dc.titleThe proverb as a mitigating and politeness strategy in Akan discourse.
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