Akan Death-Prevention Names: A Pragmatic and Structural Analysis

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dc.contributor.authorObeng, Samuel Gyasi
dc.date.accessioned2008-07-24T17:58:08Z
dc.date.available2008-07-24T17:58:08Z
dc.date.issued1998
dc.descriptionThis article was posted with the permission of Maney Publishing.
dc.description.abstractThis 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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dc.identifier.citationObeng, Samuel Gyasi. Akan Death-Prevention Names: A Pragmatic and Structural Analysis. Names: a journal of onomastics 46, no. 3 (1998): 163-187.
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/2022/3154
dc.language.isoen_US
dc.publisherManey Publishing
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dc.subjectAfrican languages
dc.subjectGhana
dc.subjectnaming
dc.subjectonomastics
dc.subjectsociolinguistics
dc.titleAkan Death-Prevention Names: A Pragmatic and Structural Analysis
dc.typeArticle

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