Communication strategies: persuasion and politeness in Akan judicial discourse.
| dc.contributor.author | Obeng, Samuel Gyasi | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2008-07-28T14:03:57Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2008-07-28T14:03:57Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 1997 | |
| dc.description.abstract | 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. | en |
| dc.format.extent | 3762623 bytes | |
| dc.format.mimetype | application/pdf | |
| dc.identifier.citation | Obeng, Samuel Gyasi. Communication strategies: persuasion and politeness in Akan judicial discourse. Text 17, no.1 (1997): 25-51. | en |
| dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/2022/3157 | |
| dc.language.iso | en_US | en |
| dc.publisher | Mouton de Gruyter | en |
| dc.rights | This material is the copyright of Mouton de Gruyter. Please contact the publisher for information about reuse and reproduction. | en |
| dc.rights.uri | http://www.degruyter.com | en |
| dc.subject | Ghana | en |
| dc.subject | West Africa | en |
| dc.subject | discourse analysis | en |
| dc.subject | judicial process | en |
| dc.title | Communication strategies: persuasion and politeness in Akan judicial discourse. | en |
| dc.type | Article | en |
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