Indirectness in Pronominal Usage in Akan Discourse  

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Obeng, Samuel Gyasi

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Journal of Language and Social Psychology (Full Text) vol. 16 no. 2 (1997), page 201-221.
Topik: discourse; indirectness; pronomial; akan discourse
Fulltext: Journal of Language and Social Psychology 1997 16. 201-221.pdf (2.16MB)

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This article discusses the pragmatic import of akan personal pronouns by examining different personal pronouns an dshowing their address and referential values and meanings. It also discusses how in certain communicational contexts, specific personal pronoun are used to index referents other than the ones conventionally associated with a particular form. Apart from having a first person reference, be used to mean first person. The third person may, apart from its normal reference be used to index either the first or second person. The pronoun swithcing involves conventional indirectness. It has relevence for politeness and occurs when insinuating, critizing other people, during attention to social problems, and occurs when insinuating, criticizing other people, drawing attentions to social problems, complaining about an antisocial act, and showing friendliness or intimacy.

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