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Author : Samuel Gyasi Obeng
Publisher : Koppe
Page : 206 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : STANFORD:36105110518136
Author : Simeon Floyd,Giovanni Rossi,N. J. Enfield
Publisher : Language Science Press
Page : 435 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2024-05-18
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783961102785
Getting others to do things is a central part of social interaction in any human society. Language is our main tool for this purpose. In this book, we show that sequences of interaction in which one person’s behaviour solicits or occasions another’s assistance or collaboration share common structural properties that provide a basis for the systematic comparison of this domain across languages. The goal of this comparison is to uncover similarities and differences in how language and other conduct are used in carrying out social action around the world, including different kinds of requests, orders, suggestions, and other actions brought together under the rubric of recruitment.
Author : Emmanuel Koffi Yankey
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 504 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Electronic
ISBN : IND:30000067780704
Author : Sijmen Tol,Hella Olbertz,Mark Janse
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 1674 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2004-12-10
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 1402030088
Bibliographie Linguistique/ Linguistic Bibliography is the annual bibliography of linguistics published by the Permanent International Committee of Linguists under the auspices of the International Council of Philosophy and Humanistic Studies of UNESCO. With a tradition of more than fifty years (the first two volumes, covering the years 1939-1947, were published in 1949-1950), Bibliographie Linguistique is by far the most comprehensive bibliography in the field. It covers all branches of linguistics, both theoretical and descriptive, from all geographical areas, including less known and extinct languages, with particular attention to the many endangered languages of the world. Up-to-date information is guaranteed by the collaboration of some forty contributing specialists from all over the world. With over 20,000 titles arranged according to a detailed state-of-the-art classification, Bibliographie Linguistique remains the standard reference book for every scholar of language and linguistics.
Author : Christopher R. Green,Samson Lotven
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 314 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2024-05-13
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783985540983
There is a long and rich tradition of excellence in Ghanaian linguistics and the detailed study of Ghanaian languages. This tradition has expanded by leaps and bounds in recent years, thanks in part to a cadre of renowned and highly productive Ghanaian linguists conducting research at universities around the globe, as well as in Ghana itself. So too has the commitment to careful description, documentation, and theorizing underlying this tradition been extended to the students that these scholars have trained. The papers in this volume reflect the vast reach of this research tradition, grounded in but expanding beyond Ghanaian languages, ranging from experimental phonetics, to language description, to political discourse analysis.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 500 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : African languages
ISBN : UVA:X006174323
Author : Samuel Gyasi Obeng
Publisher : Nova Biomedical Books
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Education
ISBN : UOM:39015057653373
In African societies, much as plain or direct language is cherished and highly appreciated because of the pragmatic clarity it offers, implicitness, indirectness, vagueness, prolixity, ambiguity and even avoidance are even more cherished and preferred especially when the subject matter of what is being communicated is difficult or face-threatening. Verbal indirection, the communicational strategy in which interactants abstain from directness in order to avoid crises or in order to communicate 'difficulty', and thus make their utterances consistent with face and politeness, is pervasive in African (Akan) social interaction. This groundbreaking book explores various linguistic and discursive devices speakers employ when engaged in indirectness. Among the linguistic and discursive strategies discussed are the use of: pronoun mismatching, nouns (especially proverbial names and other names with indirect meanings), evasions, hedges and various forms of pre sequences (which help to eliminate perceived obstacles to making such speech acts as announcements, requests, or invitations), acknowledgement of imposition, proverbs, metaphors, innuendoes, euphemisms, circumlocution, riddles, tales, hyperbolas, and communication through intermediaries or proxies.
Author : Cliff Goddard
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2011-04-20
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783110911114
The studies in this volume show how speech practices can be understood from a culture-internal perspective, in terms of values, norms and beliefs of the speech communities concerned. Focusing on examples from many different cultural locations, the contributing authors ask not only: 'What is distinctive about these particular ways of speaking?', but also: 'Why - from their own point of view - do the people concerned speak in these particular ways? What sense does it make to them?'. The ethnopragmatic approach stands in opposition to the culture-external universalist pragmatics represented by neo-Gricean pragmatics and politeness theory. Using "cultural scripts" and semantic explications - techniques developed over 20 years work in cross-cultural semantics by Anna Wierzbicka and colleagues - the authors examine a wide range of phenomena, including: speech acts, terms of address, phraseological patterns, jocular irony, facial expressions, interactional routines, discourse particles, expressive derivation, and emotionality. The authors and languages are: Anna Wierzbicka (English), Cliff Goddard (Australian English), Jock Wong (Singapore English), Zhengdao Ye (Chinese), Catherine Travis (Colombian Spanish), Rie Hasada (Japanese) and Felix Ameka (Ewe). Taken together, these studies demonstrate both the profound "cultural shaping" of speech practices, and the power and subtlety of new methods and techniques of a semantically grounded ethnopragmatics. The book will appeal not only to linguists and anthropologists, but to all scholars and students with an interest in language, communication and culture.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 36 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Africa, West
ISBN : UOM:39015068858896
Author : Federica Guerini
Publisher : Peter Lang
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 303910988X
This book is one of the first systematic studies to describe the linguistic repertoire and the communicative strategies adopted by Ghanaian immigrants in Italy. The linguistic repertoire of the Ghanaian community in Bergamo (Northern Italy) is described with a special focus on the different codes composing it. The author analyzes the role that each code plays in expressing the community members' ethnic and linguistic identity, and the speakers' attitudes towards each code. She draws on the results of qualitative analysis - adopting both a macro-sociolinguistic and a micro-sociolinguistic perspective - of a database of face-to-face interactions and of formal interviews involving a selected group of Ghanaian immigrants.
Author : Alison Roberts
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 179 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2018-10-24
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781351687430
Some people worry about participating in social settings because they lack confidence in their conversation skills. They may dread an evening at the pub or even just a chat with one friend, for fear of saying the wrong thing, not being able to think of anything to talk about, or whether they will find themselves feeling generally embarrassed about their conversational technique. This book offers a structure to help with the skills needed for initiating, maintaining, and ending conversations. It looks at casual chat and formal talk with one person face-to-face and on the phone, as well as how to converse in a group. There are over 30 chapters, each dealing with an aspect of conversation such as Greetings How to remember names Being topical, Using humour Reminiscing Repairing conversational gaffs, Escaping! The Conversational Menu Each topic is considered and discussed; exercises are suggested; "homework" is given on credit-card-sized cards, and then the Checklist is filled in, so that learning is secure. This is a complete course on conversation skills. designed for people over 16, either to work with the Speech and Language Therapist, or for some, to work on their own. Alison Roberts is a Speech and Language Therapist whose work has chiefly focused for the last 20 years on the communication needs of 11-25 year-olds with a wide variety of intriguing differences in ability. She works with several brilliant therapists who together form a team called Good Communication. Alison lectures to SLT students and to Careers Advisers and has written several sets of cards and books which have been published by Speechmark Publishing. She is also an enthusiastic craftswoman with an endless need and desire to devise her own SLT games, which gave rise to the original series of articles in the Speech and Language Therapy in Practice magazine.
Author : Seth Ofori
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 398 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Electronic
ISBN : IND:30000095227157
As for reduplication, we describe and analyze a wide variety of reduplicative constructions in the language, including verbal, adjectival, nominal, adverbial and ideophonie reduplication.
Author : Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 724 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : African Americans
ISBN : UOM:39015065694823
Author : Adams Bodomo,Charles Marfo,Lauren Hall-Lew
Publisher : Center for the Study of Language and Information Publica Tion
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Twi language
ISBN : 1575866048
Let's Speak Twi is an introductory textbook for those seeking proficiency in Akan/Twi, the most widely used and understood native language of Ghana. This book is a systematic introduction to Akan and Ghanaian culture through the language learning process. Included are exercises and activities that require active participation on the part of the learner. The book also serves as a useful companion for academics and others embarking on field-trips to Ghana and neighboring countries where Twi is spoken.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 238 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Creative ability in science
ISBN : IND:30000119260218