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Publication details [#30173]

Yankah, Kwesi. 1995. Speaking for the chief: Okyeame and the politics of Akan royal oratory. Indiana University. 256 pp.
Publication type
Book – monograph
Publication language
English
Language as a subject

Annotation

This volume provides a linguistic, sociolinguistic and ethnographic account of the indirect communicational strategies used by Akan political functionaries in various formal communicative situations. It also touches on language and gender by exploring the sociopolitical significance of gender in political functions.

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