The pragmatics of Akan greetings

Discourse Studies

Volumn 10, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 493-516

  Agyekum, Kofi ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GHANA   (Ghana)

Author keywords

Ethnography; Greetings; Linguistic anthropology; Politeness; Speech acts

Indexed keywords

EID: 47949128155     PISSN: 14614456     EISSN: 14617080     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1461445608091884     Document Type: Article

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