Intercultural communications yearbook /

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Obeng, Samuel Gyasi
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Nova Science Publishers, [2010]
Series:Intercultural communications yearbook series.
Subjects:
Table of Contents:
  • Talking about HIV/AIDS: metaphors that shape our perception of the crisis in Tanzania (Valerie Foster and Deo Ngonyani)
  • Reading Ngugi's colonial and post-colonial representations through the Gikuyu-Mumbi creation myth (Devi Sarinjeive)
  • Terms of address in ewe: a socio-pragmatic investigation (Paul K. Agbedor)
  • Address forms among Akan families (couples) living in the United States: a quantitative study (Cecilia Sem Obeng)
  • Language in traditional Yoruba social interaction: indirectness in Ola Rotimi's The gods are not to blame (Ayo Opefeyitimi)
  • Discursive strategies at the palace of the Yaa Naa (a northern Ghanaian king) (Abdulai Salifu)
  • Discursive construction of 'combative talk': local conversational strategies of a tv host in a Japanese political debate show (Keiko Ikeda)
  • Feedback as a topic changing strategy in Japanese tv discussions (Kaoru Amino)
  • The negative role of silence in Akan communication (Kofi Agyekum)
  • The use of setswana traditional songs in teaching foreign languages and cultures (Rosaleen O.B. Nhlekisana)
  • Interconnectivity in 'other tongues': a sociolinguistic study of sms text messages in Yoruba (Christine Ofulue)
  • The language of mobile messages: is it a new variety of English? a linguistic analysis of mobile-messages in English by Arabic native speakers (Mohammad Al-khawalda).