Topics in West African Discourse-Pragmatics

CONTENTS

CHAPTER 1: Introduction
Samuel G. Obeng and Kofi Agyekum

CHAPTER 2: Parliamentary culture and language behaviour – A pragma-rhetorical study of unparliamentary language in Ghanaian parliamentary discourse
Kwabena Sarfo Sarfo-Kantankah and Dora Francisca Edu-Buandoh

CHAPTER 3: Compliment responses in Ga, Dangme and Ewe
Rebecca Atchoi Akpanglo-Nartey, Regina Oforiwah Caesar and Evershed Kwasi Amuzu

CHAPTER 4: Place naming in Akan societies – Circumstances and functional motivations
Seth A. Ofori and Samuel G. Obeng

CHAPTER 5: On the pragmatics of periodic updates on COVID-19 pandemic broadcast by president Nana Akuffo-Addo of Ghana
William Dautey and Kofi Agyekum

CHAPTER 6: On the pragmatics of interjections in Yorùbá
Foluso Okebiorun

CHAPTER 7: The pragmatics of Akan proverbs in the media
Bright Amoah and Esther Nana Anima Wiafe-Akenten

CHAPTER 8: Yoruba toponyms in Nigeria
Taiwo Ehineni

CHAPTER 9: African American music, Is it African enough? “Osibisaba” highlife and “folk spirituals” of Africa and Africans in the diaspora
Nana Amoah-Ramey

CHAPTER 10: The ‘text’ in the text – Religious intertextuality in matriculation speeches as a cultural product
Nancy Boahemaa Nkansah and Dora Francisca Edu-Buandoh

CHAPTER 11: Ethnopragmatics and communicative competence in Akan – Traditional and contemporary issues
Kofi Agyekum

CHAPTER 12: Yoruba names – Their meanings within the pragmatic theory of properhood
Taiwo Ehineni

CHAPTER 13: Indexicality in Yorùbá pregnancy taboos
Victor T. Alabi

CHAPTER 14: Negative politeness strategies in Hausa social request
Abdulkadir Abubakar Zailani

CHAPTER 15: Language and liberty in Akan juridical discourse – Exemplification from address and reference forms
Samuel Obeng