Research Papers/Topics in Linguistics

Verbal Politeness And Impoliteness In Medical Practitioners-Patients Communication In Swahili Language: A Case Of Zanzibar Hospitals

ABSTRACT This study has investigated the verbal politeness and impoliteness in medical practitioners-patients communication in Swahili language. The study has applied qualitative approach based on descriptive analysis. Data were collected through nonparticipantory observation. It involved preliminary survey. Politeness and impoliteness have been studied as dichotomous aspects in medical practitioners-patients communication. Politeness is referred to how face-work attempts to establish, maint...

Sedee Wode Akan Kasa Di Dwuma Enne Mmerɛ Yi Wo Radio Ne Tv So

ASEDA Mede aseda kñseñ ma Otweduampõn wõ mpñnmpñnsoõ a õde me abñduru yi, animuonyam ne nkamfoõ yñ no dea. Prõfñsa Kofi Agyekum, Prõfñsa Kwesi Yankah, Prõfñsa Akosua Anyidoho, meda mo ase pii sñ mobirii mo mogya ani, sirii pñ hwññ dwumadie yi. Akyerñkyerñfoõ nkaeñ a moboaa me; Dr. Reginald Dua, Dr. Charles Owu-Ewie, Dr. Grace Diaba, Dr. Clement Appah, Dr. Amuzu, Owura Apenteng-Sackey, Owura Asamoa, Owura Amoa, Owura Adomako, Awuraa Patience Obeng, Onyame nhyira mo ne ...

A Linguistic Analysis Of Ewe Metaphorical Expressions

ABSTRACT Until recently, the concept that governed our view about metaphor was that, it is a figure of speech in which there is comparison between two unlike entities characterised by the schematic form A is B. For this reason, we thought we can get along perfectly well without using it. Today, a new approach to the study of metaphors by the cognitive scientists and linguistists has produced new and important results. Metaphor is now defined as understanding one conceptual domain in terms of ...

Force Dynamics And Causation In Akan

ABSTRACT This study investigates the expression of force-dynamics in Akan (Talmy 2000). Two main types of causatives can be found in the language, namely non-periphrastic causatives (lexical causatives and cause-effect SVCs) and periphrastic causatives (analytic causatives). The study examines the syntactic properties of causatives and shows that while lexical causatives and cause-effect SVCs involve a monoclausal structure, the analytic causative displays a complex (bi-clausal) structure. I...


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