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Non-Kinship Address Terms in Akan: A Sociolinguistic Study of Language Use in Ghana
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Afful, Joseph Benjamin Archibald – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2006
Following the study of Gilman and Ford on address terms, an increasing number of studies have been conducted in several sociocultural settings. In line with this trend, the present study attempts to describe and explain address terms among the Akans of postcolonial Ghana. Using observation as the main research tool corroborated by interview and…
Descriptors: Language Patterns, Observation, Foreign Countries, Interpersonal Communication