Intercultural communications yearbook.
By: [edited by] Samuel Gyasi Obeng.
Contributors: Obeng, Samuel Gyasi.
Publisher: Nova Science Publishers
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Hauppauge, N.Y
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9781608761661
Subjects: Intercultural communication
Notes: Includes index.
Table of contents: title: Talking about HIV/AIDS: metaphors that shape our perception of the crisis in Tanzania (Valerie Foster and Deo Ngonyani); title: Reading Ngugi's colonial and post-colonial representations through the Gikuyu-Mumbi creation myth (Devi Sarinjeive); title: Terms of address in ewe: a socio-pragmatic investigation (Paul K. Agbedor); title: Address forms among Akan families (couples) living in the United States: a quantitative study (Cecilia Sem Obeng); title: Language in traditional Yoruba social interaction: indirectness in Ola Rotimi's The gods are not to blame (Ayo Opefeyitimi); title: Discursive strategies at the palace of the Yaa Naa (a northern Ghanaian king) (Abdulai Salifu); title: Discursive construction of 'combative talk': local conversational strategies of a tv host in a Japanese political debate show (Keiko Ikeda); title: Feedback as a topic changing strategy in Japanese tv discussions (Kaoru Amino); title: The negative role of silence in Akan communication (Kofi Agyekum); title: The use of setswana traditional songs in teaching foreign languages and cultures (Rosaleen O.B. Nhlekisana); title: Interconnectivity in 'other tongues': a sociolinguistic study of sms text messages in Yoruba (Christine Ofulue); title: 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).