Language Patterns, Social Motivations and Discourse Strategies - Bog af Sika Ahadzie - Paperback

Language Patterns, Social Motivations and Discourse Strategies - Sika Ahadzie

This book exposes readers to the characteristic resilience of language to changing contexts. In this book, Sika Ahadzie explores the extent to which rapid technological change has impacted the use of language in the expression of views on social and political development in Ghana. The main focus is on the opportunity created by contemporary interactive radio and the strategies employed by interactants. She employs an eclectic framework of Speech Act Theory, Gricean Pragmatics, Interactional Sociolinguistics..