Attracting renewed attention by a new generation of scholars, the book presents a comprehensive ethnography of proverb communication in an African culture and achieves a significant breakthrough in proverb studies. The author critically reviews the dynamics of the proverb, one verbal genre that embodies the high point of rhetoric in traditional and contemporary Africa, and explores in rich details the proverb’s creative potential, authorship and effectiveness in crisis management. Yankah elevates the documentation of the African proverb beyond decontextualized compilations, and portrays the proverb as a dynamic communicative strategy in which form, meaning and logic are in constant flux. The study, which focuses on the Akan of Ghana, situates the proverb in the heart of real life discourse interactions and monitors its rhetorical efficacy on the basis of indigenous aesthetics. The book should be of value to folklorists, sociolinguists, anthropologists, literary scholars and students of African studies and communications.
Kwesi Yankah
The Proverb in the Context of Akan Rhetoric [EPUB ebook]
The Proverb in the Context of Akan Rhetoric [EPUB ebook]
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Ngôn ngữ Anh ● định dạng EPUB ● Trang 296 ● ISBN 9781937306038 ● Kích thước tập tin 0.6 MB ● Nhà xuất bản Diasporic Africa Press ● Được phát hành 2012 ● Có thể tải xuống 24 tháng ● Tiền tệ EUR ● TÔI 6416973 ● Sao chép bảo vệ Adobe DRM
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