Language patterns, Social motivations and Discourse strategies : Exploring contemporary FM Broadcast in Ghana

Sika Ahadzie

ISBN 10: 3844311769 / ISBN 13: 9783844311761

Editore: LAP LAMBERT Academic Publishing, 2011

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nach der Bestellung gedruckt Neuware - Printed after ordering - 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 and Conversational Analysis as the theoretical underpinnings of the discursive strategies of language use. The work captures both ingenuity in language use and the mishandling of language on radio. It reveals linguistic patterns and innovation in Ghana, advances existing approaches to discourse analysis and even challenges some conventional definitions and models of codeswitching. Even though it is a pioneering exploratory work on language use in contemporary interactive radio in Ghana, it serves as an important source of information on the relationship between the structure, function and context of language on radio for readers across the globe. Codice articolo 9783844311761

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Titolo: Language patterns, Social motivations and ...

Casa editrice: LAP LAMBERT Academic Publishing

Data di pubblicazione: 2011

Legatura: Taschenbuch

Condizione: Neu

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Riassunto:

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 and Conversational Analysis as the theoretical underpinnings of the discursive strategies of language use. The work captures both ingenuity in language use and the mishandling of language on radio. It reveals linguistic patterns and innovation in Ghana, advances existing approaches to discourse analysis and even challenges some conventional definitions and models of codeswitching. Even though it is a pioneering exploratory work on language use in contemporary interactive radio in Ghana, it serves as an important source of information on the relationship between the structure, function and context of language on radio for readers across the globe.

L'autore:

Sika Ahadzie obtained her Ph.D from the University of Birmingham, United Kingdom; exploring technological change and the hybridization of language among media practitioners and the general public. She researches emerging patterns in anthropological linguistics. She is currently the Acting Director of the Language Centre, University of Ghana.