What is it about?
Persuasive Akan judicial discourse strategies include the use of apologetic expressions or mitigators, deferential modes of reference, indirectly authored speech forms (such as tales, riddles, proverbs, etc.), negotiation, compliments, and acknowledgment of impositions. The persuasive strategies help legal professionals to achieve such interactional ends as dealing with the face-wants that arise in the judicial process, persuade a chief and his elders to pardon an appellant, etc.
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Why is it important?
Brings an African perspective on issues relating to persuasion and politeness in Akan in Akan jurisprudence.
Perspectives
Studying arbitrators and appeals chiefs' interact in authentic judicial domains was both rewarding professionally and personally.
Distinguished Professor Samuel Gyasi Obeng
Indiana University System
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This page is a summary of: Communication strategies: Persuasion and politeness in Akan judicial discourse, Text - Interdisciplinary Journal for the Study of Discourse, January 1997, De Gruyter,
DOI: 10.1515/text.1.1997.17.1.25.
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