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dc.contributor.authorThompson, RA
dc.contributor.authorAnderson, JA
dc.date.accessioned2019-05-29T13:08:18Z
dc.date.available2019-05-29T13:08:18Z
dc.date.issued2018
dc.identifier.issn2040-199X
dc.identifier.doi10.1386/jams.10.1.55_1
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10072/381232
dc.description.abstractThis study aims at showing the impoliteness strategies employed during some radio interactions. The data used here are mainly recordings of the morning shows of some private radio stations in Ghana. We establish that all the recorded utterances have some features that correspond with at least one of Culpeper’s (1996, 2005) impoliteness strategies, which are bald on record impoliteness, positive impoliteness, negative impoliteness, off-record impoliteness and withhold politeness. However, many of the participants prefer the use of the on-record strategies to the off-record strategies of impoliteness. We therefore assert that many participants in interactive radio programmes in Ghana prefer to convey messages to their addressees in a more direct and unrestrained manner, with little or no attention to their (addressees’) face needs. These participants attack the faces of more powerful people not only to demean their social status but also to demand quicker results and gain some psychological relief.
dc.description.peerreviewedYes
dc.languageEnglish
dc.language.isoeng
dc.publisherIntellect Ltd.
dc.publisher.placeUnited Kingdom
dc.relation.ispartofpagefrom55
dc.relation.ispartofpageto72
dc.relation.ispartofissue1
dc.relation.ispartofjournalJournal of African Media Studies
dc.relation.ispartofvolume10
dc.subject.fieldofresearchOther human society not elsewhere classified
dc.subject.fieldofresearchcode449999
dc.titleInteractive programmes on private radio stations in Ghana: An avenue for impoliteness
dc.typeJournal article
dc.type.descriptionC1 - Articles
dc.type.codeC - Journal Articles
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gro.rights.copyright© 2018 Intellect Ltd . This is the author-manuscript version of this paper. Reproduced in accordance with the copyright policy of the publisher. Please refer to the journal website for access to the definitive, published version.
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gro.griffith.authorThompson, Rachel


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