Lumela/Lumela: A Socio-Pragmatic Analysis of Sesotho Greetings
This paper is a study of a very significant aspect of day-to-day interactional discourse of the Basotho sociolinguistic community of Southern Africa: the phenomenon of greeting. The study examines the types and structural organization of Sesotho greeting sequence and the sociolinguistic factors tha...
Main Author: | Dele Femi Akindele |
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Nordic Africa Research Network
2007-03-01
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Series: | Nordic Journal of African Studies |
Online Access: | https://www.njas.fi/njas/article/view/47 |
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