Polite Requests in Non-Native Varieties of English: The Case of Ghanaian English

dc.contributor.author	Anderson, J.A.
dc.date.accessioned	2013-12-09T12:54:26Z
dc.date.available	2013-12-09T12:54:26Z
dc.date.issued	2013-12-09
dc.description.abstract	Although several studies have been carried out on the theory of politeness, the definition of this notion varies among linguists and according to languages and cultures: what is polite and sociallyappropriate in one context or culture may be considered impolite or excessively polite in another. Further, rules of politeness may be transferred from a first language to a second language by learners who maintain hybridized usage due to these transfers. In this paper we demonstrate the maintenance of some of these transfers in politeness strategies in Ghanaian English. This variety is influenced by the cultural norms of politeness of some Ghanaian languages whose speakers fuse native speaker conventions with English politeness conventions. We discuss herein some hybridized forms that result from cultural transfers from one Ghanaian language, Akan.	en_US
dc.identifier.uri	http://197.255.68.203/handle/123456789/4603
dc.language.iso	en	en_US
dc.title	Polite Requests in Non-Native Varieties of English: The Case of Ghanaian English	en_US
dc.type	Article	en_US

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