CONTENTS CHAPTER 1: Introduction Samuel G. Obeng and Kofi Agyekum CHAPTER 2: Parliamentary culture and language behaviour – A pragma-rhetorical study of unparliamentary language in Ghanaian parliamentary discourse Kwabena Sarfo Sarfo-Kantankah and Dora Francisca Edu-Buandoh CHAPTER 3: Compliment responses in Ga, Dangme and Ewe Rebecca Atchoi Akpanglo-Nartey, Regina Oforiwah Caesar and Evershed Kwasi Amuzu CHAPTER 4: Place naming in Akan societies – Circumstances and functional motivations Seth A. Ofori and Samuel G. Obeng CHAPTER 5: On the pragmatics of periodic updates on COVID-19 pandemic broadcast by president Nana Akuffo-Addo of Ghana William Dautey and Kofi Agyekum CHAPTER 6: On the pragmatics of interjections in Yorùbá Foluso Okebiorun CHAPTER 7: The pragmatics of Akan proverbs in the media Bright Amoah and Esther Nana Anima Wiafe-Akenten CHAPTER 8: Yoruba toponyms in Nigeria Taiwo Ehineni CHAPTER 9: African American music, Is it African enough? “Osibisaba” highlife and “folk spirituals” of Africa and Africans in the diaspora Nana Amoah-Ramey CHAPTER 10: The ‘text’ in the text – Religious intertextuality in matriculation speeches as a cultural product Nancy Boahemaa Nkansah and Dora Francisca Edu-Buandoh CHAPTER 11: Ethnopragmatics and communicative competence in Akan – Traditional and contemporary issues Kofi Agyekum CHAPTER 12: Yoruba names – Their meanings within the pragmatic theory of properhood Taiwo Ehineni CHAPTER 13: Indexicality in Yorùbá pregnancy taboos Victor T. Alabi CHAPTER 14: Negative politeness strategies in Hausa social request Abdulkadir Abubakar Zailani CHAPTER 15: Language and liberty in Akan juridical discourse – Exemplification from address and reference forms Samuel Obeng