Greetings or Information Exchange in Ewe Community
Keywords:
Ewe community, ethnography, greetingsAbstract
This paper looked at greetings or information exchange in Ewe Community using Dell Hymes concept of Ethnography of SPEAKING with specific interest to speech situation, speech Act, and speech Event. It has been found that the Ewes have different kinds of greetings depending on the time and the situation. It has been also found that there are various norms and rules that accompanied the various types of greetings. For instance, when a younger person is greeting the adult the younger person must bend down to show respect. In some greetings to the relationship between the two interlocutors determine whether the greeting should go into detail. Again, the situation also calls for the kind of greeting that should be employed for instance if the two people who are involved are in hurry going to some place the casual greeting is the preferred choice.
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