Intercultural Communications Yearbook: Volume 1

Preface; Talking About HIV/AIDS: Metaphors That Shape Our Perception of the Crisis in Tanzania; Reading Ngugi's Colonial & Post-Colonial Representations Through the Gikuyu-Mumbi Creation Myth; Terms of Address in Ewe: A Socio-Pragmatic Investigation; Address Forms Among Akan Families (Couples) Living in the United States: A Quantitative Study; Language in Traditional Yoruba Social Interaction: Indirectness in Ola Rotimi's The Gods are Not to Blame; Discursive Strategies at the Palace of the Yaa Naa (A Northern Ghanaian King); Discursive Construction of "Combative Talk": Local Conversational Strategies of a TV Host in a Japanese Political Debate Show; Feedback as a Topic Changing Strategy in Japanese TV Discussions; The Negative Role of Silence in Akan Communication; The Use of Setswana Traditional Songs in Teaching Foreign Languages & Cultures; Interconnectivity in 'Other Tongues': A Sociolinguistic Study of SMS Text Messages in Yoruba; The Language of Mobile Messages: Is it a New Variety of English? A Linguistic Analysis of Mobile-Messages in English by Arabic Native Speakers; Index.