The proverb in the context of Akan rhetoric

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This book presents a comprehensive ethnography of proverb communication in an African culture and achieves a significant breakthrough in proverb studies. The author critically reviews certain stereotypical notions about the proverb with regard to its creative potential, authorship and effectiveness in crisis management. The proverb is portrayed here as a dynamic communicative strategy, in which form, meaning and logic are in constant flux. The study, which focuses on the Akan of Ghana, situates the proverb in the heart of real life discourse interactions and monitors its rhetorical efficacy on the basis of indigenous aesthetics. The book should be of value to folklorists, sociolinguists, anthropologists, literary scholars and students of communications.