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Ruth Finnegan, The oral and beyond: Doing things with words in Africa. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2007. Pp. 258. Hb US $63, Pb $25.00.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 April 2009

Kofi Agyekum
Kofi Agyekum*
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Department of Linguistics, University of Ghana, Box 61, Legon Accra, kofiagyekum1@vahoo.com
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Language in Society , Volume 38 , Issue 2 , April 2009 , pp. 259 - 262
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