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| Title: | The language of Hausa greetings: the social construction of hierarchy |
| Author: | MacIntyre, J.A. |
| Year: | 1980 |
| Periodical: | Afrika und Übersee: Sprachen, Kulturen |
| Volume: | 63 |
| Issue: | 1 |
| Pages: | 39-67 |
| Language: | English |
| Geographic term: | Nigeria |
| Subjects: | Hausa greeting Hausa language |
| Abstract: | 'Greeting' is a means of defining and affirming both identity and rank. A description of greetings in Hausa society - how, when and why greetings, both verbal and physical, are made - indicates that both the greeter and the person greeted know their respective places in the social structure. Bibliogr., notes. |