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Barry Hallen, The Good, The Bad and The Beautiful. Discourse about Values in Yoruba Culture. Bloomington: Indiana University Press. 2001. Pp. 219. Hb $39.95.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  21 October 2003

Kofi Agyekum
Kofi Agyekum
Affiliation:
Linguistics, University of Ghana, Box 61, Legon Accra, Ghana, [email protected]
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Extract

This book combines culture, philosophy and linguistics by examining everyday language. It concentrates on the semantic interrelations between aspects of epistemic, moral and aesthetic values of a person's life in Yoruba society. The book contains six chapters and an appendix of Yoruba-language quotations.

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Information
Language in Society , Volume 32 , Issue 3 , June 2003 , pp. 428 - 431
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© 2003 Cambridge University Press

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