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Some Problems of Inter-Communication

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 November 2008

Austin J. Shelton
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Numerous writers—ethnologists, linguists, educators, and lately literary critics and African creative writers themselves—have called attention to the problems of communication either from African to European or vice versa. The problems range from purely linguistic inequivalence in literal translations to the inequivalence between words and their referents in the cultures described, and further to the manifold difficulties of educators or writers wishing to develop successful communication between themselves and their audiences.

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The Journal of Modern African Studies , Volume 2 , Issue 3 , November 1964, pp. 395 - 403
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1964

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