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TEXT Volume 17: 1 (1997) Mouton de Gruyter * Berlin * New York Contents Clare Avery and Charles Antaki ... Conversational devices in stories turning on appearance versus reality Samuel Gyasi Obeng ............... Communication strategies: Persuasion and politeness in Akan judicial discourse Maria Elena Placencia ............ Opening up closings - the Ecuadorian way Ron Scollon and Suzie Scollon .... Point of view and citation: Fourteen Chinese and English versions of the `same' news story Sonia Zyngier and Maria Lucia Seidl De Moura ....... Pragmatic aspects of spontaneous electronic communication in a school setting _______________________________________________________________________ Mouton de Gruyter Walter de Gruyter, Inc. Postfach 30 34 21 200 Saw Mill River Road D-10728 Berlin Hawthorne, NY 10532 Germany USA Fax: +49 (0)30 26005-351 Fax: +1 914 747-1326 email: 100064.2307Mail to author|Respond to list|Read more issues|LINGUIST home page|Top of issuecompuserve.com Publications by de Gruyter can also be ordered via World Wide Web: http://www.deGruyter.de