Language of Persuasion and Negotiation in Ghanaian Market

Table 1.

AChecklist of linguistic and stylistic categories Leech and Short (2007)

Main Category

Sub-category

A. Lexical categories

1) general; 2) nouns; 3) adjectives; 4) verbs; 5) adverbs

B. Grammatical categories

1) sentence types; 2) sentence complexity; 3) clause types; 4) clause structure; 5) noun phrases; 6) verb phrases; 7) other phrase types; 8) word classes; 9) general

C. Figures of speech

1) grammatical and lexical schemes; 2) phonological schemes; 3) tropes

D. Cohesion and context

1) cohesion; 2) context