Format:
XVI, 316 Seiten
,
Illustrationen, Diagramme
ISBN:
9789027201737
Series Statement:
Pragmatics & beyond
Content:
"This study offers a pragmatic dimension to World Englishes research. It is particularly timely because pragmatics has generally been understudied in past research on World Englishes, especially postcolonial Englishes. Apart from drawing attention to the paucity of research, the book also contributes to theory formation on the emerging theoretical framework, postcolonial pragmatics, which is then applied to data from two World (postcolonial) Englishes, Ghanaian and Cameroon Englishes. The copious examples used clearly illustrate how postcolonial societies realise various pragmatic phenomena, in this case offers and offer refusals, and how these could be fruitfully explained using an analytical framework designed on the complex internal set ups of these societies. For research on social interaction in these societies to be representative, it has to take into account the complex history of their evolution, contact with other systems during colonialism, and the heritages thereof. This book does just that"--
Content:
Introduction: offers, refusals in postcolonial multilingual societies: new research directions -- Postcolonial pragmatics -- Offers, refusals and professional status -- Offers, refusals and age -- Offers, refusals and peer equality -- Postcolonial hybrid structures and social interaction -- Conclusion: on offer-refusal communicative acts: general implications for future research
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9789027263285
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Online-Ausgabe Anchimbe, Eric A., author Offers and offer refusals Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Publishing Company, [2018]
Language:
English
Subjects:
English Studies
Keywords:
Englisch
;
Sprechakt
;
Diskursanalyse
;
Pragmatik
;
Ghana
;
Englisch
;
Kamerun
;
Englisch
;
Englisch
;
Sprechakt
;
Diskursanalyse
;
Pragmatik
;
Ghana
;
Englisch
;
Kamerun
;
Englisch
Author information:
Anchimbe, Eric A.
