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1 online resource (338 pages) |
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Pragmatics and Beyond New Ser. ; v. 298 |
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Pragmatics and Beyond New Ser
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| Contents |
Intro; Offers and Offer Refusals; Editorial page; Title page; Copyright page; Dedication page; Table of contents; Preface; List of tables; List of figures; List of abbreviations; Chapter 1. Introduction: Offers, refusals in postcolonial multilingual societies: New research directions; 1.1 Pragmatics and research on Postcolonial Englishes; 1.2 Theoretical approaches in past research; 1.3 Directions in past research; 1.4 Pragmatic phenomena studied in past research; 1.4.1 Politeness and face; 1.4.2 Speech acts or speech events; 1.4.3 Naming, address forms and individual and group identity |
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1.5 Aims and research questions1.6 Analytical frameworks in this study; 1.6.1 Postcolonial pragmatics; 1.6.2 World Englishes paradigm; 1.6.3 Theory of communicative acts; 1.7 The data: Ghana and Cameroon; 1.8 Outline of chapters; Chapter 2. Postcolonial pragmatics: A theoretical framework for postcolonial multilingual societies; 2.1 Western pragmatics in non-Western pragmatic phenomena; 2.1.1 Interlanguage pragmatics; 2.1.2 Intercultural and cross-cultural pragmatics; 2.1.3 Historical pragmatics; 2.1.4 Variational pragmatics; 2.2 Towards a postcolonial pragmatics |
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2.2.1 Some defining premises in postcolonial pragmatics2.2.2 Analytical components relevant to postcolonial pragmatics; a. History; b. Age; c. Ethnicity; d. Kinship; e. Linguistic background: Indigenous vs. official language, etc.; f. Religion; g. Identity: Multiple identities; h. Social class or status; i. Culture: Cultural laws and expectations; j. Gender; 2.2.3 Relevance to Cameroon and Ghana; 2.3 A brief colonial history of Cameroon and Ghana; 2.3.1 Cameroon; 2.3.2 Ghana; Chapter 3. Offers, refusals and professional status |
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3.1 Communicative act structure: Preparatory, head and supportive acts3.1.1 Preparatory acts and professional status; a. Greetings; b. Familiarisation; c. Grounders; 3.1.2 Head acts (types) and professional status; a. Simple head acts: Simple offer head act = Simple refusal head act; b. Mixed head acts: Simple offer head = Complex refusal head and vice versa; c. Complex head acts: Complex offer head act = Complex refusal head act; 3.1.3 Supportive acts and professional status; a. Insistence act: Offer or offer refusal insistence; b. Explication act: Refusal questioning and refusal explication |
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C. Refusal acceptance act: Letting the offeree off the hookd. Postponement act: Offer or acceptance postponement; e. Promise act: Of acceptance; f. Alternative offer act: Offering something else; g. Closing act: On a cooperative note; 3.2 Offer utterances: Realisation strategies and pragmatic functions; 3.2.1 Preference strategy in offer utterances; a. Question offeree preference; b. Question offeree interest; c. Question offeree (future) action; d. Question offeree choice; e. Suggestory formula; 3.2.2 Imperative strategy in offer utterances; a. Offeree imperative or action |
| Summary |
"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"-- Provided by publisher |
| Notes |
B. Third-party imperative or action |
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Print version record |
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Politeness (Linguistics)
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Speech acts (Linguistics)
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English language -- Variation -- English-speaking countries
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English language -- Variation -- Foreign countries
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English language -- Discourse analysis.
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Discourse analysis -- Social aspects
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LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES -- Linguistics -- General.
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Discourse analysis -- Social aspects
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English language -- Discourse analysis
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English language -- Variation
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English language -- Variation -- Foreign countries
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Politeness (Linguistics)
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Speech acts (Linguistics)
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Englisch
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Höflichkeit
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Sprechakt
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English language -- Social aspects.
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Politeness.
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English language -- Variation -- Ghana.
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English language -- Variation -- Cameroon.
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Speech acts.
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English-speaking countries
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Kamerun
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Ghana
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9789027263285 |
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9027263280 |
