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Offers and offer refusals : a postcolonial pragmatics perspective on world Englishes /

"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 contr...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Anchimbe, Eric A. (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Publishing Company, [2018]
Colección:Pragmatics & beyond ; new ser. 298.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction: offers, refusals in postcolonial multilingual societies: new research directions
  • Postcolonial pragmatics: a theoretical framework for postcolonial multilingual societies
  • 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.