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

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"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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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Anchimbe, Eric A. (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Publishing Company, [2018]
Series:Pragmatics & beyond ; new ser. 298.
Subjects:
Politeness (Linguistics)
Speech acts (Linguistics)
English language > Variation > English-speaking countries.
English language > Variation > Foreign countries.
English language > Discourse analysis.
Discourse analysis > Social aspects.
Formules de politesse.
Actes de parole.
Anglais (Langue) > Variation > Anglophonie.
Anglais (Langue) > Variation > Pays étrangers.
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / General.
Discourse analysis > Social aspects
English language > Discourse analysis
English language > Variation
English language > Variation > Foreign countries
Englisch
Höflichkeit
Sprechakt
English language > Social aspects.
Politeness.
English language > Variation > Ghana.
English language > Variation > Cameroon.
Speech acts.
English-speaking countries
Kamerun
Ghana
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 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.

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