1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910466555603321

Autore

Anchimbe Eric A.

Titolo

Offers and offer refusals : a postcolonial pragmatics perspective on world Englishes / / Eric A. Anchimbe

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Amsterdam ; ; Philadelphia : , : John Benjamins Publishing Company, , [2018]

©2018

ISBN

90-272-6328-0

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (338 pages)

Collana

Pragmatics & beyond new series (P&bns) ; ; Volume 298, , 0922-842x

Disciplina

420.1/45

Soggetti

Politeness (Linguistics)

English language - Variation - Foreign countries

English language - Variation - English-speaking countries

English language - Discourse analysis

Discourse analysis - Social aspects

Speech acts (Linguistics)

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

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.



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910462538903321

Titolo

Traversing tradition : celebrating dance in India / / editors, Urmimala Sarkar Munsi, Stephanie Burridge

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New Delhi [India] : , : Routledge, , 2011

ISBN

1-136-70379-9

0-203-81396-0

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (344 p.)

Collana

Celebrating dance in Asia and the Pacific ; ; 2

Altri autori (Persone)

BurridgeStephanie

MunsiUrmimala Sarkar

Disciplina

792.80954

Soggetti

Dance - India

Folk dancing - India

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

3. Questions for the Modern Dance Teacher: Child-Parent Responses to Modern Dance Education: Ranjita Karlekar4. Writing out Otherness: Dancing Asian-Indian: Uttara Asha Coorlawala; 5. Why I Am Committed to a Contemporary South Asian Aesthetic: Arguments about the Value of 'Difference' from the Perspective of Practice: Ananya Chatterjea; 6. Reading Dance, Performing Research: Meaning, Interpretation, Context, and Re-contextualization in Dance Performance and Research: Shrinkhla Sahai; 7. Imag(in)ing the Nation: Uday Shankar's Kalpana: Urmimala Sarkar Munsi

8. In Dialogue with Histories: The Dancer and the Actress: Bishnupriya Dutt9. The Beauty Myth and Beyond: Looking at the Bollywood 'Item Number': Priyanka Basu; 10. The Altered Space: Community Dances from Everyday to the Proscenium: Debanjali Biswas and Anirban Ghosh; 11. Patronage, Politics of Culture and the Dancing Body of the Other: A North-east Indian Experience: Lokendra Arambam; 12. Empowering through Dance Movement Therapy: Sohini Chakraborty

Sommario/riassunto

Dance occupies a prestigious place in Indian performing arts, yet it curiously, to a large extent, has remained outside the arena of academic discourse. This book documents and celebrates the



emergence of contemporary dance practice in India. Incorporating a multidisciplinary approach, it includes contributions from scholars, writers and commentators as well as short essays and interviews with Indian artists and performers; the latter add personal perspectives and insights to the broad themes discussed.Young Indian dance artists are courageously charting out new trajectories i