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Autore |
Anchimbe Eric A. |
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Titolo |
Offers and offer refusals : a postcolonial pragmatics perspective on world Englishes / / Eric A. Anchimbe |
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Amsterdam ; ; Philadelphia : , : John Benjamins Publishing Company, , [2018] |
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©2018 |
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ISBN |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (338 pages) |
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Collana |
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Pragmatics & beyond new series (P&bns) ; ; Volume 298, , 0922-842x |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Politeness (Linguistics) |
English language - Variation - Foreign countries |
English language - Variation - English-speaking countries |
English language - Discourse analysis |
Discourse analysis - Social aspects |
Speech acts (Linguistics) |
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Lingua di pubblicazione |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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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. |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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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 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 |
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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"-- |
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