Offers and offer refusals a postcolonial pragmatics perspective on world Englishes

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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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Anchimbe, Eric A.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Amsterdam ; Philadelphia John Benjamins Publishing Company, [2018]
Series:Pragmatics & beyond new series (P&bns), volume 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.
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / General
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Table of Contents:
  • 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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