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Politeness and face in caribbean creoles
- Title
- Politeness and face in caribbean creoles / edited by Susanne Mühleisen, Bettina Migge.
- Publication
- Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : J. Benjamins, c2005.
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- Description
- vi, 293 p.; 24 cm.
- Series Statement
- Varieties of English around the world. 0172-7362 ; 34
- Subjects
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
- Contents
- Use of "bad" language as a politeness strategy in a Panamanian Creole village / Peter Snow -- Ritualized insults and the African diaspora: sounding in African American vernacular English and wording in Nigerian Pidgin / Nicholas Faraclas, Lourdes Gonzalez, Migdalia Medina, Wendell Villanueva Reyes -- Rude sounds: Kiss Teeth and negotiation of the public sphere / Esther Figueroa -- Faiya-bon: the socio-pragmatics of homophobia in Jamaican (Dancehall) culture / Joseph R. Farquharson -- Greeting and social change / Bettina Migge -- Advice in an Indo-Guyanese village and the interactional organization of uncertainty / Jack Sidnell -- Meaningful routines: meaning-making and the face value of Barbadian greetings / Janina Fenigsen -- Forms of address in English-lexicon Creoles: the presentation of selves and others in the Caribbean context / Susanne Muhleisen -- "May I have the bilna?": the development of face-saving in young Trinidadian children / Valerie Youssef -- Learning respect in Guadeloupe: greetings and politeness rituals / Alex Louise Tessonneau.
- Call Number
- Sc E 06-524
- ISBN
- 902724894X
- LCCN
- 2005049338
- OCLC
- 61109559
- Title
- Politeness and face in caribbean creoles / edited by Susanne Mühleisen, Bettina Migge.
- Imprint
- Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : J. Benjamins, c2005.
- Series
- Varieties of English around the world. General series, 0172-7362 ; 34
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
- Added Author
- Muehleisen, Susanne.Migge, Bettina.
- Research Call Number
- Sc E 06-524