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Offers and offer refusals : a postcolonial pragmatics perspective on world Englishes
- Title
- Offers and offer refusals : a postcolonial pragmatics perspective on world Englishes / Eric A. Anchimbe.
- Author
- Anchimbe, Eric A.
- Publication
- Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Publishing Company, [2018]
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Details
- Description
- xvi, 316 pages; 25 cm.
- Summary
- "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 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"--
- Series Statement
- Pragmatics & beyond new series ; volume 298
- Uniform Title
- Pragmatics & beyond ; new ser., 298.
- Subjects
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
- 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.
- Call Number
- JFE 19-11311
- ISBN
- 9789027201737
- 9027201730
- 9789027263285 (canceled/invalid)
- LCCN
- 2018034766
- OCLC
- 1044824083
- Author
- Anchimbe, Eric A., author.
- Title
- Offers and offer refusals : a postcolonial pragmatics perspective on world Englishes / Eric A. Anchimbe.
- Publisher
- Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Publishing Company, [2018]
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Series
- Pragmatics & beyond new series ; volume 298Pragmatics & beyond ; new ser., 298.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
- Other Form:
- Online version: Anchimbe, Eric A., author. Offers and offer refusals Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Publishing Company, [2018] 9789027263285 (DLC) 2018047711
- Research Call Number
- JFE 19-11311