In sociolinguistic research on Englishes world-wide, little has been published on the pragmatics of postcolonial varieties. This interdisciplinary volume closes this research gap by providing integrative investigations of postcolonial discourses, probing the interstices between linguistic methodologies and literary text analysis. The literary texts under discussion are conceptualized as media both reflecting and creating reality, so that they provide valuable insights into postcolonial discourse phenomena.The contributions deal with the issue of how postcolonial Englishes, such as those spoken in India, Nigeria, South Africa and the Caribbean, have produced different pragmatic conventions in a complex interplay of culture-specific and global linguistic practices. They show the ways in which hybrid communicative situations based on ethnic, cultural, and linguistic diversity result in similarly hybrid social and communicative routines. The central pragmatic paradigms discussed here include im/politeness, speech act conventions, conversational maxims, deixis, humour, code-switching and -mixing, Othering, and linguistic exclusion.
Christoph Schubert & Laurenz Volkmann
Pragmatic Perspectives on Postcolonial Discourse [PDF ebook]
Linguistics and Literature
Pragmatic Perspectives on Postcolonial Discourse [PDF ebook]
Linguistics and Literature
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格式 PDF ● 网页 280 ● ISBN 9781443896856 ● 编辑 Christoph Schubert & Laurenz Volkmann ● 出版者 Cambridge Scholars Publishing ● 发布时间 2016 ● 下载 3 时 ● 货币 EUR ● ID 4913791 ● 复制保护 Adobe DRM
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