30.471, Books: Offers and Offer Refusals: Anchimbe

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Date: Tue, 29 Jan 2019 22:11:57
From: Karin Plijnaar [karin.plijnaar at benjamins.nl]
Subject: Offers and Offer Refusals: Anchimbe

 


Title: Offers and Offer Refusals 
Subtitle: A postcolonial pragmatics perspective on World Englishes 
Series Title: Pragmatics & Beyond New Series 298  

Publication Year: 2018 
Publisher: John Benjamins
	   http://www.benjamins.com/
	

Book URL: https://benjamins.com/catalog/pbns.298 


Author: Eric A. Anchimbe

Electronic: ISBN:  9789027263285 Pages: 316 Price: AUS $ 149.00
Electronic: ISBN:  9789027263285 Pages: 316 Price: AUS $ 83.00
Electronic: ISBN:  9789027263285 Pages: 316 Price: AUS $ 99.00
Hardback: ISBN:  9789027201737 Pages: 316 Price: U.S. $ 149.00
Hardback: ISBN:  9789027201737 Pages: 316 Price: U.K. £ 83.00
Hardback: ISBN:  9789027201737 Pages: 316 Price: Europe EURO 104.94


Abstract:

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.
 



Linguistic Field(s): Discourse Analysis
                     Pragmatics
                     Sociolinguistics

Subject Language(s): English (eng)


Written In: English  (eng)

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