Pragmatic Perspectives On Postcolonial Discourse

Author : Christoph Schubert,Laurenz Volkmann
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2016-06-22
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781443896856

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Pragmatic Perspectives on Postcolonial Discourse by Christoph Schubert,Laurenz Volkmann Pdf

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.

Author : Eric A. Anchimbe
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2018-11-15
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027263285

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Offers and Offer Refusals by Eric A. Anchimbe Pdf

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.

Author : Carsten Levisen
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2024-04-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9783111338002

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Postcolonial Semantics by Carsten Levisen Pdf

Author : Bettina Kluge,María Irene Moyna
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
Page : 455 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2019-11-15
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027262097

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It’s not all about you by Bettina Kluge,María Irene Moyna Pdf

The twenty-first century has seen a surge in cross-linguistic research on forms of address from increasingly diverse and complementary perspectives. The present edited collection is the inaugural volume of Topics in Address Research, a series that aims to reflect that growing interest. The volume includes an overview, followed by seventeen chapters organized in five sections covering new methodological and theoretical approaches, variation and change, address in digital and audiovisual media, nominal address, and self- and third-person reference. This collection includes work on Cameroonian French, Czech, Dutch, English (from the US, UK, Australia, and Canada), Finnish, Italian, Mongolian, Palenquero Creole, Portuguese, Slovak, and Spanish (in its Peninsular and American varieties). By presenting the work in English, the book offers a bridge among researchers in different language families. It will be of interest to pragmatists, sociolinguists, typologists, and anyone focused on the emergence and evolution of this central aspect of verbal communication.

Author : Francis Barker,Peter Hulme,Margeret Iverson
Publisher : Manchester University Press
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : History
ISBN : 0719048761

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Colonial Discourse/ Postcolonial Theory by Francis Barker,Peter Hulme,Margeret Iverson Pdf

This book on post-colonial theory has a wide geographic range and a breadth of historical perspectives. Central to the book is a critique of the very idea of the 'postcolonial' itself.

Author : Carsten Levisen,Sophia Waters
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
Page : 261 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2017-10-15
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027265470

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Cultural Keywords in Discourse by Carsten Levisen,Sophia Waters Pdf

Cultural keywords are words around which whole discourses are organised. They are culturally revealing, difficult to translate and semantically diverse. They capture how speakers have paid attention to the worlds they live in and embody socially recognised ways of thinking and feeling. The book contributes to a global turn in cultural keyword studies by exploring keywords from discourse communities in Australia, Brazil, Hong Kong, Japan, Melanesia, Mexico and Scandinavia. Providing new case studies, the volume showcases the diversity of ways in which cultural logics form and shape discourse. The Natural Semantic Metalanguage (NSM) approach is used as a unifying framework for the studies. This approach offers an attractive methodology for doing explorative discourse analysis on emic and culturally-sensitive grounds. Cultural Keywords in Discourse will be of interest to researchers and students of semantics, pragmatics, cultural discourse studies, linguistic ethnography and intercultural communication.

Author : Christian Hoffmann,Wolfram Bublitz
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 737 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2017-09-11
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783110431070

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Pragmatics of Social Media by Christian Hoffmann,Wolfram Bublitz Pdf

This handbook provides a comprehensive overview of the pragmatics of social media, i.e. of digitally mediated and Internet-based platforms which are interactively used to share and edit self- and other-generated textual and audio-visual messages. Its five parts offer state-of-the-art reviews and critical evaluations in the light of on-going developments: Part I The Nature of Social Media sets up the conceptual groundwork as it explores key concept such as social media, participation, privacy/publicness. Part II Social Media Platforms focuses on the pragmatics of single platforms such as YouTube, Facebook. Part III Social Media and Discourse covers the micro-and macro-level organization of social media discourse, while Part IV Social Media and Identity reveals the multifarious ways in which users collectively (re-)construct aspects of their identities. Part V Social Media and Functions/Speech Acts surveys pragmatic studies on speech act functions such as disagreeing, complimenting, requesting. Each contribution provides a state-of-the-art review together with a critical evaluation of the existing research.

Author : Christian Hoffmann,Monika Kirner-Ludwig
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2020-05-14
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781350042872

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Telecinematic Stylistics by Christian Hoffmann,Monika Kirner-Ludwig Pdf

Over the last two decades, the study of discourse in film and television has become one of the most promising research avenues in stylistics and pragmatics due to the dazzling variety of source material and the huge pragmatic range within it. Meanwhile, with the advent of streaming and the box set, film and television themselves are becoming separated by an increasingly blurred line. This volume closes a long-standing gap in stylistics research, bringing together a book-level pragmastylistic showcase. It presents current developments from the field from two complementary perspectives, looking stylistically at the discourse in film and the discourse of and around film. This latter phrase comes to mean the approaches which try to account for the pragmatic effects induced by cinematography. This might be the camera work or the lighting, or the mise en scène or montage. The volume takes a multimodal approach, looking at word, movement and gesture, in keeping with modern stylistics. The volume shows how pragmatic themes and methods are adapted and applied to films, including speech acts, (im)politeness, implicature and context. In this way, it provides systematic insights into how meanings are displayed, enhanced, suppressed and negotiated in both film and televisual arts.

Author : Jan Renkema,Christoph Schubert
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
Page : 471 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2018-11-15
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027263100

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Introduction to Discourse Studies by Jan Renkema,Christoph Schubert Pdf

This new edition of Introduction to Discourse Studies (IDS) is a thoroughly revised and updated version of this successful textbook, which has been published in four languages and has become a must-read for anyone interested in the analysis of texts and discourses. Supported by an international advisory board of 14 leading experts, it deals with all main subdomains in discourse studies, from pragmatics to cognitive linguistics, from critical discourse analysis to stylistics, and many more. The book approaches major issues in this field from the Anglo-American and European as well as the Asian traditions. It provides an ‘academic toolkit’ for future courses on discourse studies and serves as a stepping stone to the independent study of professional literature. The chapters are subdivided in modular sections that can be studied separately. The pedagogical objectives are further supported by over 500 index entries covering frequently used concepts that are accurately defined with examples throughout the text; more than 150 test-yourself questions, all elaborately answered, which are ideal for self-study; nearly 100 assignments that provide ample material for lecturers to focus on specific topics in their courses. Jan Renkema is Emeritus Professor of Discourse Quality at the Department of Communication and Information Sciences at Tilburg University, The Netherlands. He is also editor of Discourse, of Course (2009) and author of The Texture of Discourse (2009). In 2009, a Chinese edition of Introduction to Discourse Studies was published by Shanghai Foreign Language Education Press. Christoph Schubert is Full Professor of English Linguistics at Vechta University, Germany. He is author of an Introduction to English text linguistics (2nd ed. 2012) and co-editor of Pragmatic Perspectives on Postcolonial Discourse (2016) and Variational Text Linguistics (2016).

Author : Jan-Ola Östman,Jef Verschueren
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2022-04-15
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027210906

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Handbook of Pragmatics by Jan-Ola Östman,Jef Verschueren Pdf

This encyclopaedia of one of the major fields of language studies is a continuously updated source of state-of-the-art information for anyone interested in language use. The IPrA Handbook of Pragmatics provides easy access – for scholars with widely divergent backgrounds but with convergent interests in the use and functioning of language – to the different topics, traditions and methods which together make up the field of pragmatics, broadly conceived as the cognitive, social and cultural study of language and communication, i.e. the science of language use. The Handbook of Pragmatics is a unique reference work for researchers, which has been expanded and updated continuously with annual installments since 1995. Also available as Online Resource: https://benjamins.com/online/hop

Author : Jef Verschueren,Jan-Ola Östman
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
Page : 1906 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2022-08-15
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027257680

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Handbook of Pragmatics by Jef Verschueren,Jan-Ola Östman Pdf

The Manual section of the Handbook of Pragmatics, produced under the auspices of the International Pragmatics Association (IPrA), is a collection of articles describing traditions, methods, and notational systems relevant to the field of linguistic pragmatics; the main body of the Handbook contains all topical articles. The first edition of the Manual was published in 1995. This second edition includes a large number of new traditions and methods articles from the 24 annual installments of the Handbook that have been published so far. It also includes revised versions of some of the entries in the first edition. In addition, a cumulative index provides cross-references to related topical entries in the annual installments of the Handbook and the Handbook of Pragmatics Online (at https://benjamins.com/online/hop/), which continues to be updated and expanded. This second edition of the Manual is intended to facilitate access to the most comprehensive resource available today for any scholar interested in pragmatics as defined by the International Pragmatics Association: “the science of language use, in its widest interdisciplinary sense as a functional (i.e. cognitive, social, and cultural) perspective on language and communication.”

Author : Sigurd D’hondt,Pedro Gras,Mieke Vandenbroucke,Frank Brisard
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
Page : 203 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2023-10-15
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027249234

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Handbook of Pragmatics by Sigurd D’hondt,Pedro Gras,Mieke Vandenbroucke,Frank Brisard Pdf

This encyclopaedia of one of the major fields of language studies is a continuously updated source of state-of-the-art information for anyone interested in language use. The IPrA Handbook of Pragmatics provides easy access – for scholars with widely divergent backgrounds but with convergent interests in the use and functioning of language – to the different topics, traditions and methods which together make up the field of pragmatics, broadly conceived as the cognitive, social and cultural study of language and communication, i.e. the science of language use. The Handbook of Pragmatics is a unique reference work for researchers, which has been expanded and updated continuously with annual installments since 1995. Also available as Online Resource: https://benjamins.com/online/hop

Author : Frank Brisard,Sigurd D’hondt,Pedro Gras,Mieke Vandenbroucke
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2022-11-15
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027254931

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Handbook of Pragmatics by Frank Brisard,Sigurd D’hondt,Pedro Gras,Mieke Vandenbroucke Pdf

This encyclopaedia of one of the major fields of language studies is a continuously updated source of state-of-the-art information for anyone interested in language use. The IPrA Handbook of Pragmatics provides easy access – for scholars with widely divergent backgrounds but with convergent interests in the use and functioning of language – to the different topics, traditions and methods which together make up the field of pragmatics, broadly conceived as the cognitive, social and cultural study of language and communication, i.e. the science of language use. The Handbook of Pragmatics is a unique reference work for researchers, which has been expanded and updated continuously with annual installments since 1995. Also available as Online Resource: https://benjamins.com/online/hop

Author : Anne Barron,Yueguo Gu,Gerard Steen
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 580 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2017-01-20
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781317362579

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The Routledge Handbook of Pragmatics by Anne Barron,Yueguo Gu,Gerard Steen Pdf

The Routledge Handbook of Pragmatics provides a state-of-the-art overview of the wide breadth of research in pragmatics. An introductory section outlines a brief history, the main issues and key approaches and perspectives in the field, followed by a thought-provoking introductory chapter on interdisciplinarity by Jacob L. Mey. A further thirty-eight chapters cover both traditional and newer areas of pragmatic research, divided into four sections: Methods and modalities Established fields Pragmatics across disciplines Applications of pragmatic research in today’s world. With accessible, refreshing descriptions and discussions, and with a look towards future directions, this Handbook is an essential resource for advanced undergraduates, postgraduates and researchers in pragmatics within English language and linguistics and communication studies.

Author : Ulrike Schneider,Matthias Eitelmann
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2020-10-15
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781350115521

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Linguistic Inquiries into Donald Trump’s Language by Ulrike Schneider,Matthias Eitelmann Pdf

From an abundance of intensifiers to frequent repetition and parallelisms, Donald Trump's idiolect is highly distinctive from that of other politicians and previous Presidents of the United States. Combining quantitative and qualitative analyses, this book identifies the characteristic features of Trump's language and argues that his speech style, often sensationalized by the media, differs from the usual political rhetoric on more levels than is immediately apparent. Chapters examine Trump's tweets, inaugural address, political speeches, interviews, and presidential debates, revealing populist language traits that establish his idiolect as a direct reflection of changing social and political norms. The authors scrutinize Trump's conspicuous use of nicknames, the definite article, and conceptual metaphors as strategies of othering and antagonising his opponents. They further shed light on Trump's fake news agenda and his mutation of the conventional political apology which are strategically implemented for a political purpose. Drawing on methods from corpus linguistics, conversation analysis, and critical discourse analysis, this book provides a multifaceted investigation of Trump's language use and addresses essential questions about Trump as a political phenomenon.