Pragmatics of African Varieties of English
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Pragmatics of African Varieties of English

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Pragmatics of African Varieties of English

About this book

This book is a collection of research papers that focus on the development and use of different African varieties of English from a pragmatic perspective. Although there are a number of studies on African varieties of English there is no book available that would present studies from a pragmatic perspective. This book is intended to fill this gap.

The authors focus on how the different socio-cultural backgrounds and the multilingual environment affect the oral and partly the written use of English in specific areas. They identify unique communicative features of varieties of English and their relationship to one another. The chapters also explore the interplay of the socio-political factors with the linguistic and interactional factors.

The book consists of four sections: The Lexicon, Formulaic Language, Speech Acts and Pragmatic Markers. The studies included in each section represent a variety of views, different approaches and several different theories. They demonstrate the depth of African linguistics in general and pragmatics research in Africa in particular.

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Yes, you can access Pragmatics of African Varieties of English by Istvan Kecskes,Alfred Buregeya,Akin Odebunmi,Foluke Olayinka Unuabonah,Kofi Agyekum,Hanh Dinh in PDF and/or ePUB format, as well as other popular books in Languages & Linguistics & Languages. We have over one million books available in our catalogue for you to explore.

Table of contents

  1. Contents
  2. Acknowledgement
  3. Introduction
  4. I The Lexicon
  5. Chapter 1 The Meanings of “Madam” in Kenyan English Usage
  6. Chapter 2 Context and Recontextualisation of Selected Isomorphic Lexical Choices: An Intercultural Approach
  7. Chapter 3 The Pragmatics of Nigerian English Usages in Selected Magistrate Court Sessions
  8. Chapter 4 Communicating Political Ideologies Through Health-Related Messages
  9. II Formulaic Language
  10. Adapting and Creating English Idioms and Other Fixed Expressions in the Kenyan Sociocultural Context
  11. Chapter 6 The Pragmatics of Proverbs in Nigerian English: A Case Study of Abimbola Adelakun’s Under the Brown Rusted Roofs
  12. Chapter 7 Putting Bad English to Good Use: Towards a Humour Variety of Nigerian English
  13. Chapter 8 Proverbs in Nigerian English: A Postcolonial Corpus Pragmatic Approach
  14. III Speech Acts
  15. Chapter 9 Ghanaian English Characteristics in Apology Reactions
  16. Chapter 10 Greeting and Leave-Taking in Ugandan English
  17. Chapter 11 Locutions of Educated Nigerian English in Selected Instagram Blogs
  18. Chapter 12 Analysis of Four Presidential Campaign Promises in Contemporary Ghanaian Politics
  19. IV Pragmatic Markers
  20. Chapter 13 No Shame in Shame: Analysis of a South African English Pragmatic Marker
  21. Chapter 14 Indexes and Orientations of Pragmatic Inexactitudes in Nigerian Hospital Communication
  22. Chapter 15 A Token of the Pragmatic Simplification of English: NĂ a in Cameroonian Colloquial English and Beyond
  23. Chapter 16 Power, Role and Identity in Ghanaian Courtrooms: What the Discourse-Pragmatic Marker Oh Unveils
  24. Chapter 17 English Pragmatic Markers in Nigerian Journalists’ Boko Haram Terrorism Reports
  25. Chapter 18 General Extenders in African Englishes: A Corpus-Based Study
  26. Index