Pragmatic Perspectives on Postcolonial Discourse: Linguistics and Literature
Sobre aquest llibre
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.
Sobre l'autor
Laurenz Volkmann is Full Professor of Teaching English as a Foreign Language at Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena, Germany. He has published widely on literature, culture and media studies. His major publications are Homo oeconomicus: Studien zur Modellierung eines neuen Menschenbilds in der englischen Literatur vom Mittelalter bis zum 18. Jahrhundert (2003), The Global Village: Progress or Disaster (2007), Englische Fachdidaktik: Kultur und Sprache (2010), and Teaching English (with Nancy Grimm and Michael Meyer, 2015).
