Pragmatic Perspectives on Postcolonial Discourse: Linguistics and Literature

Christoph Schubert · Laurenz Volkmann

2016年6月 · Cambridge Scholars Publishing

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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.

作者简介

Christoph Schubert is Full Professor of English Linguistics at the University of Vechta, Germany. His main publications are a monograph on the complex sentence in English poetry (2000), a study on the cognitive constitution of space in descriptive text types (2009), and an introduction to English text linguistics (2012). He is co-editor of a special issue of the Journal of Language and Politics entitled “Cognitive Perspectives on Political Discourse” (2014) and co-editor of the collective volume Variational Text Linguistics: Revisiting Register in English (2016). His principal research areas include discourse analysis, text linguistics, stylistics, cognitive linguistics, and pragmatics.

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).