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Postcolonial pragmatics

 | Indian Institute of Technology Delhi
Published online: 6 April 2022
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Article outline
  • 1.Introduction: Confronting the contemporary
  • 2.Pragmatics and postcolonialism: Background
  • 3.Pragmatics
    • 3.1Definitions and descriptions
    • 3.2The archive: Ideology, emancipation and postcolonial interactions
  • 4.Postcolonialism
    • 4.1Description and keywords
    • 4.2Postcolonialism: Towards a theoretical framing
    • 4.3Postcolonialism: The hegemony of English as a language of academic power
    • 4.4Conceptual alliances: Pragmatics tools applied to postcolonial contexts
  • 5.Conclusion: Towards a post-pragmatics?
  • Acknowledgements
  • Notes
  • References
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