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In:Offers and Offer Refusals: A postcolonial pragmatics perspective on World Englishes
Eric A. Anchimbe
[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series 298] 2018
► pp. 1–28

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Chapter 1
Introduction

Offers, refusals in postcolonial multilingual societies: New research directions

Published online: 15 November 2018
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https://doi.org/10.1075/pbns.298.c1
Article outline
  • 1.1Pragmatics and research on Postcolonial Englishes
  • 1.2Theoretical approaches in past research
  • 1.3Directions in past research
  • 1.4Pragmatic phenomena studied in past research
    • 1.4.1Politeness and face
    • 1.4.2Speech acts or speech events
    • 1.4.3Naming, address forms and individual and group identity
  • 1.5Aims and research questions
  • 1.6Analytical frameworks in this study
    • 1.6.1Postcolonial pragmatics
    • 1.6.2World Englishes paradigm
    • 1.6.3Theory of communicative acts
  • 1.7The data: Ghana and Cameroon
  • 1.8Outline of chapters
  • Notes
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