In:Offers and Offer Refusals: A postcolonial pragmatics perspective on World Englishes
Eric A. Anchimbe
[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series 298] 2018
► pp. 29–62
Chapter 2Postcolonial pragmatics
A theoretical framework for postcolonial multilingual societies
Published online: 15 November 2018
https://doi.org/10.1075/pbns.298.c2
https://doi.org/10.1075/pbns.298.c2
Article outline
- 2.1Western pragmatics in non-Western pragmatic phenomena
- 2.1.1Interlanguage pragmatics
- 2.1.2Intercultural and cross-cultural pragmatics
- 2.1.3Historical pragmatics
- 2.1.4Variational pragmatics
- 2.2Towards a postcolonial pragmatics
- 2.2.1Some defining premises in postcolonial pragmatics
- 2.2.2Analytical components relevant to postcolonial pragmatics
- a.History
- b.Age
- c.Ethnicity
- d.Kinship
- e.Linguistic background: Indigenous vs. official language, etc.
- f.Religion
- g.Identity: Multiple identities
- h.Social class or status
- i.Culture: Cultural laws and expectations
- j.Gender
- 2.2.3Relevance to Cameroon and Ghana
- 2.3A brief colonial history of Cameroon and Ghana
- 2.3.1Cameroon
- 2.3.2Ghana
Notes
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