Politeness and face in caribbean creoles / edited by Susanne Mühleisen, Bettina Migge.
Politeness and Face in Caribbean Creoles is the first collection to focus on socio-pragmatic issues in the Caribbean context, including the socio-cultural rules and principles underlying strategic language use. While the Caribbean has long been recognized as a rich and interesting site where cultura...
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| Contributors: | , |
| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Amsterdam ; Philadelphia :
J. Benjamins,
©2005.
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| Series: | Varieties of English around the world. General series ;
34. |
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| Local Note: | ProQuest Ebook Central |
| Summary: | Politeness and Face in Caribbean Creoles is the first collection to focus on socio-pragmatic issues in the Caribbean context, including the socio-cultural rules and principles underlying strategic language use. While the Caribbean has long been recognized as a rich and interesting site where cultural continuities meet with new "creolized" or innovative practices, questions of politeness practices, constructions of personhood, or the notion of face have so far been neglected in linguistic research on Caribbean Creoles. Drawing on linguistic politeness theory and Goffman's concept of face, eleve |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (vi, 293 pages) |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and indexes. |
| ISBN: | 9789027294166 902729416X |
| ISSN: | 0172-7362 ; |