Chapter 1
Introduction
Offers, refusals in postcolonial multilingual societies: New research directions
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
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