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Offers and Offer Refusals: A postcolonial pragmatics perspective on World Englishes
Eric A. Anchimbe
[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series 298] 2018
► pp. 29–62

Chapter 2
Postcolonial pragmatics

A theoretical framework for postcolonial multilingual societies

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