List of tables
Table 1.1
Overview of pragmatic research in African Postcolonial Englishes
18
Table 1.2
DCT questionnaire respondents according to country, age and gender
26
Table 3.1
Distribution of greeting preparatory act (Situation 1)
66
Table 3.2
Distribution of familiarisation preparatory act (Situation 1)
71
Table 3.3
Distribution of grounder preparatory act (Situation 1)
75
Table 3.4
Overall occurrences of head act types (Situation 1)
80
Table 3.5
Head act types and their realisation strategies (Situation 1)
81
Table 3.6
Use of insistence supportive act (Situation 1)
93
Table 3.7
Use of explication supportive act (Situation 1)
96
Table 3.8
Use of refusal acceptance supportive act (Situation 1)
99
Table 3.9
Use of postponement supportive act (Situation 1)
101
Table 3.10
Use of closing supportive act (Situation 1)
104
Table 3.11
Vertical structures of the offer-refusal communicative act (Situation 1)
106
Table 3.12
Offer utterance realisation strategies (Situation 1)
109
Table 3.13
Types of preference strategies (Situation 1)
112
Table 3.14
Types of imperative strategies (Situation 1)
116
Table 3.15
Types of execution strategies (Situation 1)
119
Table 3.16
Offer refusal utterance realisation strategies (Situation 1)
120
Table 3.17
Address forms in Situation 1
126
Table 3.18
Gender-based address forms in Situation 1
131
Table 4.1
Distribution of greeting preparatory act (Situation 2)
141
Table 4.2
Overall occurrences of head act types (Situation 2)
143
Table 4.3
Head act types and their realisation strategies (Situation 2)
145
Table 4.4
Use of insistence supportive act (Situation 2)
153
Table 4.5
Use of justification supportive act (Situation 2)
156
Table 4.6
Use of explication supportive act (Situation 2)
158
Table 4.7
Use of refusal acceptance act (Situation 2)
161
Table 4.8
Use of offer acceptance act (Situation 2)
193
Table 4.9
Vertical structures of the offer-refusal communicative act (Situation 2)
167
Table 4.10
Offer utterance realisation strategies (Situation 2)
169
Table 4.11
Types of imperative strategies (Situation 2)
172
Table 4.12
Types of preference strategies (Situation 2)
173
Table 4.13
Types of execution strategies (Situation 2)
175
Table 4.14
Offer refusal utterance realisation strategies (Situation 2)
176
Table 4.15
Address forms in Situation 2
183
Table 5.1
Distribution of greeting preparatory act (Situation 3)
198
Table 5.2
Distribution of familiarisation preparatory act (Situation 3)
200
Table 5.3
Distribution of introduction preparatory acts (Situation 3)
202
Table 5.4
Overall occurrences of head act types (Situation 3)
204
Table 5.5
Head act types and their realisation strategies (Situation 1)
205
Table 5.6
Use of insistence supportive act (Situation 3)
212
Table 5.7
Use of explication supportive act (Situation 3)
215
Table 5.8
Use of refusal acceptance supportive act (Situation 3)
217
Table 5.9
Vertical structures of the offer-refusal communicative act (Situation 3)
219
Table 5.10
Offer utterance realisation strategies (Situation 3)
222
Table 5.11
Types of imperative strategies (Situation 3)
225
Table 5.12
Types of preference strategies (Situation 3)
227
Table 5.13
Types of declarative strategies (Situation 3)
230
Table 5.14
Types of execution strategies (Situation 3)
232
Table 5.15
Offer refusal realisation strategies (Situation 3)
233
Table 5.16
Address forms in Situation 3
238
Table 7.1
Overall use of preparatory acts: Ghana and Cameroon
278
Table 7.2
Overall use of supportive acts: Ghana and Cameroon
279
Table 7.3
Overall use of address forms: Ghana and Cameroon
281