List of tables

Part of

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

List of tables

Table 1.1Overview of pragmatic research in African Postcolonial Englishes 18

Table 1.2DCT questionnaire respondents according to country, age and gender 26

Table 3.1Distribution of greeting preparatory act (Situation 1) 66

Table 3.2Distribution of familiarisation preparatory act (Situation 1) 71

Table 3.3Distribution of grounder preparatory act (Situation 1) 75

Table 3.4Overall occurrences of head act types (Situation 1) 80

Table 3.5Head act types and their realisation strategies (Situation 1) 81

Table 3.6Use of insistence supportive act (Situation 1) 93

Table 3.7Use of explication supportive act (Situation 1) 96

Table 3.8Use of refusal acceptance supportive act (Situation 1) 99

Table 3.9Use of postponement supportive act (Situation 1) 101

Table 3.10Use of closing supportive act (Situation 1) 104

Table 3.11Vertical structures of the offer-refusal communicative act (Situation 1) 106

Table 3.12Offer utterance realisation strategies (Situation 1) 109

Table 3.13Types of preference strategies (Situation 1) 112

Table 3.14Types of imperative strategies (Situation 1) 116

Table 3.15Types of execution strategies (Situation 1) 119

Table 3.16Offer refusal utterance realisation strategies (Situation 1) 120

Table 3.17Address forms in Situation 1 126

Table 3.18Gender-based address forms in Situation 1 131

Table 4.1Distribution of greeting preparatory act (Situation 2) 141

Table 4.2Overall occurrences of head act types (Situation 2) 143

Table 4.3Head act types and their realisation strategies (Situation 2) 145

Table 4.4Use of insistence supportive act (Situation 2) 153

Table 4.5Use of justification supportive act (Situation 2) 156

Table 4.6Use of explication supportive act (Situation 2) 158

Table 4.7Use of refusal acceptance act (Situation 2) 161

Table 4.8Use of offer acceptance act (Situation 2) 193

Table 4.9Vertical structures of the offer-refusal communicative act (Situation 2) 167

Table 4.10Offer utterance realisation strategies (Situation 2) 169

Table 4.11Types of imperative strategies (Situation 2) 172

Table 4.12Types of preference strategies (Situation 2) 173

Table 4.13Types of execution strategies (Situation 2) 175

Table 4.14Offer refusal utterance realisation strategies (Situation 2) 176

Table 4.15Address forms in Situation 2 183

Table 5.1Distribution of greeting preparatory act (Situation 3) 198

Table 5.2Distribution of familiarisation preparatory act (Situation 3) 200

Table 5.3Distribution of introduction preparatory acts (Situation 3) 202

Table 5.4Overall occurrences of head act types (Situation 3) 204

Table 5.5Head act types and their realisation strategies (Situation 1) 205

Table 5.6Use of insistence supportive act (Situation 3) 212

Table 5.7Use of explication supportive act (Situation 3) 215

Table 5.8Use of refusal acceptance supportive act (Situation 3) 217

Table 5.9Vertical structures of the offer-refusal communicative act (Situation 3) 219

Table 5.10Offer utterance realisation strategies (Situation 3) 222

Table 5.11Types of imperative strategies (Situation 3) 225

Table 5.12Types of preference strategies (Situation 3) 227

Table 5.13Types of declarative strategies (Situation 3) 230

Table 5.14Types of execution strategies (Situation 3) 232

Table 5.15Offer refusal realisation strategies (Situation 3) 233

Table 5.16Address forms in Situation 3 238

Table 7.1Overall use of preparatory acts: Ghana and Cameroon 278

Table 7.2Overall use of supportive acts: Ghana and Cameroon 279

Table 7.3Overall use of address forms: Ghana and Cameroon 281