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Publication details [#26724]

Blommaert, Jan and Katrijn Maryns. 2002. Pretextuality and pretextual gaps: On de/refining linguistic inequality. Pragmatics 12 (1) : 11–30.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

colonialism | discourse analysis | literacy | narrative

Language as a subject

English | Swahili

Place, Publisher

International Pragmatics Association

ISBN

1018-2101

Journal DOI

10.1075/prag

Annotation

This paper points out the importance of pretextualities in interaction, and examines pretextual gaps in experiential narration, in terms of access to channels, media and status varieties and control over resources.