Publications

Publication details [#54834]

Anchimbe, Eric A. 2011. On not calling people by their names: Pragmatic undertones of sociocultural relationships in a postcolony. Journal of Pragmatics 43 (6) : 1472–1483.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

language and culture | person deixis | politeness | pragmatic implication | respect

Place, Publisher

Elsevier

Journal WWW

www.sciencedirect.com/web-editions

Annotation

This socio-pragmatic study discusses how Cameroonian name-avoidance may be part of a positive politeness strategy towards both family members and/or strangers.