Pragmatic perspectives on postcolonial discourse : linguistics and literature / edited by Christoph Schubert and Laurenz Volkmann.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Building bridges between linguistic and literary postcolonial studies / Christoph Schubert and Laurenz Volkmann -- Invoking kinship in offers and refusals : a postcolonial pragmatics perspective / Eric A. Anchimbe -- A corpus-driven study of English as a lingua franca : variations in Sam Selvon's The lonely Londoners / Laura Centonze -- The ethnopragmatics of speech acts in postcolonial discourse : "truth" and "trickery" in a transculturated South Pacific tale / Carsten Levisen -- Im/politeness in postcolonial plays : investigating speech acts, code-switching and appropriateness / Christoph Schubert -- The pragmatics of postcolonial dialogue in Eldorado West One : complexity of discourse in Samuel Selvon's radio plays / Till Kinzel -- Pragmatic implications of "you"-narration for postcolonial fiction : Mohsin Hamid's How to get filthy rich in rising Asia / Jarmila Mildorf -- The pragmatics of contained excessiveness : humour in Aravind Adiga's The white tiger Susanne Peters -- Pragmatics and regionalism in the Indian English novel / Nandini Saha -- Border crossing and negotiating historical discourse in Michael Ondaatje's novel In the skin of a lion (1987) / Matthias Merkl -- Towards a postcolonial pragmatics of anglophone North American indigenous literatures : linguistic liberation of the reader as a decolonizing act / Kristina Baudemann -- Between sadness, sarcasm, and subversion : linguistic strategies of social representation and criticism in post-apartheid South African poems by Phaswane Mpe / Carsten Albers -- Said/not said : discursive and linguistic strategies of othering in colonial, post-colonial and post-ethnic literature / Laurenz Volkmann.

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