Pragmatic perspectives on postcolonial discourse :  linguistics and literature / 
edited by Christoph Schubert and Laurenz Volkmann. 
 - 1 online resource. 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references and index. 
<br/><br/> Building bridges between linguistic and literary postcolonial studies /  Invoking kinship in offers and refusals : a postcolonial pragmatics perspective /  A corpus-driven study of English as a lingua franca : variations in Sam Selvon's The lonely Londoners /  The ethnopragmatics of speech acts in postcolonial discourse : "truth" and "trickery" in a transculturated South Pacific tale /  Im/politeness in postcolonial plays : investigating speech acts, code-switching and appropriateness /  The pragmatics of postcolonial dialogue in Eldorado West One : complexity of discourse in Samuel Selvon's radio plays /  Pragmatic implications of "you"-narration for postcolonial fiction : Mohsin Hamid's How to get filthy rich in rising Asia /  The pragmatics of contained excessiveness : humour in Aravind Adiga's The white tiger Susanne Peters --  Pragmatics and regionalism in the Indian English novel /  Border crossing and negotiating historical discourse in Michael Ondaatje's novel In the skin of a lion (1987) /  Towards a postcolonial pragmatics of anglophone North American indigenous literatures : linguistic liberation of the reader as a decolonizing act /  Between sadness, sarcasm, and subversion : linguistic strategies of social representation and criticism in post-apartheid South African poems by Phaswane Mpe /  Said/not said : discursive and linguistic strategies of othering in colonial, post-colonial and post-ethnic literature /  Christoph Schubert and Laurenz Volkmann --  Eric A. Anchimbe --  Laura Centonze --  Carsten Levisen --  Christoph Schubert --  Till Kinzel --  Jarmila Mildorf --  Nandini Saha --  Matthias Merkl --  Kristina Baudemann --  Carsten Albers --  Laurenz Volkmann. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9781443896856 1443896853 
<br/><br/><label>Source: </label>9781443896856  Cambridge Scholars Publishing 
<br/><br/><label>Nat. Bib. No.: </label>GBB6G5714  bnb 
<br/><br/><label>Nat. Bib. Agency Control No.: </label>018028749  Uk 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Postcolonialism in literature.<br/>BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Literary<br/>Postcolonialism in literature.<br/>Linguistics.<br/>Sociolinguistics.<br/>Literary studies: post-colonial literature.
<br/><br/><label>Index Terms--Genre/Form: </label><br/>Electronic books.<br/>Electronic books.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>PN56.P555 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>809/.93358