Pragmatics of African Varieties of English

1. Auflage 2025
ISBN: 978-3-11-156775-4
Verlag: De Gruyter

Buch, Englisch, Band 33, 340 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 230 mm

Reihe: Mouton Series in Pragmatics [MSP]

This book is a collection of research papers that focus on the development and use of different African varieties of English from a pragmatic perspective. Although there are a number of studies on African varieties of English there is no book available that would present studies from a pragmatic perspective. This book is intended to fill this gap.

The authors focus on how the different socio-cultural backgrounds and the multilingual environment affect the oral and partly the written use of English in specific areas. They identify unique communicative features of varieties of English and their relationship to one another. The chapters also explore the interplay of the socio-political factors with the linguistic and interactional factors.

The book consists of four sections: , , and . The studies included in each section represent a variety of views, different approaches and several different theories. They demonstrate the depth of African linguistics in general and pragmatics research in Africa in particular.

Zielgruppe

Scholars & students of Linguistics, esp. Pragmatics and Multiling

Autoren/Hrsg.

Kecskes, Istvan

Buregeya, Alfred

Odebunmi, Akin

Unuabonah, Foluke Olayinka

Agyekum, Kofi

Dinh, Hanh

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Fremdsprachenerwerb und -didaktik
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Dialektologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Soziolinguistik
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Semantik & Pragmatik
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Sprachwissenschaften

Über Autor(innen)

Alfred Buregeya, Professor (University of Nairobi, Kenya)

Akin Odebunmi, Professor (University of Ibadan, Nigeria)

Foluke Unuabonah, Associate Professor (Redeemer University, Nigeria)

Kofi Agyekum, Professor (University of Ghana)

Hanh Dinh, Lecturer (Vermont State University, USA)

Istvan Kecskes, Distinguished Professor (State University of New York, Albany, USA)

Alfred Buregeya, Professor (University of Nairobi, Kenya)

Akin Odebunmi, Professor (University of Ibadan, Nigeria)

Foluke Unuabonah, Associate Professor (Redeemer University, Nigeria)

Kofi Agyekum, Professor (University of Ghana)

Hanh Dinh, Lecturer (Vermont State University, USA)