Pragmatics of African varieties of English / edited by István Kecskés [and five others].

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Kecskés, István, editor.

Series:

Mouton series in pragmatics ; v. 33.

Mouton series in pragmatics, 1864-6409 ; volume 33

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

English language--Africa.

English language.

Pragmatics.

pragmatics.

Physical Description:

1 online resource : illustrations.

Place of Publication:

Berlin : De Gruyter Mouton, [2025]

Summary:

"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: The Lexicon, Formulaic Language, Speech Acts and Pragmatic Markers. 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"-- De Gtuyter Brill

Contents:

The meanings of “madam” in Kenyan English usage / Zipporah Kwamboka Otiso

Context and recontextualisation of selected isomorphic lexical choices : An intercultural approach / Victoria O. Faleke

The pragmatics of Nigerian English usages in selected magistrate court sessions / Abiola S. Kalejaiye, Barrister Buduka Isaac Oyagiri, Sunday O. Joseph, and Okata Gift Ngozi

Communicating political ideologies through health-related messages / William Dautey

Adapting and creating English idioms and other fixed expressions in the Kenyan sociocultural context / Alfred Buregeya

The pragmatics of proverbs in Nigerian English : A case study of Abimbola Adelakun’s Under the Brown Rusted Roofs / Simeon Ajiboye

Putting bad English to good use : Towards a humour variety of Nigerian English / Ibukun Filani and Josef Schmied

Proverbs in Nigerian English : A postcolonial corpus pragmatic approach / Samuel Alaba Akinwotu and Foluke Olayinka Unuabonah

No shame in shame : Analysis of a South African English pragmatic marker / Ana Gauché and Kate Huddlestone

Indexes and orientations of pragmatic inexactitudes in Nigerian hospital communication / Akin Odebunmi and Tomere Dubamo

A token of the pragmatic simplification of English : Nàa in Cameroonian colloquial English and beyond / Blasius Achiri-Taboh

Power, role and identity in Ghanaian courtrooms : What the discourse-pragmatic marker Oh unveils / Akua Campbell and Samuel Gyasi Obeng

English pragmatic markers in Nigerian journalists’ Boko Haram terrorism reports / Titilope Oluwaseun Oriola

General extenders in African Englishes : A corpus-based study / Folajimi Oyebola, Foluke Olayinka Unuabonah, and Florence Oluwaseyi Daniel.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Online resource; title from PDF title page (De Gruyter Brill, viewed October 14, 2025).

Other Format:

Print version: Pragmatics of African varieties of English

ISBN:

9783111568898

311156889X

9783111568720

3111568725

OCLC:

1517988794

Publisher Number:

CIPO000213167

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license