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1 online resource (vi, 293 pages). |
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polychrome |
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text file |
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Varieties of English around the world. General series,
0172-7362 ;
34
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Varieties of English around the world. General series ; 34.
0172-7362
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and indexes. |
| Contents |
Use of "bad" language as a politeness strategy in a Panamanian Creole village / Peter Snow -- Ritualized insults and the African diaspora: sounding in African American vernacular English and wording in Nigerian Pidgin / Nicholas Faraclas, Lourdes Gonzalez, Migdalia Medina, Wendell Villanueva Reyes -- Rude sounds: Kiss Teeth and negotiation of the public sphere / Esther Figueroa -- Faiya-bon: the socio-pragmatics of homophobia in Jamaican (Dancehall) culture / Joseph R. Farquharson -- Greeting and social change / Bettina Migge -- Advice in an Indo-Guyanese village and the interactional organization of uncertainty / Jack Sidnell -- Meaningful routines: meaning-making and the face value of Barbadian greetings / Janina Fenigsen -- Forms of address in English-lexicon Creoles: the presentation of selves and others in the Caribbean context / Susanne Muhleisen -- "May I have the bilna?": the development of face-saving in young Trinidadian children / Valerie Youssef -- Learning respect in Guadeloupe: greetings and politeness rituals / Alex Louise Tessonneau. |
| Summary |
Politeness and Face in Caribbean Creoles is the first collection to focus on socio-pragmatic issues in the Caribbean context, including the socio-cultural rules and principles underlying strategic language use. While the Caribbean has long been recognized as a rich and interesting site where cultural continuities meet with new "creolized" or innovative practices, questions of politeness practices, constructions of personhood, or the notion of face have so far been neglected in linguistic research on Caribbean Creoles. Drawing on linguistic politeness theory and Goffman's concept of face, eleve. |
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Use copy Restrictions unspecified MiAaHDL |
| Reproduction |
Electronic reproduction. [S.l.] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010. MiAaHDL |
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Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
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digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve MiAaHDL |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Creole dialects -- Caribbean Area.
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Creole dialects. |
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Caribbean Area. |
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Politeness (Linguistics) -- Caribbean Area.
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Politeness (Linguistics) |
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Sociolinguistics -- Caribbean Area.
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Sociolinguistics. |
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Electronic books.
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Muehleisen, Susanne.
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Migge, Bettina.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Politeness and face in caribbean creoles. Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : J. Benjamins, ©2005 902724894X 9789027248947 (DLC) 2005049338 (OCoLC)61109559 |
| ISBN |
9789027294166 (electronic book) |
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902729416X (electronic book) |
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902724894X |
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9789027248947 |
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