Politeness and face in caribbean creoles /

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Imprint:Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : J. Benjamins, ©2005.
Description:1 online resource (vi, 293 pages)
Language:English
Series:Varieties of English around the world. General series, 0172-7362 ; 34
Varieties of English around the world. General series ; 34.
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Format: E-Resource Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11173555
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Other authors / contributors:Muehleisen, Susanne.
Migge, Bettina.
ISBN:9789027294166
902729416X
902724894X
9789027248947
Notes:Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
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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.
Other form:Print version: Politeness and face in caribbean creoles. Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : J. Benjamins, ©2005 902724894X 9789027248947