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Genre in world Englishes : case studies from the Caribbean
Author
Title
Genre in world Englishes : case studies from the Caribbean / Susanne Mühleisen.
ISBN
9789027211385
9027211388
9789027257628
Publication
Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Publishing Company, [2022]
Physical Description
viii, 229 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 25 cm.
Summary
"World Englishes and English in postcolonial contexts have been curiously neglected in an otherwise abundant research literature on text types and genres in English. This volume looks at the adaptation, transformation and emergence of genres in the particular cultural context of the Anglophone Caribbean. A comprehensive framework for the investigation of text production in postcolonial and global English communities is followed by empirically based case studies on specific text formats such as recipes, death notices and obituaries, letters to the editor, newspaper advice columns, radio phone-in programmes, online forums and the music genre calypso. Influences from oral versus literate culture as well as status and function of English versus Creole are considered by highlighting written, spoken and digital genres. All chapters present surveys from a historical and cross-cultural perspective before exploring specific linguistic and cultural features in the Caribbean texts. This volume will be highly relevant for researchers in World Englishes and Caribbean studies, postcolonial pragmatics, genre and media studies as well as linguistic anthropology"-- Provided by publisher.
Other formats
Online version: Muehleisen, Susanne. Genre in world Englishes Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Publishing Company, [2022]
Format
Books
Language
English
Added to Catalog
August 30, 2022
Series
Varieties of English around the world, volume G67
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Genre in world Englishes: the global and the postcolonial in oral, written and digital texts
Callaloo, stewed manicou and doubles: Caribbean culinary transformations in Trinidadian print and online recipes
Personhood, genealogy and remembrance in death notices and obituaries
Metathesiophobia, nutty professors and Patois: language debates in Letters to the Editor (LTEs) in a Jamaican newspaper
Tell me Pastor: certainty, directness and the assertion of moral norms in a Jamaican newspaper advice column
Mornin Caller: negotiating power and authority in a Trinidadian radio phone-in programme
"... allyuh know how to parteeeeeeeeeeee. lawd!": linguistic choices and membership construction in the Trinidad & Tobago Possee Livin California forum.
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Genre/Form
Case studies.
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