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Politics, Ethnicity and the Postcolonial Nation
This book explores the politics of ethnicity and nationalism in the Caribbean from a critical discourse-analytical perspective. Focusing on political communication in Trinidad and Tobago, it offers unique socio-political insights into one of the most complex and diverse countries of the Archipelago. Through a detailed reconstruction of Kamla Persad-Bissessar’s 2010 victorious run for office, this book offers ample empirical evidence of the multimodal discursive strategies that held the key to the success of the first woman PM candidate and her inter-ethnic coalition bid to overcome political tribalism in the country. In parallel, it explores the implications and challenges of the postcolonial Trinbagonian national project, caught between pluralism and creolization. Through its innovative, context-dependent and interdisciplinary CDS approach, this book breaks new ground in Caribbean Studies while at the same time broadening the horizons of the Euro-American tradition of Political Discourse Studies to address the complexities of global postcoloniality.
Pragmatics of Fiction
Pragmatics of Fiction provides systematic orientation in the emerging field of studying pragmatics with/in fictional data. It provides an authoritative and accessible overview of this versatile new field in its methodological and theoretical richness. Giving center stage to fictional language allows scholars to review key concepts in sociolinguistics such as genre, style, voice, stance, dialogue, participation structure or features of orality and literariness. The contributors explore language as one of the creative tools to craft story worlds and characters by drawing on concepts such as regional, social and ethnic language variation, as well as multilingualism. Themes such as emotion, taboo language or impoliteness in fiction receive attention just as the challenges of translation and dubbing, the creation of past and future languages, the impact of fictional language on language change or the fuzzy boundaries of narratives. Each contribution, written by a leading specialist, gives a succinct, representative and up-to-date overview of research questions, theories, methods and recent developments in the field.
Les canons du discours et la langue.
Pour bien communiquer, la connaissance de la grammaire d’une langue est une condition nécessaire mais pas suffisante. « Il ne suffit pas de parler, il faut parler juste » disait déjà Shakespeare. En effet, dans toute culture, la prise de parole se fait en référence à des canons implicites, soit pour s’y soumettre, soit pour les transgresser. Pendant quatre ans, une équipe d’ethnolinguistes de divers horizons a choisi d’étudier les canons supra-grammaticaux qui servent, pour une société donnée, à définir le ton juste suivant les situations d’énonciation. Les dits canons peuvent influer sur l’énonciation jusque dans ses rapports avec les exigences de la grammaire. Tous les auteurs ont abordé le canon comme une construction culturelle et dynamique, en constante évolution, reflétant des rapports de domination à un moment donné et impliquant une évaluation du discours comme étant plus ou moins proche de l’idéal. La question se pose toutefois de l’évaluation de la canonicité par les membres d’un groupe. En effet, elle peut être asymétrique, selon les compétences des participants, et peut rester uniquement implicite.
Metalanguage
Metalanguage brings together new, original contributions on people's knowledge about language and representations of language, e.g., representations of dialects, styles, utterances, stances and goals in relation to sociolinguistic theory, sociolinguistic accounts of language variation, and accounts of linguistic usage. Drawing on a variety of data sources such as lay and linguists' metalanguage, the media, parliamentary debates, education, and retail shopping, the book comprises four sections and an integrative commentary. The main thematic parts deal with metalanguage in relation to the following issues: the theory of metalanguage, ideology, social evaluation, and stylisation. Other key the...
Symbolic Transformation
Brings together scholars in the social sciences from around the world, to address the question of how mind and culture are related through symbols
Readings in Language and Literature
A compendium of scholarship on the English language and literature in the African, and especially Nigerian, contexts. Topics addressed include multilingualism and national development, the influence of Yoruba on secondary school English in Nigeria, humour in Achebe's Anthills of the Savannah, and the tragic hero characterisation of Ola Rotimi.
Nigerian Video Films
Nigerian video films--dramatic features shot on video and sold as cassettes--are being produced at the rate of nearly one a day, making them the major contemporary art form in Nigeria. The history of African film offers no precedent for such a huge, popularly based industry. The contributors to this volume, who include film and television directors, an anthropologist, and scholars of film studies and literature, take a variety of approaches to this flourishing popular art. Topics include aesthetic forms and distribution; the configurations of various ethnic audiences; the new media environment dominated by cassette technology; the video's materialism in a period of economic collapse; transformation of the traditional Yoruba traveling theater; individualism and the moral crisis in Igbo society; Hausa cultural values; the negotiation of gender roles, and the genre of Christian videos.
