Politeness and face in caribbean creoles
- Publication/Creation:
- Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : J. Benjamins, [2005]
- Resource Type:
- Book
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- Full Title:
- Politeness and face in caribbean creoles / edited by Susanne Mühleisen, Bettina Migge
- Series Titles:
- Varieties of English around the world. General series, 34
Varieties of English around the world. v. 34.
- Related/Included Titles:
- Use of "bad" language as a politeness strategy in a Panamanian Creole village /
Ritualized insults and the African diaspora: sounding in African American vernacular English and wording in Nigerian Pidgin /
Rude sounds: Kiss Teeth and negotiation of the public sphere /
Faiya-bon: the socio-pragmatics of homophobia in Jamaican (Dancehall) culture /
Greeting and social change /
Advice in an Indo-Guyanese village and the interactional organization of uncertainty /
Meaningful routines: meaning-making and the face value of Barbadian greetings /
Forms of address in English-lexicon Creoles: the presentation of selves and others in the Caribbean context /
"May I have the bilna?": the development of face-saving in young Trinidadian children /
Learning respect in Guadeloupe: greetings and politeness rituals /
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- Additional Author/Creators:
- Muehleisen, Susanne
Migge, Bettina
Subjects/Genre
- Subjects:
- Creole dialects--Caribbean Area
Politeness (Linguistics)--Caribbean Area
Sociolinguistics--Caribbean Area
Description/Summary
- Table of 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.
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- Language:
- English
- Physical Type/Description:
- vi, 293 pages ; 24 cm.
- Related Resources Link:
- Table of contents only
Additional Identifiers
- Catalog ID (MMSID):
- 990017486460302486
- ISBN:
- 902724894X
9789027248947 - OCLC Number:
- 61109559
- Barcode:
- 010002499909
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