Postcolonial pragmatics: An introduction

Anchimbe, Eric A.; Janney, Richard W.

doi:10.1016/j.pragma.2010.10.027

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“…Though these different forms vary from society to society (depending on the length and type of colonial mixtures), they are significantly similar in the extent to which indigenous social norms reoccur in interactions. Postcolonial pragmatics, therefore, studies these different forms, functions, and effects of mixed, hybridic patterns of interaction in these complex multilingual speech communities (see Anchimbe & Janney 2011a). Anchimbe (2011) applies this approach to situations of offering in Cameroon and Ghana.…”

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Code-switching: Between identity and exclusion

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2015

Code-Switching Between Structural and Sociolinguistic Perspectives

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This chapter describes, from a postcolonial pragmatic perspective, the illocutionary intents behind Cameroonians' code-switching from English to French and Cameroon Pidgin English (CPE) in written online interactions. Taking into account that colonialism brought into contact foreign and local languages and cultures, it is illustrated how the choice of these languages in given contexts by members of the online forums studied here is motivated by the desire to denigrate, insult, exclude and challenge -when the switch is to French -or to consolidate in-group cohesion and raise the public esteem of the in-group -when the switch is to CPE. The approach adopted here enables us to factor in (colonial) history, demography, ethnicity, and culture in the analysis of code-switching.

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“…For a discussion of how code-switching, code choice, or code alternation enable interlocutors to take up and perform societal roles and responsibilities in Cameroon, seeAnchimbe & Janney (2011a: 1455-1457 andAnchimbe (2013: 180-183). Brought to you by | New York University Bobst Library Technical Services Authenticated Download Date | 7/6/15 5:18 AM…”

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“…We will examine a total of 16 romances taken from the corpus that is being compiled for Project FFI2014-53962-P in order to specifically explore the dynamics of English/Spanish codeswitching, focusing on both their types and the socio-pragmatic or discourse functions that these cases of language mixing 2 seem to play. Mixed-language written texts have frequently been found in postcolonial writing and travel literature (Curell and de Uriarte, 2001; González-Cruz and González de la Rosa 2006Rosa , 2007Curell et al 2009;Anchimbe and Janne, 2011;González-Cruz, 2013). It is only relatively recently that scholars have shown an interest in studying the patterns of codeswitching in other types of literary writing.…”

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Exploring the dynamics of English/Spanish codeswitching in a written corpus

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2017

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This investigation is part of a much larger ongoing research project which approaches a corpus of popular romance fiction novels from a multidisciplinary perspective. The paper focuses on the usage of Spanish words and expressions in the English written discourse of two samples of romances taken from the corpus we are compiling for Research Project FFI2014-53962-P. When analyzing the occurrences of Hispanicisms in the samples, we will specifically address the issues of both their forms and the different socio-pragmatic functions that these cases of language switching seem to play. It is only recently that scholars have studied the patterns of codeswitching in literary writing, but, to the best of the author's knowledge, no previous research has focused on codeswitching in this particular subgenre, which has always been doubly stigmatized for being both popular and feminine.

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“…We will examine a total of 16 romances taken from the corpus that is being compiled for Project FFI2014-53962-P in order to specifically explore the dynamics of English/Spanish codeswitching, focusing on both their types and the socio-pragmatic or discourse functions that these cases of language mixing 2 seem to play. Mixed-language written texts have frequently been found in postcolonial writing and travel literature (Curell and de Uriarte, 2001;González de la Rosa 2006, 2007;Curell et al 2009;Anchimbe and Janne, 2011;González-Cruz, 2013). It is only relatively recently that scholars have shown an interest in studying the patterns of codeswitching in other types of literary writing.…”

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Postcolonial pragmatics: An introduction

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Code-switching: Between identity and exclusion

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