Genre in world Englishes : case studies from the Caribbean
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Genre in world Englishes : case studies from the Caribbean
（Varieties of English around the world, v. G67）
J. Benjamins, c2022
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [211]-225) and index
Contents of Works
- 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
- Picong and puns, boasting and complaining : oral performance in the language of Calypso
Description and Table of Contents
Description
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.
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