Speech acts and politeness in French as a pluricentric language : Illustrations from Cameroon and Canada

ISBN-13: 9783643904560 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 218 str.

Bernard Mulo Farenkia

Opis

This book is a contribution to the growing body of research in variational pragmatics and in postcolonial pragmatics, two emergent frameworks in cross-cultural pragmatics. Variational pragmatics studies pragmatic phenomena in regional varieties of the same language from a comparative perspective. Postcolonial pragmatics examines patterns of pragmatic phenomena in postcolonial spaces. The study focuses on the realization patterns of compliments and compliment responses and politeness strategies used in performing both speech acts in Cameroon French and in Canadian French. (Series: Romanistische Linguistik / Romance Linguistics - Vol. 10)

O autorze

Bernard Mulo Farenkia is Associate Professor of French and Linguistics and Coordinator of the French program at Cape Breton University in Canada.