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Title:

Politeness and face in Caribbean Creoles / edited by Susanne Mühleisen, Bettina Migge.

Publisher:

J. Benjamins,

Copyright Date:

c2005

Description:

vi, 293 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.

Subject:

Creole dialects--Caribbean Area.
Politeness (Linguistics)--Caribbean Area.
Sociolinguistics--Caribbean Area.

Other Authors:

Muehleisen, Susanne.
Migge, Bettina.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Contents:

Learning respect in Guadeloupe: greetings and politeness rituals / Alex Louise Tessonneau. 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.

Series:

Varieties of English around the world. General series. 0172-7362 ; v. G34

ISBN:

9789027248947 (Hb)
902724894X (Hb)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)61109559

LCCN:

2005049338

Locations:

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)

OMAX631 -- Geisler Learning Resource Cntr (Pella)