Pragmatic variation across the New Englishes

IF 1.8 1区文学 0 LANGUAGE & LINGUISTICS

Journal of Pragmatics Pub Date : 2025-05-17 DOI:10.1016/j.pragma.2025.04.015

Foluke Unuabonah , Ulrike Gut

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Abstract

The Special Issue brings together and illustrates innovative approaches to investigating pragmatic variation in the ‘New’ varieties of English that have developed around the world, including Nigerian English, Ghanaian English, Kenyan English, Ugandan English, Namibian English, South African English, Sri Lankan English and Indian English. These Englishes are each spoken in unique postcolonial contexts, where specific cultural and linguistic settings interact with speakers' pragmatic choices. Focussing on a wide range of pragmatic items, the papers showcase the use of (comparative) corpus-based approaches to studying pragmatic variation in New Englishes. In particular, the papers introduce the new method of Postcolonial Corpus Pragmatics, a corpus-based approach that combines quantitative and qualitative analyses, sophisticated multifactorial analysis methods for discovering the combined effects of various factors on pragmatic choices as well as an innovative method of designing a tool for researching pragmatics in postcolonial contexts, which demonstrates both a solid theoretical foundation as well as a specific focus on the postcolonial community of practice under investigation.

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新英语的语用变化

本期特刊汇集并说明了研究世界各地发展起来的“新”英语变体的语用变化的创新方法，包括尼日利亚英语、加纳英语、肯尼亚英语、乌干达英语、纳米比亚英语、南非英语、斯里兰卡英语和印度英语。这些英语都是在独特的后殖民语境中使用的，在这种语境中，特定的文化和语言环境与说话者的语用选择相互作用。这些论文集中在广泛的语用项目上，展示了使用（比较）语料库为基础的方法来研究新英语的语用变化。论文特别介绍了后殖民语料库语用学的新方法，这是一种基于语料库的方法，结合了定量和定性分析，复杂的多因素分析方法，用于发现各种因素对语用选择的综合影响，以及设计后殖民语境下语用学研究工具的创新方法。这既表明了坚实的理论基础，也表明了对调查中的后殖民实践社区的具体关注。

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Journal of Pragmatics Multiple-

CiteScore

3.90

自引率

18.80%

发文量

219

期刊介绍： Since 1977, the Journal of Pragmatics has provided a forum for bringing together a wide range of research in pragmatics, including cognitive pragmatics, corpus pragmatics, experimental pragmatics, historical pragmatics, interpersonal pragmatics, multimodal pragmatics, sociopragmatics, theoretical pragmatics and related fields. Our aim is to publish innovative pragmatic scholarship from all perspectives, which contributes to theories of how speakers produce and interpret language in different contexts drawing on attested data from a wide range of languages/cultures in different parts of the world. The Journal of Pragmatics also encourages work that uses attested language data to explore the relationship between pragmatics and neighbouring research areas such as semantics, discourse analysis, conversation analysis and ethnomethodology, interactional linguistics, sociolinguistics, linguistic anthropology, media studies, psychology, sociology, and the philosophy of language. Alongside full-length articles, discussion notes and book reviews, the journal welcomes proposals for high quality special issues in all areas of pragmatics which make a significant contribution to a topical or developing area at the cutting-edge of research.