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Linguistics in the service of Africa: with particular reference to research on English and African languages
In: Bayreuth African studies series, 18
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LIMITS OF DISCOURSE: EXAMPLES FROM POLITICAL, ACADEMIC, AND HUMAN-AGENT INTERACTION
This contribution looks at modern discourse from two perspectives. It tries to show that the term 'discourse' has been expanded over the last few decades to include more phenomena and more disciplines that use it as a basis for their analyses. But it also tries to show that discourse in the sense of effective interaction has met its limits. The fundamental question is: When is discourse real discourse, i.e. more than a series of unrelated utterances and when is it coherent interactive communication? This paper does not intend to provide a new overall theoretical-methodological model, it uses examples from political discourse to demonstrate that popular discourse is often unfortunately less interactive than seems necessary, examples from academic discourse to illustrate that community conventions are being standardised more and more, and from humanoid-human discourse to argue that it is still difficult to construct agents that are recognised as discourse partners by human beings. Theoretical approaches to discuss these limits of discourse include coherence andintentionality. They can be applied to show where lack of cohesion in discourse indicates lack of cohesion in society.
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Comment on 'Researching and critiquing World Englishes' (A. Mahboob and J. Liang)
In: Asian Englishes: an international journal of the sociolinguistics of English in Asia, Pacific, Band 16, Heft 3, S. 261-263
ISSN: 2331-2548
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English in East and Central Africa
In: Bayreuth African Studies Series, 15 ; 24
Die Beiträge untersuchen die Verwendung der englischen Sprache in Ostafrika, insbesondere Kenia und Tansania, und im südlichen Afrika sowie in Kamerun. Analysiert wird hauptsächlich, welchen Einfluß Englisch und afrikanische Sprachen aufeinander hatten und immer noch haben. (DÜI-Hff)
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