Politeness and Face in Caribbean Creoles
Politeness and Face in Caribbean Creoles is the first collection to focus on socio-pragmatic issues in the Caribbean context, including the socio-cultural rules and principles underlying strategic language use. While the Caribbean has long been recognized as a rich and interesting site where cultural continuities meet with new "creolized" or innovative practices, questions of politeness practices constructions of personhood, or the notion of face have so far been neglected in linguistic...
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Politeness and Face in Caribbean Creoles is the first collection to focus on socio-pragmatic issues in the Caribbean context, including the socio-cultural rules and principles underlying strategic language use. While the Caribbean has long been recognized as a rich and interesting site where cultural continuities meet with new "creolized" or innovative practices, questions of politeness practices constructions of personhood, or the notion of face have so far been neglected in linguistic research on Caribbean Creoles. Drawing on linguistic politeness theory and Goffman's concept of face, eleven mostly fieldwork-based innovative contributions critically examine a range of topics, such as ritual insults, strategic use of "bad language", kiss-teeth, the performance of homophobic threats, greetings, address forms, advice giving, socialization and discourse, parent-child discourse, register choice and communicative repertoire in the Caribbean context.
Politeness and face in Caribbean Creoles : an overview1The use of "bad" language as a politeness strategy in a Panamanian Creole village23Ritualized insults and the African diaspora : sounding in African American Vernacular English and wording in Nigerian Pidgin45Rude sounds : kiss teeth and negotiation of the public sphere73Faiya-bon : the socio-pragmatics of homophobia in Jamaican (Dancehall) culture101Greeting and social change121Advice in an Indo-Guyanese village and the interactional organization of uncertainty145Meaningful routines : meaning-making and the face value of Barbadian greetings169Forms of address in English-lexicon Creoles : the presentation of selves and others in the Caribbean context195"May I have the bilna?" : the development of face-saving in young Trinidadian children227Learning respect in Guadeloupe : greetings and politeness rituals255
