Caribbean Discourses Stylistic and Critical Discourse Approaches to Language Use in the Caribbean
As a site of great variation, linguistic and otherwise, the Caribbean provides unique insight into the interplay of the socio-political and language in contemporary societies in the Global South. Based on work presented at the University of Trinidad and Tobago’s “Stylistics, Critical Discourse Analy...
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Palgrave Macmillan
2024, 2024
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| Edition: | 1st ed. 2024 |
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Table of Contents:
- Chapter 1. Introduction
- Part I Tracing the Development of Discourses in the Caribbean
- Chapter 2. Styles and Stylistic Change in Creole Languages: Formal Language in the Eastern Maroon Creole
- Chapter 3. Towards a Discursive History of the Caribbean as a History of Genres
- Part II Discourse and Public Policy in the Caribbean
- Chapter 4. Critical Discourse Studies and Curriculum Development in Trinidad and Tobago: Exploring Discursive Practices in Education Policy
- Part III Discursive Constructions of the Caribbean Prime Minister
- Chapter 5. Taking Responsibility: Conceptual Metaphor and the Accession Stage of Leadership in Eric Williams’ Inward Hunger: The Making of a Prime Minister
- Chapter 6. Masking the Critic: A Critical Discourse Analysis of Newspaper Editorials
- Chapter 7. “The Most Honourable Brogad”: A Critical Discourse Analysis of Jamaica’s Prime Minister as Hero, Sex Symbol and Villain on Social Media
- Part IV Stylistic Appraisals of Caribbean Literary Discourse
- Chapter 8. “He Was Oppressed by a Sense of Loss”: Stylistic Constructions of the Tragic in A House for Mr Biswas
- Chapter 9. Selvon’s Stylistics: Self-Conscious Language Production in An Island Is a World
- Chapter 10. Storifying Caribbean Cricket: Voice and Perspective in Paul Keens-Douglas’s “Tanti at de Oval”
- Part V Gender, Media, and Discourse in the Caribbean
- Chapter 11. Digital Discourses on Gender-Based Violence in Trinidad and Tobago
- Chapter 12. Media Representation of Gender-Based Violence in Two Cases and Related Examples: A Multimodal Discursive Study./