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8. “When I die, don’t cry”: the ethnopragmatics of “gratitude” in West African languages
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Felix K. Ameka
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Chapters in this book
- Frontmatter I
- 1. Ethnopragmatics: a new paradigm 1
- 2. Anglo scripts against “putting pressure” on other people and their linguistic manifestations 31
- 3. “Lift your game Martina!”: deadpan jocular irony and the ethnopragmatics of Australian English 65
- 4. Social hierarchy in the “speech culture” of Singapore 99
- 5. Why the “inscrutable” Chinese face? Emotionality and facial expression in Chinese 127
- 6. Cultural scripts: glimpses into the Japanese emotion world 171
- 7. The communicative realisation of confianza and calor humano in Colombian Spanish 199
- 8. “When I die, don’t cry”: the ethnopragmatics of “gratitude” in West African languages 231
- Author index 267
- General index 273
Chapters in this book
- Frontmatter I
- 1. Ethnopragmatics: a new paradigm 1
- 2. Anglo scripts against “putting pressure” on other people and their linguistic manifestations 31
- 3. “Lift your game Martina!”: deadpan jocular irony and the ethnopragmatics of Australian English 65
- 4. Social hierarchy in the “speech culture” of Singapore 99
- 5. Why the “inscrutable” Chinese face? Emotionality and facial expression in Chinese 127
- 6. Cultural scripts: glimpses into the Japanese emotion world 171
- 7. The communicative realisation of confianza and calor humano in Colombian Spanish 199
- 8. “When I die, don’t cry”: the ethnopragmatics of “gratitude” in West African languages 231
- Author index 267
- General index 273
