This study offers a pragmatic dimension to World Englishes research. It is particularly timely because pragmatics has generally been understudied in past resear

In sociolinguistic research on Englishes world-wide, little has been published on the pragmatics of postcolonial varieties. This interdisciplinary volume closes

The first book to explore rhetorical refusals—instances in which speakers and writers deliberately flout the conventions of rhetoric and defy their audiences�