English as a Lingua Franca in Migrants' Trauma Narratives
"Providing a positive counterbalance to the current anti-immigration rhetoric which is so prevalent, Guido's research offers pertinent insight into English as a Lingua Franca being used in high stakes communicative acts where power imbalances are acute, and will make substantial contributi...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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London :
Palgrave Macmillan UK : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan,
2018.
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| Edition: | 1st ed. 2018. |
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| Online Access: | Full Text via HEAL-Link |
Table of Contents:
- 1. Introduction: setting the scene
- 2. Trauma narratives in unequal migration encounters
- 3. Trauma-narrative analysis at the level of Modality
- 4. Trauma-narrative analysis at the level of Language Typology
- 5. Trauma-narrative analysis at the level of Lexis
- 6. Trauma-narrative analysis at the level of Text Structure
- 7. Trauma-narrative analysis at the level of Pragmalinguistic Schemata
- 8. Trauma-narrative analysis at the level of Sociopragmatic Schemata
- 9. Conclusions: a cross-cultural reassessment of the 'cooperative principle'.