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Anchimbe, Eric A.:
"Motions of support" and the communicative act of thanking in political discourse.
In: Fetzer, Anita
(Hrsg.):
The Pragmatics of Political Discourse : Explorations across Cultures. -
Amsterdam
: Benjamins
,
2013
. - S. 219-242
. - (Pragmatics & Beyond : New Series
; 228
)
ISBN 9789027272393
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1075/pbns.228.12anc
Abstract
Using political discourses produced from below, i.e. by the common people in Cameroon rather than by prominent politicians, this chapter illustrates how the social act of thanking is realised in the written political discourse sub-genre called ‘motions of support’. These are letters read on radio or TV or published in newspapers, addressed to the president thanking him for a political favour or action deemed beneficial to the group writing the motion. In most of these open letters, groups of people extend thanks to the president for appointing a member of their community, ethnic group, town, or village into government. The overall aim of this chapter is to come up with a taxonomy for studying the structure, intent, and content of motions of support. In these letters, thanking is not a single speech act but a communicative speech event in which the act of thanking is realised with the help of other speech acts. The elaborate decorum in them could be attributed to indigenous Cameroonian languages and hereditary cultures in which the ruler is discursively praised and revered as all-powerful.
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| Publikationsform: | Aufsatz in einem Buch |
|---|---|
| Begutachteter Beitrag: | Ja |
| Institutionen der Universität: | Fakultäten > Sprach- und Literaturwissenschaftliche Fakultät > Lehrstuhl Englische Sprachwissenschaft > Lehrstuhl Englische Sprachwissenschaft - Univ.-Prof. Dr. Susanne Mühleisen Research Networks > African Studies Graduierteneinrichtungen > BIGSAS |
| Titel an der UBT entstanden: | Ja |
| Themengebiete aus DDC: | 400 Sprache > 400 Sprachwissenschaft 800 Literatur > 890 Andere Literaturen |
| Eingestellt am: | 21 Apr 2026 12:16 |
| Letzte Änderung: | 21 Apr 2026 12:16 |
| URI: | https://eref.uni-bayreuth.de/id/eprint/96858 |