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Author:   Ryan Durgasingh ,  Nicha Selvon-Ramkissoon
Publisher:   Springer International Publishing AG
Imprint:   Palgrave Macmillan
Edition:   2024 ed.
ISBN:  

9783031450464

ISBN 10:   3031450469
Pages:   364
Publication Date:   06 March 2024
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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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./

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Ryan Durgasingh is a Research Fellow at Ruhr University, Bochum, and PhD candidate at the University of Münster, Germany, where his work focuses on morphosyntactic variation in Caribbean Englishes. His research interests include stylistics, Critical Discourse Studies, variationist sociolinguistics, and corpus-based approaches to linguistic analysis.  Nicha Selvon-Ramkissoon is an Assistant Professor at the Centre for Education Programmes, University of Trinidad and Tobago. Her main areas of interest are in Language Arts Curriculum Development, Second Dialect/Language Pedagogy, Critical Discourse Studies, and Translanguaging pedagogy for migrant communities.

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