World Englishes and English in postcolonial contexts have been curiously neglected in an otherwise abundant research literature on text types and genres in English. This volume looks at the adaptation, transformation and emergence of genres in the particular cultural context of the Anglophone Caribbean.

• Genre in World Englishes
• Editorial page
• Title page
• Copyright page
• Table of contents
• Chapter 1. Genre in World Englishes: The global and the postcolonial in oral, written and digital texts
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. Genre and the classification of texts and speech
  • 3. Genre as dynamic community discourse: Formal and functional features in motion
  • 4. The history of genres as history of languages and communities: Case studies from Trinidad and Jamaica in this volume
• Chapter 2. Callaloo, stewed manicou and doubles: Caribbean culinary transformations in Trinidadian print and online recipes
  • 1. The raw, the cooked, and the recipe: From anthropological to text linguistic interests in food preparation in the Caribbean
    • 1.1 Food origins and transformations
    • 1.2 Culinary adaptations
    • 1.3 Creolized food preparations
  • 2. The cooking recipe as a genre in English language contexts
  • 3. Print recipes in Trinidad: Text-external and text-internal features
    • 3.1 Communicative purpose and target readership
    • 3.2 Trinidadian lexical items and their sources
  • 4. The transition from print to online cooking recipes
    • 4.1 Whose Doubles?: On authenticity, membership and appropriation
    • 4.2 Reader response: Interactive features in online recipes
  • 5. Conclusion
  • Acknowledgements
• Chapter 3. Personhood, genealogy and remembrance in death notices and obituaries
  • 1. Introduction: Last rites – linguistic and other acts of mourning
  • 2. Death notices around the world: Formal and functional features of a genre
    • 2.1 The form and functions of death notices
    • 2.2 Comparative structural features in death announcements: On cultural and linguistic versions of the text format
  • 3. Death notices in Trinidad: A corpus-based analysis of classified newspaper ads
    • 3.1 Grandfather of 17: Positional identity, kinship and genealogy in remembrance
    • 3.2 Taboo and euphemisms in the language of Trinidad death notices
    • 3.3 Better known as…: Nicknames and personhood in Trinidad
    • 3.4 Trinidadian death notices across time and media
  • 4. The starved eye closes: Obituaries as life narrative and praise song
  • 5. Beyond print media: Transitions in digital and audio-visual media
• Chapter 4. Metathesiophobia, nutty professors and Patois: Language debates in Letters to the Editor (LTEs) in a Jamaican newspaper
  • 1. Introduction: Readers as writers in letters to the editor
  • 2. Ex cons and elocutionists: The search for linguistic purity in LTEs
  • 3. I am, etc.: Form and function of LTEs
  • 4. Heritage and heresy in language debates in Jamaica
    • 4.1 The good, the bad, and the linguist
    • 4.2 Letters to the editor in the Jamaican language debate: An analysis of the Jamaica Gleaner LTE data
  • 5. Outlook: Langwij Pitishan: Opinion comments in social media
  • Appendix 1. Table LTE 1999–2002 (Total: 40)
  • Appendix 2. TABLE LTE 2010–2020 (Total: 60)
• Chapter 5. Tell me Pastor: Certainty, directness and the assertion of moral norms in a Jamaican newspaper advice column
  • 1. Introduction: Advice in everyday life
  • 2. Form and function of advice columns past and present
    • 2.1 The nation’s confidante: Advice columns as education and negotiation of social norms
    • 2.2 What you might do is …: Advice strategies in public and private situations
    • 2.3 Advice columns in cultural comparison
  • 3. Advice in Caribbean contexts
    • 3.1 Expert-user contexts: Advice columns in Jamaican newspapers
    • 3.2 Confession, judgement and absolution: Directness and certainty in the Jamaican advice column Tell me Pastor
    • 3.3 A corpus analysis of Tell me Pastor columns: Quantitative and qualitative aspects
  • 4. Outlook: User-user advice forums online
• Chapter 6. Mornin Caller: Negotiating power and authority in a Trinidadian radio phone-in programme
  • 1. Introduction: Participation and argumentative talk in public space
  • 2. Talk-in-interaction in radio phone-in programmes
  • 3. Phone-in programmes in the Caribbean and other postcolonial contexts
    • 3.1 The politics of talk radio in Trinidad
    • 3.2 Communication patterns in Caribbean talk radio
  • 4. Mornin Caller: On a Trinidadian radio phone-in community
    • 4.1 Establishing identities: Opening sequences and greetings
    • 4.2 Question-answer sequences: Challenging the host
    • 4.3 Holding the floor: Power and authority in turn-taking sequences
  • 5. Conclusion
  • Acknowledgements
  • Transcription conventions
• Chapter 7. “… allyuh know how to parteeeeeeeeeeee. lawd!”: Linguistic choices and membership construction in the Trinidad & Tobago Possee Livin California forum
  • 1. Introduction: Diaspora communities past and present
  • 2. Language and identity in blogs and forums
  • 3. Non-standard orthography and identity: Creole in writing
  • 4. Trinidad & Tobago Possee Livin California: Notes on an online diaspora forum
    • 4.1 Indexing Trinidadian identity
    • 4.2 Negotiation between heritage/home and host variety: Allyuh, yall and you guys
  • 5. Diasporic citizenship and the future of Cyber-Creole
• Chapter 8. Picong and puns, boasting and complaining: Oral performance in the language of Calypso
  • 1. Introduction: Rum and Coca Cola: Contested perspectives on the nature of a genre
  • 2. Calypso, oral culture and the good performer
    • 2.1 Historical roots of calypso
    • 2.2 The language of calypso
    • 2.3 Calypso and oral performance
  • 3. Belmont Jackass and Madame Dracula: Extempore performance and picong/ ritual insults in the Trinidad Calypso context
  • 4. I ain’t boasting but I’ve got durability: Self-praise, masculinity and the gender divide in traditional Calypso
  • 5. Outlook: Soca, calypso and the global scene
• References
• Index