Language contact in a postcolonial setting : the linguistic and social context of English and Pidgin in Cameroon / edited by Eric A. Anchimbe.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Anchimbe, Eric A.

Series:

Language Contact and Bilingualism [LCB]

Language contact and bilingualism ; 4

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

English language--Cameroon.

English language.

Pidgin languages--Cameroon.

Pidgin languages.

Languages in contact--Cameroon.

Languages in contact.

Sociolinguistics--Cameroon.

Sociolinguistics.

Postcolonialism.

Cameroon--Languages.

Cameroon.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (334 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Berlin ; Boston : De Gruyter Mouton, c2012.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This timely book brings together research on the features and evolution of Cameroon English and Cameroon Pidgin English, approached from a variety of innovative multilingual frameworks that focus on the emergence of mother tongue speakers. The authors illustrate how language and population contact, history (colonialism), multilingualism, translation, and indigenization have contributed to shaping the norms of postcolonial Englishes and Pidgins. Employing naturalistic data, the volume provides a new fascinating perspective that better situates and supplements existing research in the fields of African Englishes and Creolistics. It is particularly of key interest to sociolinguists, contact linguists, Africanists, Anglicists, creolists and historical linguists.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Preface

Table of contents

Introduction

Chapter 1. Language contact in a postcolonial setting: Research approaches to Cameroon English and Cameroon Pidgin English / Anchimbe, Eric A.

Part I. Cameroon English: Properties and frameworks

Chapter 2. The expression of modality in Cameroon English / Nkemleke, Daniel A.

Chapter 3. A cognitive sociolinguistic approach to the lexicon of Cameroon English and other world Englishes / Wolf, Hans-Georg

Chapter 4. Reading Cameroon English phonology through the Trilateral Process / Bobda, Augustin Simo

Chapter 5. One variety, di¤erent ethnic tongues: A phonological perspective on Nso' English / Fonyuy, Ernesta Kelen

Chapter 6. The filtration processes in Cameroon English / Anchimbe, Eric A.

Chapter 7. Language choice, identity, and power in the Cameroonian parliament / Atanga, Lilian Lem

Part II. Cameroon Pidgin English: Properties and history

Chapter 8. Tense and aspect in Cameroon Pidgin English / Schröder, Anne

Chapter 9. Reduplication in Cameroon Pidgin English: Formal and functional perspectives / Sala, Bonaventure M.

Chapter 10. Pronouns in Cameroon Pidgin English / Atindogbé, Gratien G. / Chibaka, Evelyn Fogwe

Chapter 11. Gud Nyus fo Pidgin?: Bible translation as language elaboration in Cameroon Pidgin English / Mühleisen, Susanne / Anchimbe, Eric A.

Chapter 12. German colonial influences on, and representations of, Cameroon Pidgin English / Weber, Brigitte

Part III. Texts and more texts

Written and oral samples of Cameroon English and Cameroon Pidgin English / Anchimbe, Eric A.

Contributors

Author index

Subject index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

ISBN:

9781283857307

1283857308

9781614511199

1614511195

OCLC:

819508468