Anchimbe Language Contact in a Postcolonial Setting

The Linguistic and Social Context of English and Pidgin in Cameroon
1. Auflage 2012
ISBN: 978-1-61451-119-9
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: 1 - PDF Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, 333 Seiten

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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.

Zielgruppe

Institutional Libraries, Students and Researchers in Applied Linguistics, Sociolinguistics, Language Contact, African Studies, English Studies, Creole Studies, Historical Linguistics

Autoren/Hrsg.

Anchimbe, Eric A.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Sprachkontaktforschung
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Sprachsoziologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Soziolinguistik
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Einzelne Sprachen & Sprachfamilien

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1;Preface;7
2;Introduction;11
2.1;Chapter 1. Language contact in a postcolonial setting: Research approaches to Cameroon English and Cameroon Pidgin English;13
3;Part I. Cameroon English: Properties and frameworks;37
3.1;Chapter 2. The expression of modality in Cameroon English;39
3.2;Chapter 3. A cognitive sociolinguistic approach to the lexicon of Cameroon English and other world Englishes;73
3.3;Chapter 4. Reading the phonology Cameroon English through the Trilateral Process;87
3.4;Chapter 5. One variety, different ethnic tongues: A phonological perspective on Nso’ English;109
3.5;Chapter 6. The filtration processes in Cameroon English;127
3.6;Chapter 7. Language choice, identity, and power in the Cameroonian parliament;151
4;Part II. Cameroon Pidgin English: Properties and history;173
4.1;Chapter 8. Tense and aspect in Cameroon Pidgin English;175
4.2;Chapter 9. Reduplication in Cameroon Pidgin English: Formal and functional perspectives;201
4.3;Chapter 10. Pronouns in Cameroon Pidgin English;225
4.4;Chapter 11. Gud Nyus fo Pidgin?: Bible translation as language elaboration in Cameroon Pidgin English;255
4.5;Chapter 12. German colonial influences on, and representations of, Cameroon Pidgin English;279
5;Part III. Texts and more texts;307
5.1;Written and oral samples of Cameroon English and Cameroon Pidgin English;309
6;Contributors;323
7;Author index;327
8;Subject index;329

Über Autor(innen)

Anchimbe, Eric A.
Eric A. Anchimbe, University of Bayreuth, Germany.