Language Contact in a Postcolonial Setting

The Linguistic and Social Context of English and Pidgin in Cameroon
1. Auflage 2012
ISBN: 978-1-61451-248-6
Verlag: De Gruyter

Buch, Englisch, 323 Seiten, Format (B × H): 160 mm x 236 mm, Gewicht: 656 g

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

Über Autor(innen)

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

Eric A. Anchimbe, University of Bayreuth, Germany.