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Structural and Sociolinguistic Perspectives on Indigenisation: On Multilingualism and Language Evolution

✍ Scribed by Eric A. Anchimbe (auth.), Eric A. Anchimbe (eds.)

Publisher
Springer Netherlands
Year
2014
Tongue
English
Leaves
218
Edition
1
Category
Library
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✦ Synopsis

Descriptions of new varieties of European languages in postcolonial contexts have focused exceedingly on system-based indigenisation and variation. This volume–while further illustrating processes and instantiations of indigenisation at this level–incorporates investigations of sociolinguistic and pragmatic phenomena in daily social interaction–e.g. politeness, respect, compliment response, naming and address forms, and gender–through innovative analytic frameworks that view indigenisation from emic perspectives. Focusing on postcolonial Cameroon and using natural and questionnaire data, the book assesses the salience of linguistic and sociocultural hybridisation triggered by colonialism and, recently, globalisation in interaction in and across languages and cultures. The authors illustrate how the multilingual nature of the society and individuals’ multilingual repertoires shape patterns in the indigenisation and evolution of the ex-colonial languages, English and French, and Pidgin English.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-xv
Introduction—Indigenisation and Multilingualism: Extending the Debate on Language Evolution in Cameroon....Pages 1-19
Front Matter....Pages 21-21
‘That-clauses’ in Cameroon English: A Study in Functional Extension....Pages 23-37
Pronoun-Like Usage in Cameroon English: The Case of Copy, Resumptive, Obligation, and Dummy Pronouns....Pages 39-53
Les camerounismes: Essai d’une (nouvelle) typologie....Pages 55-79
Intonation in Cameroon English....Pages 81-102
Ethnolinguistic Heterogeneity in Cameroon English Pronunciation....Pages 103-118
Front Matter....Pages 119-119
Attitudes Towards Cameroon English: A Sociolinguistic Survey....Pages 121-143
Gender and the use of Tags in Cameroon English Discourse....Pages 145-166
Ethnicité, politesse et représentations au Cameroun....Pages 167-188
Address Strategies in Cameroon Pidgin English: A Socio-Pragmatic Perspective....Pages 189-205
Back Matter....Pages 207-213

✦ Subjects

Sociolinguistics; African Languages; Applied Linguistics

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