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Structural and Sociolinguistic Perspectives on Indigenisation

On Multilingualism and Language Evolution

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Editors:
  1. Eric A. Anchimbe

    1. Dept. of English Linguistics, University of Bayreuth, Bayreuth, Germany

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  • Focuses on the pragmatics of new indigenized varieties where previous research only deals with lexical, semantic, and phonological properties
  • Provides and uses authentic data from naturally occurring situations which makes the findings more generalisable to other postcolonial multilingual communities
  • Offers rare insights from French as well as English as a post-colonial language
  • Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras

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Table of contents (10 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xv
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  2. Introduction—Indigenisation and Multilingualism: Extending the Debate on Language Evolution in Cameroon

    • Eric A. Anchimbe
    Pages 1-19

  3. Structural Perspectives on Indigenisation—Syntax and Phonology

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 21-21
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    2. ‘That-clauses’ in Cameroon English: A Study in Functional Extension

      • Bonaventure M. Sala
      Pages 23-37

    3. Pronoun-Like Usage in Cameroon English: The Case of Copy, Resumptive, Obligation, and Dummy Pronouns

      • Paul N. Mbangwana
      Pages 39-53

    4. Les camerounismes: Essai d’une (nouvelle) typologie

      • Gratien Gualbert Atindogbé, Charles Bélinga b’Eno†
      Pages 55-79

    5. Intonation in Cameroon English

      • Yves Talla Sando Ouafeu
      Pages 81-102

    6. Ethnolinguistic Heterogeneity in Cameroon English Pronunciation

      • Ernesta Kelen Fonyuy
      Pages 103-118

  4. Sociolinguistic Perspectives on Indigenisation—Sociolinguistics and Pragmatics

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 119-119
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    2. Attitudes Towards Cameroon English: A Sociolinguistic Survey

      • Eric A. Anchimbe
      Pages 121-143

    3. Gender and the use of Tags in Cameroon English Discourse

      • Veronica A. Dashaco, Eric A. Anchimbe
      Pages 145-166

    4. Ethnicité, politesse et représentations au Cameroun

      • Bernard Mulo Farenkia
      Pages 167-188

    5. Address Strategies in Cameroon Pidgin English: A Socio-Pragmatic Perspective

      • Joseph Nkwain
      Pages 189-205

  5. Back Matter

    Pages 207-213
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About this book

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.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Dept. of English Linguistics, University of Bayreuth, Bayreuth, Germany

    Eric A. Anchimbe

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Structural and Sociolinguistic Perspectives on Indigenisation

  • Book Subtitle: On Multilingualism and Language Evolution

  • Editors: Eric A. Anchimbe

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-7881-8

  • Publisher: Springer Dordrecht

  • eBook Packages: Humanities, Social Sciences and Law, Social Sciences (R0)

  • Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht 2014

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-94-007-7880-1Published: 10 January 2014

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-94-024-0066-3Published: 17 September 2016

  • eBook ISBN: 978-94-007-7881-8Published: 20 December 2013

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XV, 213

  • Number of Illustrations: 13 b/w illustrations

  • Topics: Sociolinguistics, African Languages, Applied Linguistics

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