Language contact in a postcolonial setting
Subtitle: the linguistic and social context of English and Pidgin in Cameroon
By: edited by Eric A. Anchimbe
Series: Language contact and bilingualism -- 4
Publisher: De Gruyter Mouton; de Gruyter Mouton
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Berlin; Boston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 323
ISBN-13: 9781614512486
Subjects: Languages; Languages in contact; Pidgin languages; Sociolinguistics; Cameroon; English language; Postcolonialism
Description: "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."--Publisher's website.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.