Author: David Bellama
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Language and languages
Languages : en
Pages : 116
Book Description
An Introduction to Cameroonian Pidgin
Author: David Bellama
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Language and languages
Languages : en
Pages : 116
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Language and languages
Languages : en
Pages : 116
Book Description
A Grammar of Cameroonian Pidgin
Author: Nkemngong Nkengasong
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN: 1443887544
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 175
Book Description
This volume represents a comprehensive description of the structure of Cameroonian Pidgin, including an overview of its socio-cultural context, writing system, sounds, word formation, word classes and sentence structures. It comprises a corpus of 540 Cameroonian Pidgin proverbs and a rich glossary of over 1000 words and expressions typical of Cameroonian Pidgin which are helpful in understanding the characteristic features of the language, as well as the cultural, the social, and the philosophical contexts of the Cameroonian Pidgin speaker. Written with the first-hand experience of a “native speaker”, it will be of interest to ordinary users, as well as students, researchers and professional linguists interested in the way the language functions. Indeed, it represents a useful resource for anyone wishing to learn or know about Pidgin, especially tourists and professionals traveling to West and Central Africa.
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN: 1443887544
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 175
Book Description
This volume represents a comprehensive description of the structure of Cameroonian Pidgin, including an overview of its socio-cultural context, writing system, sounds, word formation, word classes and sentence structures. It comprises a corpus of 540 Cameroonian Pidgin proverbs and a rich glossary of over 1000 words and expressions typical of Cameroonian Pidgin which are helpful in understanding the characteristic features of the language, as well as the cultural, the social, and the philosophical contexts of the Cameroonian Pidgin speaker. Written with the first-hand experience of a “native speaker”, it will be of interest to ordinary users, as well as students, researchers and professional linguists interested in the way the language functions. Indeed, it represents a useful resource for anyone wishing to learn or know about Pidgin, especially tourists and professionals traveling to West and Central Africa.
A Dictionary of Cameroon Pidgin English Usage
Author: Jean-Paul Kouega
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Cameroon
Languages : en
Pages : 162
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Cameroon
Languages : en
Pages : 162
Book Description
Ghanaian Pidgin English in Its West African Context
Author: Magnus Huber
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing
ISBN: 9027248826
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 340
Book Description
This first published full-scale study of the Ghanaian variety of West African Pidgin English (GhaPE) makes extensive use of hitherto neglected historical material and provides a synchronic account of GhaPE's structure and sociolinguistics. Special focus is on the differences between GhaPE and other West African Pidgins, in particular the development of, and interrelations between, the different varieties of restructured English in West Africa, from Sierra Leone to Cameroon. This monograph further includes an overview of the history of Afro-European contact languages in Lower Guinea with special emphasis on the Gold Coast; an outline of the settlement of Freetown, Sierra Leone, with a description of how and when the transplantation of Sierra Leonean Krio to other West African countries took place; an analysis of the linguistic evidence for the origin, development, and spread of restructured Englishes on the Lower Guinea Coast; an account of the different varieties of GhaPE and their sociolinguistic status in the contemporary linguistic ecology of Ghana; as well as a comprehensive structural description of the uneducated variety of GhaPE. The book is accompanied by a CD-ROM which contains illustrative material such as spoken GhaPE and photographs.
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing
ISBN: 9027248826
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 340
Book Description
This first published full-scale study of the Ghanaian variety of West African Pidgin English (GhaPE) makes extensive use of hitherto neglected historical material and provides a synchronic account of GhaPE's structure and sociolinguistics. Special focus is on the differences between GhaPE and other West African Pidgins, in particular the development of, and interrelations between, the different varieties of restructured English in West Africa, from Sierra Leone to Cameroon. This monograph further includes an overview of the history of Afro-European contact languages in Lower Guinea with special emphasis on the Gold Coast; an outline of the settlement of Freetown, Sierra Leone, with a description of how and when the transplantation of Sierra Leonean Krio to other West African countries took place; an analysis of the linguistic evidence for the origin, development, and spread of restructured Englishes on the Lower Guinea Coast; an account of the different varieties of GhaPE and their sociolinguistic status in the contemporary linguistic ecology of Ghana; as well as a comprehensive structural description of the uneducated variety of GhaPE. The book is accompanied by a CD-ROM which contains illustrative material such as spoken GhaPE and photographs.
Your Madness, Not Mine
Author: Juliana Makuchi Abbenyi-Nfah
Publisher: Ohio University Press
ISBN: 0896804356
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 184
Book Description
Women’s writing in Cameroon has so far been dominated by Francophone writers. The short stories in this collection represent the yearnings and vision of an Anglophone woman, who writes both as a Cameroonian and as a woman whose life has been shaped by the minority status her people occupy within the nation-state. The stories in Your Madness, Not Mine are about postcolonial Cameroon, but especially about Cameroonian women, who probe their day-to-day experiences of survival and empowerment as they deal with gender oppression: from patriarchal expectations to the malaise of maldevelopment, unemployment, and the attraction of the West for young Cameroonians. Makuchi has given us powerful portraits of the people of postcolonial Africa in the so-called global village who too often go unseen and unheard.
Publisher: Ohio University Press
ISBN: 0896804356
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 184
Book Description
Women’s writing in Cameroon has so far been dominated by Francophone writers. The short stories in this collection represent the yearnings and vision of an Anglophone woman, who writes both as a Cameroonian and as a woman whose life has been shaped by the minority status her people occupy within the nation-state. The stories in Your Madness, Not Mine are about postcolonial Cameroon, but especially about Cameroonian women, who probe their day-to-day experiences of survival and empowerment as they deal with gender oppression: from patriarchal expectations to the malaise of maldevelopment, unemployment, and the attraction of the West for young Cameroonians. Makuchi has given us powerful portraits of the people of postcolonial Africa in the so-called global village who too often go unseen and unheard.
Language Policy and Identity Construction
Author: Eric A. Anchimbe
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing
ISBN: 9027218730
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 277
Book Description
The (dis)empowerment of languages through language policy in multilingual postcolonial communities often shapes speakers identification with these languages, their attitude towards other languages in the community, and their choices in interpersonal and intergroup communication. Focusing on the dynamics of Cameroon s multilingualism, this book contributes to current debates on the impact of politic language policy on daily language use in sociocultural and interpersonal interactions, multiple identity construction, indigenous language teaching and empowerment, the use of Cameroon Pidgin English in certain formal institutional domains initially dominated by the official languages, and linguistic patterns of social interaction for politeness, respect, and in-group bonding. Due to the multiple perspectives adopted, the book will be of interest to sociolinguists, applied linguists, pragmaticians, Afrikanists, and scholars of postcolonial linguistics."
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing
ISBN: 9027218730
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 277
Book Description
The (dis)empowerment of languages through language policy in multilingual postcolonial communities often shapes speakers identification with these languages, their attitude towards other languages in the community, and their choices in interpersonal and intergroup communication. Focusing on the dynamics of Cameroon s multilingualism, this book contributes to current debates on the impact of politic language policy on daily language use in sociocultural and interpersonal interactions, multiple identity construction, indigenous language teaching and empowerment, the use of Cameroon Pidgin English in certain formal institutional domains initially dominated by the official languages, and linguistic patterns of social interaction for politeness, respect, and in-group bonding. Due to the multiple perspectives adopted, the book will be of interest to sociolinguists, applied linguists, pragmaticians, Afrikanists, and scholars of postcolonial linguistics."
English in Cameroon
Author: Hans-Georg Wolf
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter
ISBN: 3110849054
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 372
Book Description
The multilingual situation in Cameroon and the status of English as a co-official language constitute a unique and fascinating case for sociolinguistic investigation. Drawing from first-hand material, the author investigates several aspects of this complex configuration, including the historical development of English in Cameroon, the various languages and lingua franca areas, the linguistic policy, the de facto status of English and the situation in the anglophone provinces. The speech community of the Anglophones is highlighted as a rare example of an ethnicity tied to the second language. Apart from important sociolinguistic findings, the work includes a novel, corpus-based analysis of Cameroon English. Certain lexical phenomena are explained by the cognitive coding of culture - particularly the African cultural model of community, which also underlies the self-perception of the Anglophones - a perspective hitherto neglected in the study of the New Englishes.
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter
ISBN: 3110849054
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 372
Book Description
The multilingual situation in Cameroon and the status of English as a co-official language constitute a unique and fascinating case for sociolinguistic investigation. Drawing from first-hand material, the author investigates several aspects of this complex configuration, including the historical development of English in Cameroon, the various languages and lingua franca areas, the linguistic policy, the de facto status of English and the situation in the anglophone provinces. The speech community of the Anglophones is highlighted as a rare example of an ethnicity tied to the second language. Apart from important sociolinguistic findings, the work includes a novel, corpus-based analysis of Cameroon English. Certain lexical phenomena are explained by the cognitive coding of culture - particularly the African cultural model of community, which also underlies the self-perception of the Anglophones - a perspective hitherto neglected in the study of the New Englishes.
An Introduction to African Linguistics
Author: Ngessimo M. Mutaka
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Africa
Languages : en
Pages : 340
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Africa
Languages : en
Pages : 340
Book Description
An Introduction to Pidgins and Creoles
Author: John Holm
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521585811
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 308
Book Description
A clear and concise introduction to the study of how new languages come into being.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521585811
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 308
Book Description
A clear and concise introduction to the study of how new languages come into being.
Dog Days
Author: Alain Patrice Nganang
Publisher: University of Virginia Press
ISBN: 9780813925356
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 252
Book Description
In the vanguard of a new generation of writers, Nganang tells--"through the voice of a dog"--the story of an Africa born of military dictators and absolute poverty.
Publisher: University of Virginia Press
ISBN: 9780813925356
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 252
Book Description
In the vanguard of a new generation of writers, Nganang tells--"through the voice of a dog"--the story of an Africa born of military dictators and absolute poverty.