A Dictionary Of Cameroon English Usage

Author : Jean-Paul Kouega
Publisher : Peter Lang
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 3039110276

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A Dictionary of Cameroon English Usage by Jean-Paul Kouega Pdf

This book initiates the process of codification of a postcolonial variety of English, namely Cameroon English. It focuses on the present-day lexicon of this non-native variety of English. English has been in use in this territory for a long period of time and over the years, it has developed some characteristic lexical features which have not as yet been described fully. Previous researchers have been regarding linguistic innovations as cases of lexical errors or Cameroonisms; as a result, teachers and language purists have been discouraging their usage. Today, it is obvious that these innovations have come to stay; they are specific to Cameroon and therefore constitute Cameroon's contribution to the development of world language English. The book is divided into two parts. Part One gives background information on Cameroon (physical and human geography, economy and geopolitics), the language situation in Cameroon (ancestral and vehicular languages, major lingua francas and official languages) and the linguistic features of English in Cameroon (phonology, grammar and lexicology). Part Two describes the research design (textual material, method of data collection and informants) and provides a lexicographic description (spelling, word formative process, definition) of characteristic Cameroon English lexemes.

Author : Jean-Paul Kouega
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 3862886417

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A Dictionary of Cameroon Pidgin English Usage by Jean-Paul Kouega Pdf

Author : Jean-Paul Kouega
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 334 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : UOM:39015064932067

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Aspects of Cameroon English Usage by Jean-Paul Kouega Pdf

Author : Miriam Ayafor,Melanie Green
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
Page : 314 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2017-12-15
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027266033

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Cameroon Pidgin English by Miriam Ayafor,Melanie Green Pdf

Cameroon Pidgin English (CPE) is an English-lexified Atlantic expanded pidgin/creole spoken in some form by an estimated 50% of Cameroon’s population, primarily in the anglophone west regions, but also in urban centres throughout the country. Primarily a spoken language, CPE enjoys a vigorous oral presence in Cameroon, and the linguistic examples illustrating this description are drawn from a spoken corpus consisting of a range of text types, including oral narratives, radio broadcasts and spontaneous conversation. The authors’ typologically-framed investigation of the features of the language, from its phonetics, phonology and lexicon to its syntax and discourse structure, allows the reader a clear view of the linguistic character of CPE, offering a comprehensive description of the language that will be of interest to creolists as well as linguists interested in African languages, contact linguistics and comparative linguistics.

Author : Jean-Paul Kouega
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 162 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Cameroon
ISBN : STANFORD:36105132478194

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A Dictionary of Cameroon Pidgin English Usage by Jean-Paul Kouega Pdf

Author : Raymond Hickey
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 469 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2014-02-03
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780470656419

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A Dictionary of Varieties of English by Raymond Hickey Pdf

A Dictionary of Varieties of English presents a comprehensive listing of the distinctive dialects and forms of English spoken throughout the contemporary world. Provides an invaluable introduction and guide to current research trends in the field Includes definitions both for the varieties of English and regions they feature, and for terms and concepts derived from a linguistic analysis of these varieties Explores important research issues including the transportation of dialects of English, the rise of ‘New Englishes’, sociolinguistic investigations of various English-speaking locales, and the study of language contact and change. Reflects our increased awareness of global forms of English, and the advances made in the study of varieties of the language in recent decades Creates an invaluable, informative resource for students and scholars alike, spanning the rich and diverse linguistic varieties of the most widely accepted language of international communication

Author : Mark Dike DeLancey,Mark W. Delancey,Rebecca Neh Mbuh
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 831 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2019-06-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781538119686

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Historical Dictionary of the Republic of Cameroon by Mark Dike DeLancey,Mark W. Delancey,Rebecca Neh Mbuh Pdf

Cameroon is a land of much promise, but a land of unfulfilled promises. It has the potential to be an economically developed and democratic society but the struggle to live up to its potential has not gone well. Since independence there have been only two presidents of Cameroon; the current one has been in office since 1982. Endowed with a variety of climates and agricultural environments, numerous minerals and substantial forests, and a dynamic population, this is a country that should be a leader of Africa. Instead, we find a country almost paralyzed by corruption and poor management, a country with a low life expectancy and serious health problems, and a country from which the most talented and highly educated members of the population are emigrating in large numbers. To all of this is recently added a serious terrorism problem, Boko Haram, in the north, a separatist movement in the Anglophone west, refugee influxes in the north and east, and bandits from the Central African Republic attacking eastern villages. This fifth edition of Historical Dictionary of the Republic of Cameroon contains a chronology, an introduction, and an extensive bibliography. The dictionary section has over 300 cross-referenced entries on important personalities, politics, economy, foreign relations, religion, and culture. This book is an excellent resource for students, researchers, and anyone wanting to know more about the Republic of Cameroon.

Author : Eric A. Anchimbe
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 334 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2012-10-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781614511199

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Language Contact in a Postcolonial Setting by Eric A. Anchimbe Pdf

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.

Author : Hector Fonkoua Kamdem
Publisher : DASK ¿ Duisburger Arbeiten zur Sprach- und Kulturwissenschaft / Duisburg Papers on Research in Language and Culture
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Cameroon
ISBN : 3631659431

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A Dictionary of Camfranglais by Hector Fonkoua Kamdem Pdf

This book is a dictionary of Camfranglais, which presents the lexicon and uses of this sociolect. Lexico-semantic manipulation is presented. Camfranglais is diachronically presented. The major strength of this book is the fact that it does all necessary lexical manipulations before drawing any conclusions.

Author : Nkemngong Nkengasong
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 175 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2016-01-14
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781443887540

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A Grammar of Cameroonian Pidgin by Nkemngong Nkengasong Pdf

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.

Author : Mark Dike DeLancey,Rebecca Neh Mbuh,Mark W. Delancey
Publisher : Scarecrow Press
Page : 532 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2010-05-03
Category : History
ISBN : 9780810873995

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Historical Dictionary of the Republic of Cameroon by Mark Dike DeLancey,Rebecca Neh Mbuh,Mark W. Delancey Pdf

Cameroon is a country endowed with a variety of climates and agricultural environments, numerous minerals, substantial forests, and a dynamic population. It is a country that should be a leader of Africa. Instead, we find a country almost paralyzed by corruption and poor management, a country with a low life expectancy and serious health problems, and a country from which the most talented and highly educated members of the population are emigrating in large numbers. Although Cameroon has made economic progress since independence, it has not been able to change the dependent nature of its economy. The economic situation combined with the dismal record of its political history, indicate that prospects for political stability, justice, and prosperity are dimmer than they have been for most of the country's independent existence. The fourth edition of the Historical Dictionary of the Republic of Cameroon has been updated to reflect advances in the study of Cameroon's history as well as to provide coverage of the years since the last edition. It relates the turbulent history of Cameroon through a chronology, an introductory essay, a bibliography, and over 600 cross-referenced dictionary entries on significant persons, events, places, organizations, and other aspects of Cameroon history from the earliest times to the present.

Author : Olga M. Karpova,Faina I. Kartashkova
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 335 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2014-08-11
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781443865630

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Multi-disciplinary Lexicography by Olga M. Karpova,Faina I. Kartashkova Pdf

The present book is based on presentations made during the IXth International School on Lexicography, “Multi-disciplinary Lexicography: Traditions and Challenges of the XXIst Century”, at Ivanovo State University, September 8–10, 2011, and continues a series of collective monographs devoted to the theoretical and practical problems of lexicography, published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing in 2007, 2009 and 2010. The scope of topics discussed in four parts (Dictionary as a Cross-road of Language and Culture, Dictionary Use and Dictionary Criticism, Terminology and LSP Studies, and Projects of New Dictionaries) is rather wide and focuses on burning problems of European, Russian and world lexicography, as well as on projects of new dictionaries. This book will be of interest to theoreticians, practitioners, and students of linguistic faculties.

Author : Wuteh Vakunta
Publisher : African Books Collective
Page : 206 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2014-05-02
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9789956791354

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The Life and Times of a Cameroonian Icon: Tribute to Lapiro De Mbanga Ngata Man by Wuteh Vakunta Pdf

This book is the celebration of one man's vendetta against a cancerous regime that thrives on the rape of democracy and human rights abuses. Lapiro de Mbanga, born Lambo Sandjo Pierre Roger on April 7, 1957 was a conduit for social change. He fought for change in his homeland and died fighting for change in Cameroon. Lapiro believed in the innate goodness of man but also had the conviction that absolute power corrupts absolutely. He was noted for contending that "power creates monsters." His entire musical career was devoted to fighting the cause of the downtrodden in Cameroon. He composed satirical songs on the socio-economic dysphonia in his beleaguered country. In his songs, he articulated the daily travails of the man in the street and the government-orchestrated injustices he witnessed. As a songwriter, Lapiro de Mbanga distinguished himself from his peers through bravado, valiance and the courage to say overtly what many a Cameroonian musician would only mumble in the privacy of their homes. Lapiro's anti-establishment music led to his arrest and imprisonment in September 2009 for three years. Released from prison on April 8, 2011 he was later given political asylum by the USA. On September 2, 2012 Lapiro relocated with some members of his family to Buffalo in New York where he died on March 16, 2014 after an illness. His revolutionary music and fighting spirit live on.

Author : Eric A. Anchimbe
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2013-01-07
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027272416

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Language Policy and Identity Construction by Eric A. Anchimbe Pdf

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.

Author : Aloysius Ngefac
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2016-08-17
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781443899017

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Sociolinguistic and Structural Aspects of Cameroon Creole English by Aloysius Ngefac Pdf

Based on current data, the book provides a detailed sociolinguistic and structural description of Cameroon Creole English, with a special focus on aspects that are often used in creolistic literature as putative defining features of bona fide prototypical creoles. It is the first comprehensive research monograph on the language that describes and situates its sociolinguistic and structural aspects within the context of current creolistic debate and answers the following unanswered questions: How is the evolutionary trajectory of the language and which theory of pidgins and creoles genesis best accounts for its origin and development? What is its current sociolinguistic status? Is the language a pidgin or a creole? What is the typological distance between the language and its main lexifier? What is its relationship with the other West African contact languages and other creole languages? In spite of the controversy that characterizes the field of creolistics regarding the defining characteristics of pidgins and creoles, the book suggests, for instance, that, if the different routes to creolization are recognized, it will be much easier to come up with putative characteristics that define the developmental status of any contact language, as is the case with Cameroon Creole English.