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Author : David Bellama,Solomon Nkwele,Joseph Yudom
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 116 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 1983
Category : Language and languages
ISBN : STANFORD:36105039761387
Author : Jean-Paul Kouega
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 162 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Cameroon
ISBN : STANFORD:36105132478194
Author : Nkemngong Nkengasong
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 175 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2016-01-14
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781443887540
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 : Miriam Ayafor,Melanie Green
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
Page : 314 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2017-12-15
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027266033
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 : Eric A. Anchimbe
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 334 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2012-10-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781614511199
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 : Miriam Ayafor,Melanie J. Green
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : Cameroon
ISBN : OCLC:1352452436
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 : Loreto Todd
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 201 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2015-02-11
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781317549932
'Once upon a time' is the English translation of the title of this collection of twenty-eight Pidgin tales from Cameroon in West Africa, first published in 1979. These are richly illustrative of the various folklore genres of the region and are presented in a modified standard orthography, with an English translation facing the original Pidgin text. Notes are provided on each tale with the intention of illuminating some of their unique stylistic and linguistic patterns. The tales are often witty, never protracted, and are pleasurable in their own right. They also provide linguistic and folkloristic material not available elsewhere. In a lengthy introduction, Dr Todd discusses the history of Cameroon and the development and use of Pidgin English there. A simple grammar of Pidgin English is included to aid scholars not already familiar with the language to make full use of the Pidgin texts.
Author : Professor Loreto Todd,Loreto Todd
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 86 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2003-09-02
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 9781134939305
`A marvellous feat of culling major issues and synthesising complex arguments.'- Journal of Linguistics `This slender but meaty volume is a good, solid and current introduction.'-Language in Society
Author : John Holm
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 0521585813
A clear and concise introduction to the study of how new languages come into being.
Author : Susanne Maria Michaelis,Philippe Maurer,Martin Haspelmath,Magnus Huber
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 325 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 9780199691401
The most authoritative guide ever published to the world's pidgin and creole languages. The 3-volume Survey describes their histories and linguistic characteristics. The Atlas of Pidgins and Creoles, published at the same time, shows how 130 linguistic features are distributed among the world's languages.
Author : Aloysius Ngefac
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2016-08-17
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781443899017
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.
Author : Magnus Huber
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 1999-01-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027248824
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.
Author : Hans-Georg Wolf
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 372 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2013-06-10
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783110849059
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.
Author : Anne Schröder
Publisher : Gunter Narr Verlag
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Cameroon
ISBN : 3823358219
"[A]ll interview transcriptions and almost 150 tables with calculations from the quantitative survey are made available on the accompanying CD-ROM."--Page 4 of cover.
Author : Joyce T. Mathangwane,Akin Odebunmi
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 555 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2016-02-08
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781443888516
Essays on Language, Communication and Literature in Africa explores language choice questions, together with domain-driven lingua-communicative and literary resources situated within the discourses of law, culture, medicine, visual art, politics, the media, music and literature in Africa. It identifies the distinctive African paraphernalia of these discourses, and foregrounds their real-world and mediated cultural and societal values, and highlights the Western presence through the inclusion of aspects of Shakespearean perspectives which bear universal tidings and speak to the African gender tradition. The chapters’ attention to verbal and visual artistic communicative mechanisms underlines such engagements as multilingualism policies, socio-political declension, social dynamism and cultural interventions that characterise the African setting. These realities are discussed in impressive detail, authoritative scholastic depth and effective stylistic tones that reflect the authors’ familiarity with the facets of African societies deducible from language, communication and literature.
