Cameroon Pidgin English

Author : Miriam Ayafor,Melanie Green
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
Page : 314 pages
File Size : 53,6 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 : Nkemngong Nkengasong
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 175 pages
File Size : 54,9 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 : Jean-Paul Kouega
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 162 pages
File Size : 41,8 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 : Miriam Ayafor,Melanie J. Green
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : Cameroon
ISBN : OCLC:1352452436

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Cameroon Pidgin English by Miriam Ayafor,Melanie J. 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 : Eric A. Anchimbe
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 334 pages
File Size : 45,8 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 : Wuteh Vakunta
Publisher : African Books Collective
Page : 162 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2015-09-23
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9789956762446

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Tori Shweet for Cameroon Pidgin English by Wuteh Vakunta Pdf

Tori Shweet for Cameroon Pidgin English is a compendium of short stories written in Cameroons most widely spoken lingua franca commonly called Cameroon Pidgin English (CPE). The grassfields of Cameroon serves as the nursery where these culturally enriched stories are nurtured. The collection comprises animal trickster tales, bird survival tales and human-interest stories. In conformity with the philosophy of French novelist, Stendhal, this anthology of short stories is a mirror that reflects the folklore and mores of the ethnic groups that constitute the grassland region of Cameroon. It serves as a window to the worldview, mindset and value systems of the grafi.

Author : Magnus Huber
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 1999-01-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027248824

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Ghanaian Pidgin English in Its West African Context by Magnus Huber Pdf

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 : David Bellama,Solomon Nkwele,Joseph Yudom
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 116 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 1983
Category : Language and languages
ISBN : STANFORD:36105039761387

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An Introduction to Cameroonian Pidgin by David Bellama,Solomon Nkwele,Joseph Yudom Pdf

Author : Anne Schröder
Publisher : Gunter Narr Verlag
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Cameroon
ISBN : 3823358219

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Status, Functions, and Prospects of Pidgin English by Anne Schröder Pdf

"[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 : Kofi Yakpo
Publisher : Language Science Press
Page : 645 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2024-06-26
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9783961101337

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A grammar of Pichi by Kofi Yakpo Pdf

Pichi is an Afro-Caribbean English-lexifier Creole spoken on the island of Bioko, Equatorial Guinea. It is an offshoot of 19th century Krio (Sierra Leone) and shares many characteristics with West African relatives like Nigerian Pidgin, Cameroon Pidgin, and Ghanaian Pidgin English, as well as with the English-lexifier creoles of the insular and continental Caribbean. This comprehensive description presents a detailed analysis of the grammar and phonology of Pichi. It also includes a collection of texts and wordlists. Pichi features a nominative-accusative alignment, SVO word order, adjective-noun order, prenominal determiners, and prepositions. The language has a seven-vowel system and twenty-two consonant phonemes. Pichi has a two-tone system with tonal minimal pairs, morphological tone, and tonal processes. The morphological structure is largely isolating. Pichi has a rich system of tense-aspect-mood marking, an indicative-subjunctive opposition, and a complex copular system with several suppletive forms. Many features align Pichi with the Atlantic-Congo languages spoken in the West African littoral zone. At the same time, characteristics like the prenominal position of adjectives and determiners show a typological overlap with its lexifier English, while extensive contact with Spanish has left an imprint on the lexicon and grammar as well.

Author : Peter W. Vakunta
Publisher : African Books Collective
Page : 77 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Cameroon
ISBN : 9789956558612

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Majunga Tok by Peter W. Vakunta Pdf

Pidgin English is the chief medium of communication for the great majority of Cameroonians. It sustains a world view, culture and way of life. Pidgin embodies concepts that would at best be partially expressed in formal English. A critical understanding of Pidgin English requires not only a thorough grasp of the socio-cultural matrix from which the words and expressions originate but also an immersion in an Afro-centric worldview. Majunga Tok: Poems in Pidgin English is the poet's attempt at capturing these speech patterns of ordinary Cameroonians in written form. Pidgin English, also called broken English, is a lingua franca spoken not only in Cameroon but also in many West African countries, including Nigeria, Ghana, Sierra Leone and Liberia amonst others. This poetry anthology is inspired by the poet's desire to salvage a language that has been subjected to multiple forms of denigration because it is oral. In Cameroon, for instance, Pidgin English has been the target of myriad attacks from self-styled linguistic purists who claim that Pidgin is a bastardized variant of Standard English and, therefore, should not be allowed to thrive. The controversy and denigration directed at Amos Tutuola and his Pidgin English creative genius are vivid examples. This condescending attitude of speakers of Standard English stems from the fact that Pidgin is often associated with illiteracy.

Author : Vakunta, Peter Wuteh
Publisher : Langaa RPCIG
Page : 116 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2015-05-10
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9789956792238

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Poems from Abakwa in Cameroon Pidgin English by Vakunta, Peter Wuteh Pdf

"Poems from Abakwa in Cameroon Pidgin English is one patriotic rage. An anthology of sorts, this book of poems contains wisdom, inspirational reflections and witticisms for all. Through apt descriptions, illustrations, dialogues, interrogations and incisive phraseology, Peter Wuteh Vakunta creates an effective balance of colorful images that traces and documents disturbing accounts and evidences of corruption, greed, skewed values and life experiences that have assaulted his fatherland, betrayed political leaders and institutions, court judges, and parliamentarians as the police-cum-military continue to put their ambitions above the country's needs while forsaking future leaders-children. Vakunta describes how civil servants represent selfish interests and aspirations. Judges are intimidated as the nation's laws continue to be transgressed. The police and military continue to abuse the trust invested in them by civilians and misdirect their patriotism while virtually the entire nation continues to live shaky lives with a punctured integrity. Vakunta does this in popular lingos commonly used by musicians, business folks, and the common man under several labels-pidgin English, Camfranglais, Cam-tok, Camspeak, Majunga tok ..." Dr. Fidelis Achenjang, Union College, USA

Author : Hans-Georg Wolf
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 372 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2013-06-10
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783110849059

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English in Cameroon by Hans-Georg Wolf Pdf

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 : Aloysius Ngefac
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 243 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : Creole dialects, English
ISBN : 1443897221

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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.

Author : Eric A. Anchimbe
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 277 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2013-01-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027218735

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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."