New Views On Cameroon English

Author : Martin Liboska
Publisher : GRIN Verlag
Page : 31 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2004-10-03
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9783638311144

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New Views on Cameroon English by Martin Liboska Pdf

Seminar paper from the year 2004 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Linguistics, grade: good+, University of Duisburg-Essen (Institute for Foreign Language Philology - Anglistics/American Studies), course: Hauptseminar "English Varieties", language: English, abstract: English in West Africa is a complex field of investigation in the broader context of the “World Englishes”. For many years, researchers have focused on linguistic characteristics of the numerous varieties of English in this area and mostly subsumed them under the label “English in Africa” or “West African English” (WAE) (e.g., Spencer 1971; Todd 1984b; Kachru 1995, Schmied 1991). Only little attention has been paid to the single national varieties1 including Cameroon English (henceforth CamE), which is in fact a very interesting case for sociolinguistic analysis due to its status as a co-official language beside French in a multilingual environment. This paper aims to show that new approaches to the national West African varieties, in this case CamE, try to fill the gap of comparative research in this linguistic area. The first part of this paper shall introduce the reader to the complexity of the linguistic situation in West Africa in general. The status, function, and use of English in the anglophone West African countries will be determined in chapter 2. Then I will give an overview about the development of the two most important varieties of English spoken there, namely Pidgin English (PE) and WAE. This chapter will therefore serve as a basis of knowledge for the third chapter, which is the main part of this paper and deals with the new approach of Hans-Georg Wolf (2001) to “English in Cameroon”. By showing the results of the author’s study about the extraordinary sociolinguistic situation in Cameroon on the one hand and the lexical peculiarities of CamE on the other hand, I will support his main thesis, which classifies CamE as a distinct national variety within the linguistic region of West Africa. Finally, I will draw a conclusion and give proposals for further studies in this field of investigation.

Author : A. Ambanasom
Publisher : African Books Collective
Page : 362 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2013-02-17
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9789956790500

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Perspectives on Written Cameroon Literature in English by A. Ambanasom Pdf

In 2009, Anglophone Cameroon literature celebrated its fifty years of existence. Now at the mature age of fifty plus this literature has a great deal to write home about even if it still has a lot to do in its pursuit of excellence. Part of its maturity resides in the fact that although the scale of literary creativity and literary criticism is skewed in favour of the former, Anglophone Cameroon literary criticism is gradually waking up from slumber in an attempt to catch up with the rapidly expanding creativity. The essays in this book comment practically on some aspects of all the genres of written literature that the Anglophone Cameroon creative writers have produced so far: the novel, drama, poetry, the short story, the essay and childrens literature. The essays, on the whole, are a testimony of the transition and reality from the apparent drought of Anglophone Cameroon literary paucity to the actual fruitful period of Anglophone Cameroon abundance of literary creativity. The Anglophone Cameroonians have appropriated an imperial language, English, to serve their postcolonial Cameroonian vision. Their various literary texts are vehicles of representations that are essentially cultural and ideological constructs. The works examined are initially anchored on Cameroonian experiences to take on social significance. As they are grounded on moving human experiences, these works necessarily make references to the immediate Cameroonian environment of their authors before taking on universal human significance. The book abundantly evidences and crowns Shadrach Ambanasoms achievements and reputation as a skilled pedagogue on the art of practical literary criticism.

Author : Emmanuel Chia,Joseph Che Suh,Alexandre Ndeffo Tene
Publisher : African Books Collective
Page : 182 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Cameroon
ISBN : 9789956558445

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Perspectives on Translation and Interpretation in Cameroon by Emmanuel Chia,Joseph Che Suh,Alexandre Ndeffo Tene Pdf

Perspectives on Translation and Interpretation in Cameroon is the first volume of a book series of the Advanced School of Translators and Interpreters (ASTI) of the University of Buea. It opens a window into the wide dynamic and interesting area of translation and interpretation in a multilingual Cameroon that had on the eve of independence and unification opted for official bilingualism in French and English. The book comprises contributions from scholars of translation in the broad area of translation, comprising: the concept of translation and its pedagogy, the history of translation and, the state of the art of translation as a discipline, profession and practice. The book also focuses on acquisition of translation competences through training, and chronicles the history of translation in Cameroon through the contributions of both Cameroonian and European actors from the German through the French and English colonial periods to the postcolonial present in their minutia. Rich, original and comprehensive, the book is a timely and invaluable contribution to the growing community of translators and interpreters in Africa and globally.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Cuvillier Verlag
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2006-03-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783736918146

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Intonational Meaning in Cameroon English Discourse by Anonim Pdf

Author : Yves Talla Sando Ouafeu
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 217 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : English language
ISBN : OCLC:667100544

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Intonational Meaning in Cameroon English Discourse by Yves Talla Sando Ouafeu Pdf

Author : Jean-Germain Gros
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Cameroon
ISBN : UOM:39076002342421

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Cameroon by Jean-Germain Gros Pdf

Annotation "By its geography and diversity Cameroon has been called ""Africa's Crossroads."" Without a doubt, the vibrancy of Cameroon society and the richness of its culture attest to the merit of the moniker. Less remarkable has been Cameroon's attempt to democratize"

Author : Miriam Ayafor,Melanie Green
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
Page : 314 pages
File Size : 54,8 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 : Hansel Ndumbe Eyoh,Albert Azeyeh,Nalova Lyonga
Publisher : African Books Collective
Page : 569 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9789956790814

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Critical Perspectives on Cameroon Writing by Hansel Ndumbe Eyoh,Albert Azeyeh,Nalova Lyonga Pdf

This landmark volume brings together a very rich harvest of forty critical essays on Cameroon literature by Cameroon literary scholars. The book is the result of the Second Conference on Cameroon Literature which took place at the University of Buea in 1994. The Buea conference was motivated by a determination to look at Cameroon literature straight into its face and criticize it using literary criteria of the strictest kind. Gone were the times when the criticism was complacent because it was believed that a nascent literature could easily be stifled by application of rather strict cannons of literary criticism. Both writers and critics had a lot to say. Subjects dealt with ranged from general topics on literature, survival and national identity, through specialized articles on prose, poetry, drama, translation, language, folklore, children's literature, Journalism and politics. It is the hope of the volume editors that the publication of these papers will instigate the kind of actions that were recommended and that the prolific nature of Cameroon literature will equally give rise to a prolific and robust criticism.

Author : Hans-Georg Wolf
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 372 pages
File Size : 49,6 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 : Jacqueline-Bethel Tchouta Mougoué
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 347 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : HISTORY
ISBN : 9780472054138

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Gender, Separatist Politics, and Embodied Nationalism in Cameroon by Jacqueline-Bethel Tchouta Mougoué Pdf

Fresh insights into gendered politics in Cameroon

Author : Anne Schröder
Publisher : Gunter Narr Verlag
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 45,5 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 : Aloysius Ngefac
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2022-02-08
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781527580299

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Aspects of Cameroon Englishes by Aloysius Ngefac Pdf

In spite of the fact that World Englishes theorizing projects a monolithic picture of English in Cameroon by focusing mostly on Cameroon Anglophone English (generally called Cameroon English), this book argues, with empirical evidence, that Cameroon harbours different world Englishes that display different realities and different describable aspects and trends, a complicated sociolinguistic scenario that challenges nation-based World Englishes paradigms. The book will be indispensable for different stakeholders, including scholars of World Englishes, general linguists, sociolinguists, creolists, phonologists, syntacticians, pedagogues, and students. In addition to describing the sociolinguistic and typological hallmarks of the different world Englishes that hold sway in Cameroon and highlighting their variety-specific peculiarities, the book further evaluates the plausibility and applicability of nation-based World Englishes paradigms in Cameroon, a country whose complex sociolinguistic landscape is comparable only to that of South Africa.

Author : Alexandra Esimaje,Bertus van Rooy,'Demola Jolayemi,Daniel Nkemleke,Ernest Klu
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 315 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2023-05-23
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781000872262

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African Perspectives on the Teaching and Learning of English in Higher Education by Alexandra Esimaje,Bertus van Rooy,'Demola Jolayemi,Daniel Nkemleke,Ernest Klu Pdf

This book brings together the work of African scholars and educators directly involved in initiatives to improve the teaching and learning of English in higher education across Africa. Offering alternative perspectives across different African countries with examples of decolonised practice in research, the book provides a critical discussion and examples of successful practice in the teaching of English in Africa. Each chapter of the book reports on a specific context and a specific teaching and/or learning initiative in higher education, with emphasis on comparability of information and on clear evaluation and critical analysis of the intervention. The editors offer a thoughtful comparison of different methods, strategies and results to provide an authoritative reference to effective strategies for English teaching and learning. The book paints a cohesive picture of the field of English language teaching in Africa and will be of great interest to researchers, scholars and postgraduate students in the areas of applied linguistics, English teaching and comparative education.

Author : Aloysius Ngefac
Publisher : Peter Lang
Page : 182 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 1433103907

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Social Differentiation in Cameroon English by Aloysius Ngefac Pdf

Social Differentiation in Cameroon English investigates the correlation between some extra-linguistic variables (gender, age, level of education, ethnicity, regionality, occupation, and mood) and phonological variables in a New English setting that is sociolinguistically and culturally different from most Western contexts. The investigation reveals that the type of correlation patterns between linguistic and sociolinguistic variables reported in the Western world are lacking in Cameroon because of contextual factors and the fact that English Language Teaching (ELT) goals in Cameroon continue to be based on Inner Circle English norms. It is therefore predicted that if mainstream Cameroon English is promoted and standardized and Cameroonian speakers of English are evaluated in terms of their knowledge of Cameroon Standard English, some of the correlation patterns reported in the Western world can equally be observable in Cameroon.

Author : Ndimele, Ozo-mekuri
Publisher : M & J Grand Orbit Communications
Page : 908 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2016-02-22
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789785412703

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Convergence: English and Nigerian Languages by Ndimele, Ozo-mekuri Pdf

The present volume, which is the 5th in the Nigerian Linguists Festschrift Series, is devoted to Professor Munzali A. Jibril, a celebrated icon in university administration, and an erudite Professor of English Linguistics. The title of this special edition was specifically chosen to crown Professor Jibril’s academic prowess in both English and indigenous Nigerian languages, and to mark and laud his official departure from active university lectureship. 72 assessed papers are included from the many submitted. Papers cover the main theme of the volume, i.e. the interaction between English and indigenous Nigerian languages, and there are a number of papers on other secular areas of linguistics such as: language and history, language planning and policy, language documentation, language engineering, lexicography, translation, gender studies, language acquisition, language teaching and learning, pragmatics, discourse and conversational analysis, and literature in English and African languages. There is also a rich section devoted to the major ‘traditional’ fields of linguistics - phonology, morphology, syntax and semantics.