Language Contact in a Postcolonial Setting
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Edited by:
Eric A. Anchimbe
About this book
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 / Editor information
Eric A. Anchimbe, University of Bayreuth, Germany.
Reviews
"In sum, this volume sheds new light on different aspects of both CamE and CPE and provides the reader with original language samples. Moreover, the studies presented by the authors can be further used in the comparative analyses of, for example, aspect-tense-modality markers or reduplication found in pidgins and creoles, and therefore, this work opens new possibilities for further research on CamE, CPE, and other related pidgins and creoles and world Englishes, which is what each new contribution to any field of science should do."
Marcin Walczynski in: Linguist List 24.993
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Frontmatter
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Preface
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Table of contents
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Introduction
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Chapter 1. Language contact in a postcolonial setting: Research approaches to Cameroon English and Cameroon Pidgin English
3 - Part I. Cameroon English: Properties and frameworks
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Chapter 2. The expression of modality in Cameroon English
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Chapter 3. A cognitive sociolinguistic approach to the lexicon of Cameroon English and other world Englishes
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Chapter 4. Reading Cameroon English phonology through the Trilateral Process
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Chapter 5. One variety, di¤erent ethnic tongues: A phonological perspective on Nso’ English
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Chapter 6. The filtration processes in Cameroon English
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Chapter 7. Language choice, identity, and power in the Cameroonian parliament
141 - Part II. Cameroon Pidgin English: Properties and history
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Chapter 8. Tense and aspect in Cameroon Pidgin English
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Chapter 9. Reduplication in Cameroon Pidgin English: Formal and functional perspectives
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Chapter 10. Pronouns in Cameroon Pidgin English
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Chapter 11. Gud Nyus fo Pidgin?: Bible translation as language elaboration in Cameroon Pidgin English
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Chapter 12. German colonial influences on, and representations of, Cameroon Pidgin English
269 - Part III. Texts and more texts
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Written and oral samples of Cameroon English and Cameroon Pidgin English
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Contributors
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Author index
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Subject index
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