Language Contact in a Postcolonial Setting: The Linguistic and Social Context of English and Pidgin in Cameroon - Couverture rigide

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 1614512485 ISBN 13 : 9781614512486

Editeur : De Gruyter Mouton, 2012

Synopsis

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.

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

Eric A. Anchimbe, University of Bayreuth, Germany.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: De Gruyter Mouton
• Date d'édition: 2012
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1614512485
• ISBN 13: 9781614512486
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 333
• Éditeur: Anchimbe Eric A.
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: Buchpark GmbH; gpsr@buchpark.de; ; Krügerweg 1; Trebbin; Brandenburg; 14959; Allemagne