Language contact in a postcolonial setting : the linguistic and social context of English and Pidgin in Cameroon /

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Imprint:	Berlin ; Boston : De Gruyter Mouton, [2012] ©2012
Description:	1 online resource (x, 323 pages) : illustrations.
Language:	English
Series:	Language contact and bilingualism ; 4 Language Contact and Bilingualism [LCB]
Subject:	English language -- Cameroon. Pidgin languages -- Cameroon. Languages in contact -- Cameroon. Sociolinguistics -- Cameroon. Postcolonialism. English language. Language and languages. Languages in contact. Pidgin languages. Postcolonialism. Sociolinguistics. Cameroon -- Languages. Cameroon. Electronic books.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11268315

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Other authors / contributors:	Anchimbe, Eric A.
ISBN:	9781614511199 1614511195 9781614511199 9781614512486 1614512485 1283857308 9781283857307
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and indexes. In English.
Summary:	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.
Other form:	Print version: 9781614512486 1614512485
Standard no.:	10.1515/9781614511199

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