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Aspects of Cameroon Englishes
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.
African Englishes
This book investigates the functions and linguistic forms of African Englishes, and what this means for languages indigenous to Africa. It examines the historical imposition of English on the continent, as part of a broader project of cultural imperialism, and traces its transformation from a colonial tool to a dynamic and diverse language, examining its set of contemporary usage patterns, and its likely future directions. Thorough diverse critical approaches, this book unpacks how language contact has given rise to distinct variations including second language varieties, pidgins and creoles, that are moulded by Africa ́s linguistic and cultural diversity. Drawing on case studies from West,...
Linguistic Landscape in a Multilingual Cameroon
This book investigates the Linguistic Landscape (LL) of Cameroon, a heavily multilingual postcolonial context. Specifically, it examines the sociolinguistic, pragmatic, and cognitive aspects of signpost messages in Buea, Douala, Yaounde, and Dschang. The book stems from the observation that messages displayed on signposts in Cameroon reveal significant sociolinguistic information about the nation. The investigation is therefore couched in the premise that the messages displayed on signposts in Cameroon constitute a window to the sociolinguistic landscape of the country. Through observation, photographing, questionnaires, and interviews, a total number of 1500 signpost messages targeted for the investigation together with one hundred and seventy (170) interview responses from some authors of the messages were collected. These data were analysed both quantitatively and qualitatively from the perspectives of the sociolinguistic approach, pragmatic approach, and Construction Grammar approach to world Englishes, revealing multidimensional findings.
