EAN: 9781614512486

LANGUAGE CONTACT IN A POSTCOLONIAL SETTING GEBU...

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.

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