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Language Contact in a Postcolonial Setting

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This series offers a wide forum for work on contact linguistics, using an integrated approach to both diachronic and synchronic manifestations of contact, ranging from social and individual as...
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  • 14 September 2012
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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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Price: $210.00
Pages: 333
Publisher: De Gruyter
Imprint: De Gruyter Mouton
Publication Date: 14 September 2012
ISBN: 9781614512486
Format: Hardcover
BISACs: FOR000000 FOREIGN LANGUAGE STUDY / General, LAN009010 LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / Historical & Comparative, LAN009050 LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / Sociolinguistics
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Eric A. Anchimbe, University of Bayreuth, Germany.