TY - BOOK ID - 505667 TI - Language contact in a postcolonial setting : the linguistic and social context of English and Pidgin in Cameroon PY - 2012 SN - 9781614512486 9781614511199 1614511195 1614512485 1283857308 9781283857307 PB - Boston, Mass. De Gruyter Mouton DB - UniCat KW - Pidgin KW - English language KW - Sociolinguistics KW - Cameroon KW - Pidgin languages KW - Languages in contact KW - Postcolonialism. KW - Post-colonialism KW - Postcolonial theory KW - Political science KW - Decolonization KW - Language and languages KW - Language and society KW - Society and language KW - Sociology of language KW - Language and culture KW - Linguistics KW - Sociology KW - Integrational linguistics (Oxford school) KW - Areal linguistics KW - Contact vernaculars KW - Hybrid languages KW - Jargons KW - Pidgeon languages KW - Pigeon languages KW - Lingua francas KW - Languages, Mixed KW - Germanic languages KW - Social aspects KW - Sociological aspects KW - Languages. KW - Cameroon. KW - Indigenization. KW - Language Contact. KW - Nativization. KW - Sociolinguistics. KW - Varieties of English. KW - Sociolinguistique UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:505667 AB - 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. ER -