Ubanako, Valentine N.

Crossing Linguistic Borders in Postcolonial Anglophone Africa. - 1st ed. - 1 online resource (363 pages)

Intro -- TABLE OF CONTENTS -- EDITORIAL ADVISORY BOARD -- PREFACE -- INTRODUCTION -- PART 1 -- UNDERSTANDING CAMEROON PHONEOLOGY -- SOME NON-INTERFERENCE SOURCESOF CAMEROON ENGLISH USAGES -- THE COUSIN LANGUAGES OF AFRICA -- CAMEROON PIDGINCREOLE (CPC) -- PART 2 -- INDIGENISATION OF ENGLISHIN GHANAIAN LITERATURE -- THEM VERSUS US -- BETWEEN ROCKS AND HARD PLACES -- UNOFFICIAL LANGUAGE POLICYAND LANGUAGE PLANNING IN POSTCOLONIALCAMEROON -- PART 3 -- INTERACTIVE MONOLOGUES ON FM RADIOSTATIONS IN KENYA -- CHOIX DE CODE ET DISCOURS FUNERAIRESAU CAMEROUN -- SOME DISFLUENCIES IN THE TRANSLATIONAND INTERPRETATION OF POLITICALNEOLOGISMS IN AN EMERGINGPLURALISTIC DEMOCRACY -- NON-STANDARD IDIOMS IN CAMEROONENGLISH LITERATURE AND ISSUESOF INTELLIGIBILITY -- PART 4 -- IDENTITY BANKRUPTCY AND EDUCATIONALDEFICITS IN CONTEMPORARY CAMEROON -- ENSEIGNEMENT DU FRANÇAIS AU NIGERIA -- CONTEXT AND THE EFFECTS OF EXPLICITINSTRUCTION ON DIFFERENT LANGUAGESTRUCTURES -- CONTRIBUTORS.

The papers collected in this volume discuss applied, pedagogical and ideological issues related to language use in selected countries in post-colonial Anglophone Africa. The collection represents new voices in linguistics from Cameroon, Ghana, Kenya and Nigeria, and is structured in four sections, covering the following themes: •languages in contact •language identity, ideology and policy •communication and issues of intelligibility •language in education The volume discusses the lingui.

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Language and languages.
Linguistics.
Sociolinguistics.


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