Sociolinguistic and Structural Aspects of Cameroon Creole English

Aloysius Ngefac (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

250 Seiten

2016 | Unabridged edition
Cambridge Scholars Publishing (Verlag)
9781443897228 (ISBN)

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Based on current data, the book provides a detailed sociolinguistic and structural description of Cameroon Creole English, with a special focus on aspects that are often used in creolistic literature as putative defining features of bona fide prototypical creoles. It is the first comprehensive research monograph on the language that describes and situates its sociolinguistic and structural aspects within the context of current creolistic debate and answers the following unanswered questions: How is the evolutionary trajectory of the language and which theory of pidgins and creoles genesis best accounts for its origin and development? What is its current sociolinguistic status? Is the language a pidgin or a creole? What is the typological distance between the language and its main lexifier? What is its relationship with the other West African contact languages and other creole languages? In spite of the controversy that characterizes the field of creolistics regarding the defining characteristics of pidgins and creoles, the book suggests, for instance, that, if the different routes to creolization are recognized, it will be much easier to come up with putative characteristics that define the developmental status of any contact language, as is the case with Cameroon Creole English.

Aloysius Ngefac is Associate Professor of English and Sociolinguistics at the Higher Teacher Training College Yaounde of the University of Yaounde 1, where he earned his PhD. He is the recipient of a number of awards and scholarships, including Alexander von Humboldt Fellowship, Fulbright Postdoctoral Scholarship, and DAAD (German Academic Exchange Service). He is the author of Social Differentiation in Cameroon English (Peter Lang, New York, 2008) and many scholarly articles.

Erscheinungsdatum	07.11.2016
Verlagsort	Newcastle upon Tyne
Sprache	englisch
Maße	148 x 212 mm
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Sprachwissenschaft
ISBN-13	9781443897228 / 9781443897228
Zustand	Neuware