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Title: | Linguistic choices in postcolonial multilingual Cameroon |
Author: | Ngefac, Aloysius |
Year: | 2010 |
Periodical: | Nordic Journal of African Studies (ISSN 1459-9465) |
Volume: | 19 |
Issue: | 3 |
Pages: | 149-164 |
Language: | English |
Geographic term: | Cameroon |
Subjects: | multilingualism attitudes sociolinguistics |
External link: | https://njas.fi/njas/article/view/200/191 |
Abstract: | In a complex postcolonial multilingual context, such as Cameroon, many languages are available to the speakers and even compete to be used. Previous studies have examined attitudes and perceptions of Cameroonians within the dynamics of the two colonial languages, English and French, which serve as the official languages of Cameroon. Similar attitudinal tendencies, which prevail in Cameroon in relation to such languages as Camfranglais, Mbokotok and Kamtok, are still to be investigated. This study therefore sets out to investigate choices speakers make as far as the different languages spoken in Cameroon are concerned, notably Kamtok, Camfranglais, indigenous languages, Mbokotok, English and French, the reasons for choosing to speak or for choosing to reject certain languages and attitudinal tendencies that ensue from the choices. The language choices are investigated in relation to some sociolinguistic factors, focusing on linguistic background (Anglophone or Francophone) and age. Bibliogr., note, sum. [Journal abstract] |