African Multilingualisms

African Multilingualisms

Rural Linguistic and Cultural Diversity

Akumbu, Pius W.; Dissake, Endurence M. K.; Cobbinah, Alexander Yao; Chenemo, Margaret; Di Carlo, Pierpaolo; Agwara, Angiachi D. Esene; Good, Jeff; Atindogbe, Gratien G.; Chie, Esther P.; Assomo, Celestine G.

Lexington Books

05/2022

310

Mole

Inglês

9781498588973

15 a 20 dias

503

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Contents







Preface (Gabriel Mba)



Editors' Preface (Jeff Good and Pierpaolo Di Carlo)



Biographical Notes



Introduction



African Multilingualisms: Understanding the Diversity of Multilingualisms in Sub-Saharan Africa



Pierpaolo Di Carlo and Jeff Good



The Diversity of Multilingualisms in Rural Spaces



1. Multilingualism among the Mbororo of the North-West Region of Cameroon: An Overview



Pius W. Akumbu and Esther P. Chie



2. Nuances in Language Use in Multilingual Settings: Code-Switching or Code Regimentation in Lower Fungom?'



Rachel A. Ojong Diba



3. The So-Called Royal Register of Bafut within the Bafut Language Ecology: Language Ideologies and Multilingualism in the Cameroonian Grassfields



Pierpaolo Di Carlo and Ayu'nwi N. Neba



4. Multilingualism as It Unfolds: Language Vitality in Naturally Occurring Speech in Kelleng, a Rural Setting in Cameroon



Emmanuel Ngue Um, Marguerite G. Makon, and Celestine G. Assomo



5. An Ecological Approach to Ethnic Identity and Language Dynamics in a Multilingual Area (Lower Casamance, Senegal)



Alexander Yao Cobbinah



6. Multilingualism and the Paradox of Language Creation: The Case of Lita (Research Note)



Gratiana Ndamsah



Multilingualisms in Contact



7. Multilingualism in Rural Africa: A Case Study of Ossing Village in Cameroon



Tabe Florence A. E.



8. Spaces and Interactions in Multilingual Repertoire Construction: A Case Study in an Urban Area of Casamance (Senegal)



Ndieme Sow



9. Analyzing Court Discourse in a Multilingual Setting: The Case of the Buea Court of First Instance



Endurence M. K. Dissake and Gratien G. Atindogbe



10. Multilingualism and Language Ideologies in the Context of War: The Case of Refugees from Boko Haram in the Minawao Camp in the Far North Region of Cameroon (Research Note)



Amina N. Goron



Methodologies for the Study of Rural Multilingualisms



11. What an Ethnographically Informed Questionnaire Can Contribute to the Understanding of Traditional Multilingualism Research: Lessons from Lower Fungom



Angiachi D. Esene Agwara



12. Ways to Assess Multilingual Competence in Small, Unwritten Languages: The Case of Lower Fungom



Gabriel Mba and Angela Nsen Tem



13. Essentialism and Indexicality in a Multilingual Rural Community: The Case of Lower Bafut in North-West Cameroon



Margaret Chenemo and Ayu'nwi N. Neba



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African anthropology;African history;African Studies;anthropological linguistics;applied linguistics;Cameroon;Cameroon Pidgin English;ethnographic approaches;language contact;language documentation;linguistic anthropology;Linguistics;methodology in sociolinguistics;multilingualism;research methods;rural Africa;rural multilingualism;rural studies;Senegal;sociolinguistics;sociology of language