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| Title: | Africa Meets Europe
: Language Contact in West Africa |
| Author: | George Echu & Samuel Gyasi Obeng (eds) |
| ISBN: | 1590339517 : 9781590339510 |
| Format: | Hardback |
| Size: | 180x260mm |
| Pages: | 204 |
| Weight: | .662 Kg. |
| Published: | Nova Science Publishers - June 2004 |
| List Price: | 43.5 Pounds Sterling |
| Availability: | In Print |
| Subjects: | LANGUAGE & LINGUISTICS: AFRICA: French |
The papers in this volume fall under two main themes. The first deals broadly with multilingualism and language contact in West Africa in general and Cameroon in particular. Important topics discussed in this section include: the structure and discursive use(s) of the various forms and uses of Pidgin English, the ways the French language and African languages have influenced each other through loaning (both direct and indirect) and a description of local forms of "Africanised European" languages (especially French). The second part concerns language teaching and learning in contact situations. Important topics discussed under this section include: multilingualism and second language acquisition, interference, a lexical appraisal of the language of second (third) language learners, and the influence of European languages on the learning of other European languages in West Africa.
CONTENTS: Prologue; Introduction; West African Languages in Contact with European Languages; Pidgin English in Cameroon: A Veritable Linguistic Menu; L'enrichissement du Français en Milieu Fulfulde au Cameroun; Emprunts au Pidgin-English dans le Français du Cameroun: Situation et Apports; Indirect Borrowing: A Source of Lexical Expansion; Le Phonetisme du Français Oral en Milieu Tupuri au Nord Cameroun; Problematique de la Composition Nominale Toponymique dans les Enseignes Publicitaires Camerounaises; La Siglaison Comme L'Expression de la Cohabitation du Français et de L'Anglais au Cameroun; Multiligualism and Second Language Acquisition in the Northern Mandara Mountains of Cameroon; L'Allemande et le Français en Contact: Quelques Erreurs D'Interference des Apprenants Camerounais de L'Allemand; The English of French-Speaking Cameroonians: A Lexical Appraisal; L'Influence du Français dans L'Apprentissage de L'Espagnol Comme Langue Etrangere au Cameroun; Contacts/Conflits des Langues, Insecurite Linguistique et Implications Didactiques au Cameroun; Epilogue; Index.
