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Linguistic Landscapes and Multilingualism in Yaoundé, Cameroon - Sociolinguistic and socio-cognitive processes at work

English · Hardback

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Linguistic Landscape studies examine language(s) in public spaces. This study focuses on the interplay of language, space and sociocultural context: Yaoundé's Linguistic Landscape is examined with respect to its multilingual and multimodal nature. Next to a sociolinguistic framework, a (socio)cognitive analysis is also put centre stage.

List of contents

Introduction - Cameroon's colonial past and its present sociolinguistic situation: Language policy, diversity and the marginalisation of languages - Approaching the linguistic landscape - LL tokens, and multimodality in the African context(s)- Setting the scene: The research site and methodology - Types of signs in the linguistic landscape: Towards a cognitive-functional approach - Multilingualism and the linguistic landscape: Multilingual signs, language contact and translanguaging - Culture and the linguistic landscape: Local language use and other semiotic representations - Governmental signs and the linguistic landscape: The renegotiation of space, language policy implications and prototypicality -(Multilingual) advertisements and the role of English in Yaoundé's linguistic landscape - Language in the linguistic landscape - A conclusion - References .

About the author










Neele Mundt is a lecturer in English linguistics at the University of Koblenz-Landau, Germany. She works in the field of sociolinguistics with a focus on English in central Africa. She spent one year in Yaoundé, where she collected field data for her research project situated at the juncture of (cognitive) sociolinguistics and linguistic landscape studies in Cameroon. Her research interests include multilingualism, (cognitive) sociolinguistics and applied linguistics in general, and with a focus on Africa in particular.

Product details

Authors Neele Mundt
Assisted by Frank Polzenhagen (Editor)
Publisher Peter Lang
 
Languages English
Product format Hardback
Released 27.10.2022
 
EAN 9783631877203
ISBN 978-3-631-87720-3
No. of pages 288
Dimensions 148 mm x 24 mm x 210 mm
Weight 512 g
Illustrations 86 Abb.
Series DASK - Duisburger Arbeiten zur Sprach- und Kulturwissenschaft / Duisburg Papers on Research in Language and Culture
DASK ¿ Duisburger Arbeiten zur Sprach- und Kulturwissenschaft / Duisburg Papers on Research in Language and Culture
Subject Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > Other languages / Other literatures

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