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By Eric A. Anchimbe

Descriptions of recent types of ecu languages in postcolonial contexts have concentrated enormously on system-based indigenisation and edition. This volume–while additional illustrating strategies and instantiations of indigenisation at this level–incorporates investigations of sociolinguistic and pragmatic phenomena in day-by-day social interaction–e.g. politeness, admire, praise reaction, naming and handle kinds, and gender–through leading edge analytic frameworks that view indigenisation from emic views. concentrating on postcolonial Cameroon and utilizing typical and questionnaire info, the e-book assesses the salience of linguistic and sociocultural hybridisation prompted by means of colonialism and, lately, globalisation in interplay in and throughout languages and cultures. The authors illustrate how the multilingual nature of the society and contributors’ multilingual repertoires form styles within the indigenisation and evolution of the ex-colonial languages, English and French, and Pidgin English.

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