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Journal articles on the topic "Camfranglais language"

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Kouega, Jean-Paul. "Camfranglais: A novel slang in Cameroon schools." English Today 19, no. 2 (April 2003): 23–29. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0266078403002050.

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Camfranglais is a newly created language, a composite slang used by secondary school pupils in Cameroon, West Africa. It draws its lexicon from French, English, West African Pidgin, various Cameroonian indigenous languages, Latin, and Spanish. Secondary school pupils use it among themselves to exclude outsiders while talking about such matters of adolescent interest as food, drinks, money, sex, and physical looks. There are four sections: language in the Cameroon educational system; Camfranglais defined; an analysis of a sample Camfranglais text; and the semantic domains of Camfranglais. There is a glossary of the terms cited.

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Ubanako, Valentine Njende. "Is ‘Camfranglais’ A New Language? A Review of Current Opinions." International Linguistics Research 4, no. 1 (March 10, 2021): p36. http://dx.doi.org/10.30560/ilr.v4n1p36.

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The language-contact situation in Cameroon, where hundreds of ethnic languages coexist with two official languages and a number of lingua francas, continues to evolve and to produce new usage trends and patterns. One of the outcomes of the dynamism of the linguistic situation in Cameroon is the emergence over the last three decades or so of a new linguistic phenomenon that some researchers have styled “Camfranglais” for the simple reason that it comprises a combination of elements drawn from Cameroon indigenous languages (“cam”), from French (“fran”), and from Pidgin English (“anglai”). What precisely this French acronym refers to in linguistic terms remains fairly controversial as some researchers see in this phenomenon the emergence of a new language while other evidence suggests that ‘Camfranglais’ is certainly a new speech form but not a new language in the strict sense of the term. This paper sets out to review some of the current opinions about Camfranglais with a view to determining if Camfranglais can be considered a language in its own right or simply as a new speech form which can be said to form a continuum with mainstream Cameroon English. It equally highlights the complexities that render this linguistic phenomenon so elusive to definition.

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Vakunta, Peter Wuteh. "On Translating Camfranglais and Other Camerounismes." Meta 53, no. 4 (January 16, 2009): 942–47. http://dx.doi.org/10.7202/019665ar.

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Abstract Post-colonial creative writers constantly resort to creolization and indigenization as modes of linguistic and cultural appropriation. In other words, these writers tend to transpose the imprint of their cultural backgrounds onto their fictional works.This paper addresses the challenges posed by language mixing to the literary translator. Rather than interrogate the theories of translation, the paper seeks to bring new insights to the pragmatics of translation – ways in which the literary translator grapples with meaning discernment and rendition when faced with texts couched in indigenized and hybridized linguistic forms, namely creoles, pidgins, camfranglais, and other forms of hybrid languages. There are clear and obvious benefits in literary indigenization (i.e., a larger audience, self-representation, etc) but how do these benefits transform when these languages are contextualized in literature? In what ways is pidginization complicit or at variance with imperial languages? And what are the ramifications of such complicity or variance for the translator? What forms of discursive agencies are made available through translation?

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Kouega, Jean-Paul. "Word Formative Processes in Camfranglais." World Englishes 22, no. 4 (November 2003): 511–38. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-971x.2003.00316.x.

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Stein-Kanjora, Gardy. "Camfrang forever! Metacommunication in and about Camfranglais." Sociolinguistic Studies 10, no. 1-2 (December 6, 2015): 261–89. http://dx.doi.org/10.1558/sols.v10i1-2.27951.

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Alobwede, Charles Esambe. "THE REPOSSESSION OF A COMPLEX LANGUAGE: THE CASE OF THE FRENCH LANGUAGE IN CAMEROON." International Journal of Research -GRANTHAALAYAH 8, no. 5 (June 8, 2020): 208–20. http://dx.doi.org/10.29121/granthaalayah.v8.i5.2020.134.

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This article sets out to study the evolution of the French language in Cameroon from the period of colonisation to the present. The article focuses in particular on the use of the language during the colonial period and its imposition on Cameroonians through the French policy of assimilation. Contrary to the British policy of indirect rule, France considered its colonies as oversea territories (la France outre-mer) whichss had to speak and write the French language in a manner as prescribed by the Académie Française. Our investigation looks at the evolution of the language after independence and the different varieties that developed from mainstream French: these include Cameroon popular French (CPF) or the social variety, and a hybrid variety (camfranglais) used mostly by the younger generation of Cameroonians. We aim at evaluating the influence of the latter variety, in order to analyse the radical transformation process that the French language is experiencing in French Africa in general and in Cameroon in particular. The article aims at validating our hypothesis that the French language as used in Cameroon is a repossession of a very complex language.

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Alobwede, Charles Esambe. "THE REPOSSESSION OF A COMPLEX LANGUAGE: THE CASE OF THE FRENCH LANGUAGE IN CAMEROON." International Journal of Research -GRANTHAALAYAH 7, no. 5 (May 31, 2019): 21–37. http://dx.doi.org/10.29121/granthaalayah.v7.i5.2019.821.

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This article sets out to study the evolution of the French language in Cameroon from the period of colonisation to the present. The article focuses in particular on the use of the language during the colonial period and its imposition on Cameroonians through the French policy of assimilation. Contrary to the British policy of indirect rule, France considered its colonies as oversea territories (la France outre-mer) which had to speak and write the French language in a manner as prescribed by the Académie Française. Our investigation looks at the evolution of the language after independence and the different varieties that developed from mainstream French: these include Cameroon popular French (CPF) or the social variety, and a hybrid variety (camfranglais) used mostly by the younger generation of Cameroonians. We aim at evaluating the influence of the latter variety, in order to analyse the radical transformation process that the French language is experiencing in French Africa in general and in Cameroon in particular. The article validates our position that the French language as used in Cameroon is a repossession of a very complex language. We conclude with comments on the opinions of various actors, their attitudes and judgments of the different varieties of the language as used in Cameroon.

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Vakunta, Peter Wuteh. "Camfranglais—The Making of a New Language in Fouda’s Je parle camerounais and Fonkou’s Moi taximan." Journal of the Midwest Modern Language Association 44, no. 2 (2011): 93–110. http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/mml.2011.0017.

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Pütz, Martin. "Exploring the linguistic landscape of Cameroon: Reflections on language policy and ideology." Russian Journal of Linguistics 24, no. 2 (December 15, 2020): 294–324. http://dx.doi.org/10.22363/2687-0088-2020-24-2-294-324.

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This contribution focuses on the study of Linguistic Landscapes in the Central/Western African state of Cameroon, with particular reference to its capital, Yaoundé. Linguistic landscapes is a relatively recent area of research, and can be broadly defined as the visual representation of languages in public space. This paper will show that the field of linguistic landscapes can act as a reflection of linguistic hierarchies, ideologies and acts of resistance in multilingual and multicultural communities. At the same time, the sociolinguistic situation in the country will be investigated, which is paramount to understanding the linguistic and ideological conflicts between the anglophone minority and the francophone government. Cameroon’s linguistic landscape will be explored via the various spaces that English, French, Pidgin English, Camfranglais and, to a minor degree, indigenous African languages occupy in its sociolinguistic composition. The methodological design is quantitative in nature, involving collecting more than 600 linguistic tokens (digital photos) in various public places mainly in and around the Cameroonian capital of Yaoundé. It will be demonstrated that the deployment of languages on signs and linguistic tokens, apart from serving informative and symbolic functions for the audiences or passers-by they target, also has social and political implications in an ethnically heterogeneous and linguistically hybrid society such as Cameroon. Whereas in some other former British colonies there are indications that the public space is being symbolically constructed in order to preserve some of Africa’s indigenous languages (e.g. in Botswana, Rwanda, Tanzania), in Cameroon the linguistic landscape almost exclusively focuses on the dominant status and role of one single language, i.e. French, and to a lesser extent English, whose speakers therefore feel marginalized and oppressed by the French government.

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Ubanako, Valentine Njende. "Male Chauvinism in Cameroon Pidgin English: The Case of the Collocates of Man." World Journal of English Language 8, no. 2 (August 27, 2018): 12. http://dx.doi.org/10.5430/wjel.v8n2p12.

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The aim of this paper is to assess the creative and dynamic uses of the collocates of man in Cameroon Pidgin English as it has picked up chauvinistic connotations in a strict and increasingly patriarchal Cameroon. Cameroon Pidgin English has been analyzed from different perspectives by different scholars, but the area of collocation has seldom been tackled. Word associations like ‘speak like a man’, ‘drive like a man’, ‘man-boy’, ‘my man’ (penis),’ he is a real man’ ‘man hand’ etc. abound in the repertoire of Cameroonian users of English. This paper thus brings out the different possible collocations with the word man as well as semantic degradations and ameliorations in the Cameroonian context and investigates if the continuous dominance of (the) man in the Cameroonian society could be a subtle case of linguistic rights violation. This study uses participant observation, interviews and questionnaires to obtain data from 100 speakers of Cameroon Pidgin English in Cameroon.This study employs the social identity theory propounded by Henri Tajfel and John Turner (1979; 1986) which explains intergroup behaviours and status differences. Results show that the domains of use cut across the domains of the traditional ruling system, titles and kinship terms, professions, traditional economic system and foodstuffs and drinks. Also, man is used in Cameroon Pidgin English for self -expression and self- identification. Most of the collocates of man reflect the sociolinguistic background of the country with most of the terms having come from background languages like French, Cameroon Pidgin English and Camfranglais.

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Dissertations / Theses on the topic "Camfranglais language"

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Ngo, Ngok-Graux Elisabeth. "Le camfranglais, un parler urbain au Cameroun : attitudes, représentations, fonctionnement linguistique pour un apparentement typologique." Aix-Marseille 1, 2010. http://www.theses.fr/2010AIX10119.

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Le français au Cameroun est dans un contexte de cohabitation avec des centaines de langues locales et avec l'anglais comme langue co-officielle. Ces dernières années, sa grande véhicularité dans la partie francophone du pays a donné lieu à une mutation de ses fonctions, passant de langue véhiculaire à langue vernaculaire et langue d'expression d'une identité linguistique camerounaise. Dans l'espace urbain, l'émergence du camfranglais, mélange de français, d'anglais, de pidgin et de langues camerounaises, généralement défini comme parler des jeunes, pose la question des parlers émergents autour du français. Dans ce contexte d'hétérogénéité linguistique où l'attachement à la norme du français reste malgré tout de mise, le camfranglais apparaît souvent comme une pratique relevant des parlers de contact tels que les argots. Ce travail est un examen empirique du camfranglais, à l'aide de corpus recueillis dans les villes de Douala et de Yaoundé au sein d'une population majoritairement jeune. Il a pour but d'étudier les représentations des locuteurs, et de confronter l'impact de celles-ci à la description linguistique proprement dite dans le but d'un apparentement typologique du camfranglais. L'objectif principal est une meilleure connaissance des fondements et des processus engagés dans ce qui peut être considéré comme un changement linguistique.

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Nyamsi, Jean Crépin. "Le rôle des médias dans la francophonie : une étude de la promotion du français et de sa réception dans le contexte du bilinguisme camerounais." Thesis, Lyon 2, 2009. http://www.theses.fr/2009LYO20098.

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Dans les canaux de communication au Cameroun se pose une problématique sur la prééminence des débats sur les langues officielles et le recul des langues nationales. La conséquence de cette situation est l’altération des forces endogènes. Avec ses plus de 260 unités de langue, le Cameroun présente l’image d’une tour de Babel. A ce chiffre, il faut ajouter le français et l’anglais, langues des deux anciennes puissances mandataires.Pour comprendre cette situation, la première partie analysera les composantes d’un projet qui passe par la mise en place d’une « communauté organique » dont l’originalité tient au fait qu’elle se trouve fondée initialement sur l’usage préalable de la langue française.Dans la deuxième partie, on déterminera la nature des liens qui paraissent entre la problématique sur la cohabitation des langues nationales (dialectes) et le français au Cameroun.La troisième partie s’assigne quant à elle pour tâche d’analyser la réception du français au Cameroun en développant les différentes fonctions qu’occupe cette langue
In the ways of communication in Cameroon comes up a problematic about the pre-eminence of debates about official languages and the decline of national languages. The consequence of this situation is the deterioration of endogenous forces. With more than 260 units of language, Cameroon shows the image of a Tower of Babel. To this number must be add French and English, languages of the two former representative powers. So as to understand this situation, the first part will analyze the components of a plan which goes through the setting up of an “organic community” of which the original aspect belongs to the fact that it is initially based on the preliminary use the French language. In the second part, we will determine the nature of the links which appear between the problematic of the cohabitation of national languages (dialects) and the French in Cameroon. The third part has in charge the analysis of the understanding of French in Cameroon within developing the different functions this language takes up

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Ngalani, Tcheutcheu Arlette Carole. "Présence de la culture camerounaise dans la langue française. Le camfranglais dans la chanson Gromologie de Koppo." Bachelor's thesis, Alma Mater Studiorum - Università di Bologna, 2020. http://amslaurea.unibo.it/21285/.

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Le camfranglais est la langue parlée par les camerounais dans des contextes et situations informelles. Cette langue est composée du français, de l'anglais et des langues vernaculaires du pays. Après la colonisation et son impact sur la culture africaine, le seul moyen trouvé par les Camerounais afin de revendiquer leur "camerounité" et de s'y reconnaître fut de créer une langue propre à elle. Nous avons basé notre travail sur le processus de formation de cette dernière ainsi que sur son rôle déterminant dans la reconstruction de l'identité camerounaise.

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Eloundou, Eloundou Venant. "Étude des pratiques linguistiques en camfranglais dans les centres urbains camerounais : le cas de Yaoundé." Thesis, Aix-Marseille 1, 2011. http://www.theses.fr/2011AIX10121.

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Mettant à contribution les principes de la linguistique distributionnelle (alimentés par les acquis de la sémantaxe) et l’approche de la linguistique de corpus, cette étude porte sur le fonctionnement linguistique du camfranglais. L’analyse consacrée aux procédés identifiés aux niveaux lexical, morphologique, sémantique et syntaxique permet de constater que les camfranglophones réactualisent le matériau linguistique que leur offrent les composantes linguistiques. Ainsi, émergent ce qu’il est convenu d’appeler des règles d’usage ou d’expression. Cette réactualisation met en œuvre deux processus, notamment la simplification et la complexification linguistique. Les locuteurs, d’une part simplifient les conventions liées aux langues en présence, et d’autre part, ils les complexifient. On peut donc faire valoir la thèse d’une auto-régulation du système. À cet effet, le CFA est un parler mixte qui présente une autonomie linguistique partielle. L’étude montre que cette autonomie s’observe au niveau de son fonctionnement intra-systémique. Par ailleurs, ce parler est traversé par deux tendances linguistiques majeures : la pidginisation et l’acclimatement / acclimatation du français
Putting forth the contribution of the principles of distributional linguistic (fuelled by the precepts of semantax) and the approach of corpus linguistics, this study focuses on the linguistic functioning. The analysis consecrated to the identified processes to the lexical, morphological, semantic levels enabled us to observe that the Camfranglophones update the linguistic elements that furnish the composing linguistical betting to Camfranglais. As such, what obtains can be considered as rules of usage. This update process highlights two processes namely: simplification and complexification of linguistic. The speakers, on the one hand, simplify the convention linked to the language in situ, and on the other hand, they do render them complex. We can postulate a thesis of some auto-regulation of the system. To this effect, Camfranglais is a mixed speech which presents some partial linguistic autonomy. The study shows that this autonomy can be observed at the level of its intra-systematic functioning. All the same, it comes across two main linguistical tendencies: pidginization and acclimatisation of French language

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Books on the topic "Camfranglais language"

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1960-, Echu George, and Biloa Edmond, eds. Le camfranglais, quelle parlure?: Étude linguistique et sociolinguistique. Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang, 2008.

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Kouega, Jean-Paul. Camfranglais: A glossary of common words, phrases and usages. Muenchen: LINCOM Europa, 2013.

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Vakunta, Peter W. Camfranglais: The making of a new language in Cameroonian literature. Mankon, Bamenda, Cameroon: Langaa Research & Publishing CIG, 2014.

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Kamdem, Hector. Dictionary of Camfranglais. Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften, Peter, 2015.

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Kamdem, Hector. Dictionary of Camfranglais. Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften, Peter, 2015.

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Kamdem, Hector. Dictionary of Camfranglais. Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften, Peter, 2015.

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Dictionary of Camfranglais. Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften, Peter, 2015.

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Vakunta, Peter W. Camfranglais: The Making of a New Language in Cameroonian Literature. Langaa Research & Publishing Common Initiative Group, 2014.

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Stein, Gardy. Gender-Based Differences in Exposure to and Usage of Camfranglais in Yaoundé: The Power to Exclude? Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2022.

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Book chapters on the topic "Camfranglais language"

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Ojongnkpot, Comfort Beyang Oben. "Urban Youth Language Use in Social Media in Anglophone Cameroon: A Morpho-Syntactic Analysis of Camfranglais Among University of Buea Students." In Sociolinguistics in African Contexts, 287–300. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-49611-5_16.

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Kießling, Roland. "Grammatical Hybridity in Camfranglais?" In Youth Language Practices and Urban Language Contact in Africa, 115–40. Cambridge University Press, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/9781316759769.008.

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Oum, Michèle. "Le camfranglais en Allemagne:." In Linguistic and Sociolinguistic Perspectives of Youth Language Practices in Africa, 89–102. Langaa RPCIG, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/j.ctvx07820.9.

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Siebetcheu, Raymond. "Le camfranglais dans le contexte migratoire italien:." In Linguistic and Sociolinguistic Perspectives of Youth Language Practices in Africa, 67–88. Langaa RPCIG, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/j.ctvx07820.8.

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Ebongue, Augustin Emmanuel. "Tendances graphiques, syntaxiques et morphosyntaxiques du camfranglais écrit." In Linguistic and Sociolinguistic Perspectives of Youth Language Practices in Africa, 103–20. Langaa RPCIG, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/j.ctvx07820.10.

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Schröder, Anne, and Philip W. Rudd. "Language Mixing and Ecology in Africa: Focus on Camfranglais and Sheng." In Linguistic Ecology and Language Contact, 214–33. Cambridge University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/9781139649568.009.

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"Camfranglais — A Language with Several (Sur)Faces and Important Sociolinguistic Functions." In Global Fragments, 281–98. Brill | Rodopi, 2007. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/9789401204224_020.

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