Perspectives Of Gender And Language In Cameroonian Contexts
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Perspectives Of Gender And Language In Cameroonian Contexts
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Author : Atanga, Lilian Lem
language : en
Publisher: Langaa RPCIG
Release Date : 2013-12-07
Perspectives Of Gender And Language In Cameroonian Contexts written by Atanga, Lilian Lem and has been published by Langaa RPCIG this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-12-07 with Social Science categories.
This book brings to light work done in the area of gender with a penchant to language within the Cameroonian context. It looks at different domains of gender study where language is a significant variable. It is the very first edited collection that examines language and gender side by side. Contributors draw richly on their current theoretical leanings and on the current gendered discourses within the Cameroonian context to interrogate the interconnections between gender and language through social relationships and interactions. This is a pluri-disciplinary study informed by perspectives from anthropology, sociology and applied linguistics. The book hinges on gender, discourse and social change in historical perspective. Gender and language studies contribute to knowledge of new problems in view of a better understanding of relations between women and men, and its amelioration in the social space. Gender and language studies necessarily incorporate gender and discourse studies. Discourse serves as a unifying factor to these diverse disciplines which bring external support to pure linguistic studies, not only to deepen the understanding of gender but more so to describe how it works in discourse. Here, discourse is seen as being at the centre of gender ideology.
Gender Discourse And Power In The Cameroonian Parliament
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Author : Lem Atanga
language : en
Publisher: African Books Collective
Release Date : 2009-12-01
Gender Discourse And Power In The Cameroonian Parliament written by Lem Atanga and has been published by African Books Collective this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-12-01 with Social Science categories.
This book investigates gender and power relations in the Cameroonian parliament using a critical discourse analytical approach, which focuses on social issues and seeks to expose unequal relations within institutions. The study identifies different gendered discourses within the speeches of Members of Parliament and government ministers. Consciously or unconsciously, these participants within parliamentary debates draw on topics that construct women and men in specific ways, sometimes sustaining gender stereotypes or challenging existing conditions. The way men and women are constructed using language also is indicative of gender and power relations within this particular community. The study also looks at the way men and women are constructed using traditional discourses of gender differentiation and how some of these discourses get challenged, appropriated or subverted using progressive gendered discourses that advocate equal opportunities, gender equality and gender partnership in development.
Structural And Sociolinguistic Perspectives On Indigenisation
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Author : Eric A. Anchimbe
language : en
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Release Date : 2013-12-20
Structural And Sociolinguistic Perspectives On Indigenisation written by Eric A. Anchimbe and has been published by Springer Science & Business Media this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-12-20 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
Descriptions of new varieties of European languages in postcolonial contexts have focused exceedingly on system-based indigenisation and variation. This volume–while further illustrating processes and instantiations of indigenisation at this level–incorporates investigations of sociolinguistic and pragmatic phenomena in daily social interaction–e.g. politeness, respect, compliment response, naming and address forms, and gender–through innovative analytic frameworks that view indigenisation from emic perspectives. Focusing on postcolonial Cameroon and using natural and questionnaire data, the book assesses the salience of linguistic and sociocultural hybridisation triggered by colonialism and, recently, globalisation in interaction in and across languages and cultures. The authors illustrate how the multilingual nature of the society and individuals’ multilingual repertoires shape patterns in the indigenisation and evolution of the ex-colonial languages, English and French, and Pidgin English.
Gender And Language In Sub Saharan Africa
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Author : Lilian Lem Atanga
language : en
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing
Release Date : 2013-03-27
Gender And Language In Sub Saharan Africa written by Lilian Lem Atanga and has been published by John Benjamins Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-03-27 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
Gender and Language in Sub-Saharan Africa: Tradition, Struggle and Change is the first book to bring together the topics of language and gender, African languages, and gender in African contexts, and it does so in a descriptive, explanatory and critical way. Including fascinating new work and new, often challenging data from Botswana, Chad, Ghana, Kenya, Nigeria and South Africa, this collection looks at some ‘traditional’ uses of language in relation to the gender of its speakers and the gendered nature of the languages themselves; it also identifies and explores social change in terms of both gender and sexuality, as reflected in and constructed by language and discourse. The contributions to this volume are accessibly written and will be of interest to students and established academics working on African sociolinguistics and discourse, as well as those whose interest is language, gender and sexuality.
Language Planning In Africa
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Author : Nkonko Kamwangamalu
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2016-04-08
Language Planning In Africa written by Nkonko Kamwangamalu and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-04-08 with Education categories.
This volume focuses on language planning in the Cameroon, Sudan and Zimbabwe, explaining the linguistic diversity, historical and political contexts, current language situation (including language-in-education planning), the role of the media, the role of religion and the roles of non-indigenous languages. The authors are indigenous to the situations described, and draw on their experience and extensive fieldwork there. The extended case studies contained in this volume draw together the literature on each of the polities to present an overview of the existing research available, while also providing new research-based information. The purpose of this volume is to provide an up-to-date overview of the language situation in each polity based on a series of key questions, in the hope that this might facilitate the development of a richer theory to guide language policy and planning in other polities where similar issues may arise. This book comprises case studies originally published in the journal Current Issues in Language Planning.
Language Literature And Identity
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Author : Kizitus Mpoche
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2006
Language Literature And Identity written by Kizitus Mpoche and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006 with Language policy categories.
Engaging New Analytical Perspectives On Gender In The African Context
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Author : Mpilo Pear Sithole
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2013
Engaging New Analytical Perspectives On Gender In The African Context written by Mpilo Pear Sithole and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013 with categories.
Emerging Perspectives On Alobwed Epie
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Author : Sarah Anyang Agbor
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Release Date : 2018-12-17
Emerging Perspectives On Alobwed Epie written by Sarah Anyang Agbor and has been published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-12-17 with Literary Criticism categories.
This collection of essays poses the problem of the preservation of cultural identities in the present-day global context. The comparative approach of this cultural study shows the universal dimension of the issues raised in the book, highlighting that gender equality, women’s emancipation, ethnicity, religion, tradition, oppression, resistance, modernity and linguistic affinities are recurrent in many contemporary national literatures.
Perspectives On Written Cameroon Literature In English
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Author : A. Ambanasom
language : en
Publisher: African Books Collective
Release Date : 2013-02-17
Perspectives On Written Cameroon Literature In English written by A. Ambanasom and has been published by African Books Collective this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-02-17 with Literary Criticism categories.
In 2009, Anglophone Cameroon literature celebrated its fifty years of existence. Now at the mature age of fifty plus this literature has a great deal to write home about even if it still has a lot to do in its pursuit of excellence. Part of its maturity resides in the fact that although the scale of literary creativity and literary criticism is skewed in favour of the former, Anglophone Cameroon literary criticism is gradually waking up from slumber in an attempt to catch up with the rapidly expanding creativity. The essays in this book comment practically on some aspects of all the genres of written literature that the Anglophone Cameroon creative writers have produced so far: the novel, drama, poetry, the short story, the essay and childrens literature. The essays, on the whole, are a testimony of the transition and reality from the apparent drought of Anglophone Cameroon literary paucity to the actual fruitful period of Anglophone Cameroon abundance of literary creativity. The Anglophone Cameroonians have appropriated an imperial language, English, to serve their postcolonial Cameroonian vision. Their various literary texts are vehicles of representations that are essentially cultural and ideological constructs. The works examined are initially anchored on Cameroonian experiences to take on social significance. As they are grounded on moving human experiences, these works necessarily make references to the immediate Cameroonian environment of their authors before taking on universal human significance. The book abundantly evidences and crowns Shadrach Ambanasoms achievements and reputation as a skilled pedagogue on the art of practical literary criticism.
A Grammar Of Cameroonian Pidgin
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Author : John Nkemngong Nkengasong
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Release Date : 2016
A Grammar Of Cameroonian Pidgin written by John Nkemngong Nkengasong and has been published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016 with Foreign Language Study categories.
This volume represents a comprehensive description of the structure of Cameroonian Pidgin, including an overview of its socio-cultural context, writing system, sounds, word formation, word classes and sentence structures. It comprises a corpus of 540 Cameroonian Pidgin proverbs and a rich glossary of over 1000 words and expressions typical of Cameroonian Pidgin which are helpful in understanding the characteristic features of the language, as well as the cultural, the social, and the philosophical contexts of the Cameroonian Pidgin speaker. Written with the first-hand experience of a â oenative speakerâ , it will be of interest to ordinary users, as well as students, researchers and professional linguists interested in the way the language functions. Indeed, it represents a useful resource for anyone wishing to learn or know about Pidgin, especially tourists and professionals traveling to West and Central Africa.