Language & Linguistics

This category's books

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  The Bafaw Language: Bantu A10

  2010, author(s)-editor(s) Emmanuel N. Chia, Vincent A. Tanda
  The Bafaw Language (Bantu A10) is a product of the language research programme of the Department of Linguistics of the University of Buea. It is the first serious piece of work on this highly endangered language, and aims to account generally for the data of Bafaw. The work therefore lays the foundation for more advanced work in the future. It provides a description of: the phonology, i.e. the sound system; the morphology or lexis; and the syntax of the Bafaw language. The work goes far (...)
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  Kingdom of Mankon: Aspects of History, Language, Culture, Flora and Fauna

  2010, author(s)-editor(s) Christopher Chi Che
  This book is a descriptive and documentary analysis of the Mankon I-language and E-language mirrored through aspects of history, geography, flora and fauna. These aspects manifest in the taxonomic nomenclatures attributed to referents in society. Because these referents were hitherto transmitted orally from generation to generation, the author has painstakingly analysed and documented aspects of Mankon culture for posterity. The work focuses in particular on Mankon proverbs for insights (...)
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  A Dictionary of Popular Bali Names

  2010, author(s)-editor(s) John Koyela Fokwang
  A Dictionary of Popular Bali Names is an exceptional minefield of Chamba names, meticulously assembled and expatiated for the curious user. As a pioneer in the field of dictionary-writing in the Cameroon grassfields, Fokwangís third edition counts for more than a regular dictionary. It skilfully combines a short history of the Chamba people in Cameroon as well as ethnographic issues on the naming ritual. John Fokwangís work stands in a class of its own and will serve as reference material for (...)
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  Perspectives on Translation and Interpretation in Cameroon

  2009, author(s)-editor(s) Alexandre Ndeffo Tene, Emmanuel N. Chia, Joseph C. Suh
  Perspectives on Translation and Interpretation in Cameroon is the first volume of a book series of the Advanced School of Translators and Interpreters (ASTI) of the University of Buea. It opens a window into the wide dynamic and interesting area of translation and interpretation in a multilingual Cameroon that had on the eve of independence and unification opted for official bilingualism in French and English. The book comprises contributions from scholars of translation in the broad area (...)
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  Landscaping Postcoloniality

  2009, author(s)-editor(s) Joyce Ashuntantang
  The Dissemination of Cameroon Anglophone Literature This is a foundational text on the production and dissemination of Anglophone Cameroon literature. The Republic of Cameroon is a bilingual country with English and French as the official languages. Ashuntantang shows that the pattern of production and dissemination of Anglophone Cameroon literature is not only framed by the minority status of English and English-speaking Cameroonians within the Republic of Cameroon, but is also a (...)
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  Building Capacity

  2008, author(s)-editor(s) Ngessimo M. Mutaka
  Using TEFL and African Languages as Development-oriented Literacy Tools Building Capacity promotes the vision that the teaching of African languages can best achieve its aim of boosting the economic and cultural development of the Africans, if they are made to work in synergy with a revamping of the course contents of international languages that will be taught within the frame of a development-oriented literacy curriculum. Great emphasis is put on the oral skills in the use of African (...)