Shifting Rhetorics in Linguistic and Literary Discourses The focus of this book is to assess, through language and literary studies in interpretation, the epistemic…
Language and Linguistics
Linguistic and Sociolinguistic Perspectives of Youth Language Practices in Africa: Codes and Identity Writings
With the demographic explosion of young people in major African cities, we are witnessing the emergence of youth languages and new speech forms. In…
In 2005, a United Nations study reported that half of the world’s languages (estimated at 6,000) would disappear by the end of this century.…
Proceedings of the 7th World Congress of African Linguistics, Buea, 17-21 August 2012
Volume One This book is a composite of 40 purely scientific and peer-reviewed papers presented during the Seventh World Congress of African Linguistics (WOCAL7)…
Proceedings of the 7th World Congress of African Linguistics, Buea, 17-21 August 2012
Volume Two This book is a composite of 40 purely scientific and peer-reviewed papers presented during the Seventh World Congress of African Linguistics (WOCAL7)…
Critical Perspectives on the Theory and Practice of Translating Camfranglais Literature
This study teases out the nexus between text typologies and translational paradigms. Camfranglais fictional works are not canonical texts; rather they find a niche…
Language of the Bororp of the Korup ethnic group Kpewi Durorp is the third attempt at bringing Durorp into the public domain, and is…
Durorp-English Dictionary is probably the first attempt at compiling a comprehensive Dictionary of Durorp, the language of the people of Korup. It is a…
A Brief Overview This book draws on the case of the Shona and other Bantu people of Africa to argue that names are not…
Bantu A10 The Bafaw Language (Bantu A10) is a product of the language research programme of the Department of Linguistics of the University of…