Linguistic Landscapes and Multilingualism in Yaoundé, Cameroon

Sociolinguistic and socio-cognitive processes at work
1. Auflage 2022
ISBN: 978-3-631-87720-3
Verlag: Peter Lang

Buch, Englisch, Band 129, 302 Seiten, Format (B × H): 153 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 505 g

Reihe: DASK – Duisburger Arbeiten zur Sprach- und Kulturwissenschaft / Duisburg Papers on Research in Language and Culture

Linguistic Landscape studies examine language(s) in public spaces. This study focuses on the interplay of language, space and sociocultural context: Yaoundé’s Linguistic Landscape is examined with respect to its multilingual and multimodal nature. Next to a sociolinguistic framework, a (socio)cognitive analysis is also put centre stage.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Mundt, Neele

Über Autor(innen)

Neele Mundt is a lecturer in English linguistics at the University of Koblenz-Landau, Germany. She works in the field of sociolinguistics with a focus on English in central Africa. She spent one year in Yaoundé, where she collected field data for her research project situated at the juncture of (cognitive) sociolinguistics and linguistic landscape studies in Cameroon. Her research interests include multilingualism, (cognitive) sociolinguistics and applied linguistics in general, and with a focus on Africa in particular.