Vol. 19 No. 3 (2010): Nordic Journal of African Studies
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Linguistic Choices in Postcolonial Multilingual Cameroon

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  • Aloysius Ngefac
Aloysius Ngefac
University of Regensburg, Germany
Nordic Journal of African Studies
DOI: https://doi.org/10.53228/njas.v19i3.200

Published 2010-09-30

How to Cite

Ngefac, A. (2010). Linguistic Choices in Postcolonial Multilingual Cameroon. Nordic Journal of African Studies, 19(3), 16. https://doi.org/10.53228/njas.v19i3.200

Abstract

In a complex postcolonial multilingual context, such as Cameroon, many languages are available to the speakers and even compete to be used. This study investigates linguistic choices made by Cameroonians selected according to some sociolinguistic factors, their reasons for choosing or rejecting the languages used in Cameroon and the political, sociocultural and sociolinguistic ideologies such choices are likely to convey.

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