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Book Chapter: Sociolinguistic characteristics of the English-lexifier contact languages of West Africa
Title | Sociolinguistic characteristics of the English-lexifier contact languages of West Africa |
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Authors | |
Keywords | English-lexifier creoles Language contact Language policies Language ideologies West Africa Sociolinguistic domains |
Issue Date | 2020 |
Publisher | John Benjamins Publishing Company. |
Citation | Sociolinguistic characteristics of the English-lexifier contact languages of West Africa. In Smith, N ; Veenstra, T & Aboh, EO (Eds.), Advances in Contact Linguistics: In honour of Pieter Muysken, p. 62-83. Amsterdam: John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2020 How to Cite? |
Abstract | This chapter provides a comparison of key sociolinguistic characteristics of Nigerian Pidgin, Cameroon Pidgin, Ghanaian Pidgin English, Pichi (Equatorial Guinea) and Krio (Sierra Leone). In the past few decades, these African English-lexifier contact languages (AECs) have seen an exponential growth in speaker numbers and an expansion into domains once reserved for English and non-creole African languages. All AECs nevertheless still struggle with a low sociolinguistic prestige and the absence of corpus and status planning initiatives by state actors. Overall, the potential of these languages remains relatively untapped across the region for education, political participation, economic, and cultural activity. At the same time, the impact of the AECs on smaller languages through contact and shift to the AECs is also likely to make itself felt in coming decades. |
Persistent Identifier | http://hdl.handle.net/10722/275670 |
ISBN | |
Series/Report no. | Contact Language Library ; 57 |
DC Field | Value | Language |
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dc.contributor.author | Yakpo, K | - |
dc.date.accessioned | 2019-09-10T02:47:15Z | - |
dc.date.available | 2019-09-10T02:47:15Z | - |
dc.date.issued | 2020 | - |
dc.identifier.citation | Sociolinguistic characteristics of the English-lexifier contact languages of West Africa. In Smith, N ; Veenstra, T & Aboh, EO (Eds.), Advances in Contact Linguistics: In honour of Pieter Muysken, p. 62-83. Amsterdam: John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2020 | - |
dc.identifier.isbn | 9789027207562 | - |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10722/275670 | - |
dc.description.abstract | This chapter provides a comparison of key sociolinguistic characteristics of Nigerian Pidgin, Cameroon Pidgin, Ghanaian Pidgin English, Pichi (Equatorial Guinea) and Krio (Sierra Leone). In the past few decades, these African English-lexifier contact languages (AECs) have seen an exponential growth in speaker numbers and an expansion into domains once reserved for English and non-creole African languages. All AECs nevertheless still struggle with a low sociolinguistic prestige and the absence of corpus and status planning initiatives by state actors. Overall, the potential of these languages remains relatively untapped across the region for education, political participation, economic, and cultural activity. At the same time, the impact of the AECs on smaller languages through contact and shift to the AECs is also likely to make itself felt in coming decades. | - |
dc.language | eng | - |
dc.publisher | John Benjamins Publishing Company. | - |
dc.relation.ispartof | Advances in Contact Linguistics: In honour of Pieter Muysken | - |
dc.relation.ispartofseries | Contact Language Library ; 57 | - |
dc.subject | English-lexifier creoles | - |
dc.subject | Language contact | - |
dc.subject | Language policies | - |
dc.subject | Language ideologies | - |
dc.subject | West Africa | - |
dc.subject | Sociolinguistic domains | - |
dc.title | Sociolinguistic characteristics of the English-lexifier contact languages of West Africa | - |
dc.type | Book_Chapter | - |
dc.identifier.email | Yakpo, K: kofi@hku.hk | - |
dc.identifier.authority | Yakpo, K=rp01715 | - |
dc.description.nature | link_to_subscribed_fulltext | - |
dc.identifier.doi | 10.1075/coll.57.02yak | - |
dc.identifier.hkuros | 303509 | - |
dc.identifier.spage | 62 | - |
dc.identifier.epage | 83 | - |
dc.publisher.place | Amsterdam | - |