30.232, Books: A Comparative Study of Intensification in Camfranglais and Cameroon Pidgin English: Biloa, Kamtchueng, Die

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Date: Tue, 15 Jan 2019 22:24:24
From: Ulrich Lueders [contact at lincom.eu]
Subject: A Comparative Study of Intensification in Camfranglais and Cameroon Pidgin English: Biloa, Kamtchueng, Die

 


Title: A Comparative Study of Intensification in Camfranglais and
Cameroon Pidgin English 
Series Title: LINCOM Studies in Pidgin & Creole Linguistics 18  

Publication Year: 2019 
Publisher: Lincom GmbH
	   http://www.lincom-shop.eu
	

Book URL: http://lincom-shop.eu/epages/57709feb-b889-4707-b2ce-c666fc88085d.sf/de_DE/?ObjectPath=/Shops/57709feb-b889-4707-b2ce-c666fc88085d/Products/%22ISBN%209783862888986%22 


Author: Edmond Biloa
Author: Lozzi Martial Meutem Kamtchueng
Author: Brice Joël Foualeng Die

Paperback: ISBN:  9783862888986 Pages: 196 Price: Europe EURO 72.80


Abstract:

This work examines the various strategies used by speakers of Camfranglais and
Cameroon Pidgin English (henceforth CPE) to mark intensification, so as to
come out with the similarities and discrepancies that exist between the two
hybrid languages in relation to this linguistic phenomenon. To achieve this
goal, the data was gathered from literary pieces of work, participant
observation, movies, musical tracts, TV broadcasts, Facebook commentaries and
data gathered by previous researchers. Quirk and Greenbaum’s 1973 model of
structural grammar was used as theoretical framework to analyse these data. A
scrutiny of the said data revealed that, in relation to intensification,
Camfranglais and CPE have much to share. This is notably because the following
patterns of intensification are opted for by their respective speakers:
one-word intensification, phrasal intensification, clausal intensification,
reduplicative intensification, interjection-based intensification, tone-based
intensification and intensification based on phonological elongation.
Similarly, in both languages, intensifiers can find themselves at initial,
medial or final positions in utterances or sentences.

Besides, in the two composite languages, intensifiers are likely to function
as pre-modifiers and post-modifiers, in the same way as coinage constitutes a
major source of intensifiers in both languages. Finally, both Camfranglais and
CPE intensifiers are likely to fall under the following semantic domains:
quantity and size, food and nutrition, kinship, action and movement, fear and
disgust, poor health condition, quality and appraisal of physical appearance.
Nonetheless, though Camfranglais and CPE both draw most of their respective
intensifiers from English and coinages, it is worth highlighting that
Camfranglais differs from CPE in that its speakers draw from a vast array of
sources (French, English, Spanish, CPE and coinages) to form intensifiers,
unlike Campidginophones who only rely on two sources (English and coinages).
 



Linguistic Field(s): General Linguistics

Subject Language(s): Pidgin, Cameroon (wes)


Written In: English  (eng)

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