37.1917, Books: The Confluence of Multiculturalism and Knowledge Systems: Tasah and Langmia (eds.) (2026)

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Date: 27-May-2026
From: Ulrich Lueders [contact at lincom.eu]
Subject: The Confluence of Multiculturalism and Knowledge Systems: Tasah and Langmia (eds.) (2026)

Title: The Confluence of Multiculturalism and Knowledge Systems
Subtitle: Perspectives in Language and Literature
Series Title: LINCOM Studies in Language and Literature 43
Publication Year: 2026

Publisher: Lincom GmbH
           https://lincom-shop.eu/
Book URL:
https://lincom-shop.eu/epages/57709feb-b889-4707-b2ce-c666fc88085d.sf/en_GB/?ViewObjectPath=%2FShops%2F57709feb-b889-4707-b2ce-c666fc88085d%2FProducts%2F%22ISBN%209783969392782%22

Editor(s): James Ngoin Tasah & Forti Etienne Langmia (eds.), orti
Etienne Langmia (eds.)

17x24cm. Pb. ISBN 9783969392782. LINCOM Studies in Language and
Literature 43. 292pp. 2026. EUR 82.80.

Abstract:

The compendium, entitled The Confluence of Multiculturalism and
Knowledge Systems: Perspectives in Language and Literature, is the
outcome of an initiative by the Department of English Language and
Literature of Faculty of Arts, Letters and Social Sciences at the
University of Maroua. This collection explores the relationship
between multiculturalism and knowledge systems from both linguistic
and literary perspectives. The individual papers address various
aspects of language (such as language endangerment, lexicology,
rhetoric, phonology and pragmatics) as well as key literary themes.
The volume comprise twelve papers divided into two parts, which
examine multiculturalism and knowledge systems from two broad
perspectives. Part One focuses on language in multicultural contexts,
including the fate of less endangered languages, rhetorical structures
and techniques in sermons, differences in sound productions, New
Englishes, the language use of petty traders, translanguaging
practices, English requests produced by non-native speakers, and the
use of oppressive language in Cameroonian literary texts. Part Two
offers a literary portrayal of the confluence of multicultural
contexts and knowledge systems, addressing issues such as the
post-apartheid public sphere, (in)transigency to cultural evolution,
the burden of race in settler discourse, epistemological
(de)colonisation, inclusive epistemologies, and education and
intellectual idealism.
Table of Contents:
James N.  Tasah
The Production of multicultural Literacy Materials as a Strategy for
the enhancement  of less endangered languages in Cameroon
Joseph Nkwain
Translanguaging as multilingualism through the Short Message Service -
Solange Swiri Tumasang: Structure as a Rhetorical Strategy in New
Pentecostal Sermons: a Move Analysis Approach
Raphael Tegha Ketcha
Monophthongal Peculiarities of Audio-visual Cameroon and Nigerian
Englishes Contrasted: the PET, DRESS and CommA Vowels: Modality and
Politeness in the English
Ngonjo Victor Fuh
Petty Traders’ Language Usage in the Commercialisation of goods in
Douala-
Faissam Warda: Requests by Indigenous Fulbe in Maroua  Town
James N. Tasah and Binwe Emmanuel
Oppressive language in Anglophone Cameroon Literature: An analysis of
John Nkemngong Nkengasong’s Across The Mongolo (2004), Alobwed’ Epie’s
The Lady with  a Beard (2005) and Bole Butake’s Lake God (1986)
Etienne Langmia Forti
The Polarized Post-Apartheid Public Sphere in Nadine Gordimer’s The
House  Gun, Get a Life, and Nicholas Mhlongo’s Dog Eat Dog and After
Tears
Siefred Khan Nchifor
(In)Transigency To Cultural Evolution: A Reading Of Evelyn Waugh’s A
Handful Of Dust
Francis Tiambei
The Burden Of Race In Settler Discourses: The Self And The Other In
Caryl Philips’s Higher Ground
Hassan Mbiydzenyuy Yosimbom
By Them, For Them, But Not About Them: The African University at the
Crossroads of Epistemological (De) Colonization and Inclusive
Epistemologies
Christine Agbor Aje and Ngong Joseph Sam
Education and Intellectual Idealism:  A Study of Selected Poems by
Chirikure Chirikure and Nol Alembong

Linguistic Field(s): General Linguistics
                     Language Acquisition
                     Ling & Literature

Written In: English (eng)

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