Language Usage of Some Educated Anglophone Families in Yaounde
Description
A study of the language usage of five educated anglophone families resident in Yaounde, submitted in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the Masters Degree in English, Department of English, University of Yaounde, June 1979. The thesis comprises four chapters. The Introduction outlines the purpose, scope and method of the work, informants' details, the language situation in Cameroon(1971-1978), language problems of urbanisation, attitudes towards language and the decreolization of Cameroon Creole. The second chapter contains a review of some literature on language usage, including the work of Dell Hymes, Uriel Weinreich, William Labov and Basil Bernstein. Chapter Three concerns the language usage of the five families, and includes linguistic profiles of each member of each family, and patterns of usage at home. The conclusion to this chapter contains sections on statistical inference, classification and evaluation, code distribution, code usage and frequency score, traditional patterns of code acquisition and urban patterns of code acquisition. The final chapter considers issues of societal integration, and new urban codes. An Appendix presents biographical summaries of all the informants, transcriptions and free translations of selected dialogue, definitions of some sociolinguistic terms, and information on the national linguistic structure in Cameroon.
Metadata
| Identifier | pql8d9x7 |
| IRN | 410410 |
| Class Mark | LAVC/SRP/4/016 |
| Level | File |
| Type of Record | Archives - ISAD(G) |
| Peristent Link | http://prototype1.library.leeds.ac.uk/pql8d9x7 |
| Collection(s) | Leeds Archive of Vernacular Culture |
| Category | Archive |
| Parent Record | Non-Institute Theses and Dissertations |
| Creator(s) | Ewota, Jemea I |
| Date | 1979 |
| Size and Medium | viii, 221 bound typed leaves. |