A Dictionary of Camfranglais 1st Edition by Hector Kamdem Fonkoua 3631659431 9783631659434

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ISBN 10: 3631659431

ISBN 13: 9783631659434

Author: Hector Kamdem Fonkoua

This book is a simple and clear presentation of the lexis of Camfranglais, an urban youth sociolect in Cameroon. It presents this sociolect as an outgrowth of language contact phenomena that have fossilized especially around the Littoral Region of Cameroon. Methodologically speaking, it uses a lexicographic as well as an ethnographic approach to data collection. Lexical elements have been collected from such diverse sources as Cameroonian popular music, online chat groups and forums like Facebook, blogs, Youtube videos etc. Besides there were group conversations organized for the collection of data. The major strength of this book lies in the diversity and authenticity of its sources which are all traceable. Moreover, all the regular statements it makes about the origin, semantic categories, grammatical classes of the lexis of Camfranglais are the result of the necessary lexical manipulations that should precede these statements. A complete alphabetical lexicon of Camfranglais is presented, and, where possile, etymologies are given. For all entries, real examples are quoted so as to guide the reader to the usage of words. Idiomatic expressions are also presented for different lexical entries. The book will serve as reference for those working on Camfranglais as well as a starting point for lexico-semantic studies on Camfranglais.

Table of contents:

1 Introduction

1.1 Camfranglais: Historical Origin and Definition

1.2 The Camfranglais, Cameroon Pidgin English, Mboko Talk, CameroonPopular French continuum and code

2 Methodology

2.1 Field research

2.2 Acknowledgements

2.3 The Making of the Dictionary

2.4 Overview of the dictionary

3 Sociolinguistics of Camfranglais

3.1 Camfranglais as a youth language

3.2 Knowledge, use and attitudes

3.3 Diachronic aspects of Camfranglais

4 Lexical elaboration of Camfranglais

4.1 Humans and Social Relations

4.1.1 Socio-professional roles

4.1.2 Social Status & Attributes

4.1.3 Men and Women

4.1.4 Descriptions of Everyday Life Situations

4.2 Communication

4.3 Sex and Sexuality

4.4 Evaluation & Measurement

4.5 Body & Appearance

4.6 Economy and money

4.7 Experience and feeling

4.8 Violence, illegality and trouble

4.9 Sports & Entertainment

4.10 Forms of Address, politeness and Respect

4.11 Insults

4.12 Geography and places

4.13 Crime & police

4.14 Drugs and Alcohol

4.15 Movement & vehicles

4.16 Education

4.17 Diseases, Medicine & Witchcraft

5 The poetic making of Camfranglais

5.1 Metaphorical Source Domains in Camfranglais

5.2 Semantic manipulation in Camfranglais

5.2.1 Metonymy

5.3 Dysphemism

5.4 Hyperbole

5.5 Onomastic synecdoche

5.5.1 Semantic positivization

5.5.2 Euphemism

5.6 Morphological manipulation in Camfranglais

5.6.1 affixation

5.6.2 Clipping

5.6.3 Inversion

5.6.4 compounding

5.6.5 reduplication

5.6.6 (phonological) transformation or manipulation

Consonant change

Complete transformation

5.6.7 abbreviation and acronyms

5.7 Word Class in Camfranglais

5.8 Donor languages

6 The construction of youth identities in discourse practice

7 Camfranglais in a historical perspective

7.1 Pidginisation and creolisation

7.2 Codeswitching

8 Conclusion

References

Blogs and web pages

9 Dictionary of Camfranglais

Appendices

Appendix 1: Miss Camfrangleurs

Appendix 2: “I love you” in Camfranglais

Appendix 3: Camfranglais versions of “lol’’

Appendix 4: Sample texts from a Camfranglais competition organised by the Facebook blogger «Un Mbom

TEXT A.

TEXT B.

Appendix 5: Sample extract from Facebook chat group

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