Beban Sammy Chumbow
Biographic Data
| ID | 1246985 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Beban Sammy Chumbow |
| GIVEN NAMES | Beban Sammy |
| FAMILY NAME | Chumbow |
| SIGNATURE | CHUMBOW B S |
| AFFILIATIONS | Université de Dschang |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 4 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 5 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1996 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2009 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Linguistic Diversity, Pluralism and National Development in Africa: Https://doi.org/10.4314/ad.v34i2.57364
In the quest for national development in Africa, how are the facts of linguistic diversity to be reconciled with pluralism, the African Union’s ideological option for nation building? From the perspective of language planning theory, we motivate, justify, rationalise and propose a tier stratification model of language planning predicated on an adaptation of Jurgen Habermas’s 1965 notion of the public sphere. Concretely, the bifurcation of the pub…
French in West Africa: A Sociolinguistic Perspective
The French language policy of France in West Africa in the colonial period was that of assimilation, elitism, and repression of African languages. The postindependence local masters continued the same policy, and it took time and a lot of pressure for the callfor the promotion of these languages to be heeded. The use of French in West Africa today shows a lot ofvariability: afunction ofthe country considered, the locality, the dominant religion, …
The Trilateral Process in Cameroon English Phonology: Underlying Representations and Phonological Processes in Non-Native Englishes
With reference to Cameroon English (CamE), this paper proposes another way of analysing non-native English features: differing from the traditional approach which limits itself to surface forms, the paper proposes the tracing of deviations down to the underlying representation (UR) and suggests that RP URs (A) are restructured to autonomous CamE URs (B). While A undergoes RP phonological rules to surface as A', B may fail to undergo these process…
Transborder languages of Africa
The life-cycle of post-imperial English in Cameroon
Linguistic Diversity, Pluralism and National Development in Africa: Https://doi.org/10.4314/ad.v34i2.57364
In the quest for national development in Africa, how are the facts of linguistic diversity to be reconciled with pluralism, the African Union’s ideological option for nation building? From the perspective of language planning theory, we motivate, justify, rationalise and propose a tier stratification model of language planning predicated on an adaptation of Jurgen Habermas’s 1965 notion of the public sphere. Concretely, the bifurcation of the pub…
French in West Africa: A Sociolinguistic Perspective
The French language policy of France in West Africa in the colonial period was that of assimilation, elitism, and repression of African languages. The postindependence local masters continued the same policy, and it took time and a lot of pressure for the callfor the promotion of these languages to be heeded. The use of French in West Africa today shows a lot ofvariability: afunction ofthe country considered, the locality, the dominant religion, …
The life-cycle of post-imperial English in Cameroon
The Trilateral Process in Cameroon English Phonology: Underlying Representations and Phonological Processes in Non-Native Englishes
With reference to Cameroon English (CamE), this paper proposes another way of analysing non-native English features: differing from the traditional approach which limits itself to surface forms, the paper proposes the tracing of deviations down to the underlying representation (UR) and suggests that RP URs (A) are restructured to autonomous CamE URs (B). While A undergoes RP phonological rules to surface as A', B may fail to undergo these process…
Transborder languages of Africa
French in West Africa: A Sociolinguistic Perspective
The French language policy of France in West Africa in the colonial period was that of assimilation, elitism, and repression of African languages. The postindependence local masters continued the same policy, and it took time and a lot of pressure for the callfor the promotion of these languages to be heeded. The use of French in West Africa today shows a lot ofvariability: afunction ofthe country considered, the locality, the dominant religion, …
Linguistic Diversity, Pluralism and National Development in Africa: Https://doi.org/10.4314/ad.v34i2.57364
In the quest for national development in Africa, how are the facts of linguistic diversity to be reconciled with pluralism, the African Union’s ideological option for nation building? From the perspective of language planning theory, we motivate, justify, rationalise and propose a tier stratification model of language planning predicated on an adaptation of Jurgen Habermas’s 1965 notion of the public sphere. Concretely, the bifurcation of the pub…
Political science (4 works) · History (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Linguistic Studies and Language Acquisition (3 works) · Linguistics (3 works) · Computer Science (2 works) · Linguistic and Sociocultural Studies (2 works) · Multilingual Education and Policy (2 works) · Philosophy (2 works) · Sociology (2 works)