Rachel Ayuk Ojong Diba
Biographic Data
| ID | 8955938 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Rachel Ayuk Ojong Diba |
| GIVEN NAMES | Rachel Ayuk Ojong |
| FAMILY NAME | Diba |
| SIGNATURE | DIBA R A O |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Buea |
| ORCID | 0009-0009-7224-0613 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 4 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 4 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Motivated multilingualism in Lower Fungom: Rethinking language choice through ethnographic evidence
Aims and Objectives/Purpose/Research Questions: This study investigates the motivations behind language choice among multilingual speakers in Lower Fungom, Cameroon. It asks how multilingual individuals select languages in everyday interactions and what social, emotional, and pragmatic factors drive these choices beyond institutional or prestige-based explanations. Design/Methodology/Approach: This study adopts an ethnographic approach, combining…
Beyond a Common Code: Cameroon Pidgin English - the Language of the Elite and the Masses
The principal purpose of this paper is to underline the usefulness and efficacy of Cameroonian Pidgin English (CPE) in dealing with the intense multilingualism of Cameroonians in a rural enclave in Cameroon and in the Diaspora. CPE is a highly stigmatized but extensively used language of wider communication in Cameroon. Cameroon is second only to Papua New Guinea in terms of its multiplicity of languages for a relatively small population and the …
Towards a coherent methodology for the documentation of small-scale multilingualism: Dealing with speech data
Purpose: To contribute to the establishment of a novel approach to language documentation that includes bilingual and multilingual speech data. This approach would open this domain of study to work by specialists of bilingualism and multilingualism. Approach: Within language documentation, the approach adopted in this paper exemplifies the “contemporary communicative ecology” mode of documentation. This radically differs from the “ancestral-code”…
Multilingualism in Under-resourced Languages for Sustainable Development in Rural Communities
Cameroon, a central African country, is one of the most linguistically diverse countries in Africa with about 280 living languages (Ethnologue 2020), for an estimated population of 26,727,521 people (Worldometer, 2020). Cameroon is second only to Papua New Guinea in terms of its multiplicity of languages for a relatively small population. Contrary to popular opinion, multilingualism exists even in rural communities; in fact, it is even more inten…
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Beyond a Common Code: Cameroon Pidgin English - the Language of the Elite and the Masses
The principal purpose of this paper is to underline the usefulness and efficacy of Cameroonian Pidgin English (CPE) in dealing with the intense multilingualism of Cameroonians in a rural enclave in Cameroon and in the Diaspora. CPE is a highly stigmatized but extensively used language of wider communication in Cameroon. Cameroon is second only to Papua New Guinea in terms of its multiplicity of languages for a relatively small population and the …
Towards a coherent methodology for the documentation of small-scale multilingualism: Dealing with speech data
Purpose: To contribute to the establishment of a novel approach to language documentation that includes bilingual and multilingual speech data. This approach would open this domain of study to work by specialists of bilingualism and multilingualism. Approach: Within language documentation, the approach adopted in this paper exemplifies the “contemporary communicative ecology” mode of documentation. This radically differs from the “ancestral-code”…
Multilingualism in Under-resourced Languages for Sustainable Development in Rural Communities
Cameroon, a central African country, is one of the most linguistically diverse countries in Africa with about 280 living languages (Ethnologue 2020), for an estimated population of 26,727,521 people (Worldometer, 2020). Cameroon is second only to Papua New Guinea in terms of its multiplicity of languages for a relatively small population. Contrary to popular opinion, multilingualism exists even in rural communities; in fact, it is even more inten…
Motivated multilingualism in Lower Fungom: Rethinking language choice through ethnographic evidence
Aims and Objectives/Purpose/Research Questions: This study investigates the motivations behind language choice among multilingual speakers in Lower Fungom, Cameroon. It asks how multilingual individuals select languages in everyday interactions and what social, emotional, and pragmatic factors drive these choices beyond institutional or prestige-based explanations. Design/Methodology/Approach: This study adopts an ethnographic approach, combining…
Multilingual Education and Policy (4 works) · Multilingualism (4 works) · Sociology (3 works) · Computer Science (2 works) · Geography (2 works) · Linguistic and Sociocultural Studies (2 works) · Linguistic Variation and Morphology (2 works) · Linguistics (2 works) · Pedagogy (2 works) · Political science (2 works)