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Stylistics Analysis in Advertising Discourse: A Case of the Dangote Cement Advertisement in Bamenda--Cameroon
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Fomukong, Seino Evangeline Agwa – Advances in Language and Literary Studies, 2016
There are many purposes for using language which determine how the writer or speaker chooses words, syntactic expressions and figurative language. This is as a result of the fact that language has a very powerful effect over people, their actions and thoughts. This is seen in the use of language in various discourse types which include…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Language Usage, Advertising, Language Styles
Invitation Refusals in Cameroon French and Hexagonal French
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Farenkia, Bernard Mulo – Multilingua: Journal of Cross-Cultural and Interlanguage Communication, 2015
Descriptions of regional pragmatic variation in French are lacking to date the focus has been on a limited range of speech acts, including apologies, requests, compliments and responses to compliments. The present paper, a systematic analysis of invitation refusals across regional varieties of French, is designed to add to the research on…
Descriptors: French, Pragmatics, Language Variation, Foreign Countries
How to Study a Tone Language, with Exemplification from Oku (Grassfields Bantu, Cameroon)
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Hyman, Larry M. – Language Documentation & Conservation, 2014
In response to requests I have often got as to how one approaches a tone language, I present a personal view of the three stages involved, starting from scratch and arriving at an analysis: Stage I: Determining the tonal contrasts and their approximate phonetic allotones. Stage II: Discovering any tonal alternations ("morphotonemics").…
Descriptors: Language Research, Tone Languages, Foreign Countries, African Languages
Mungbam Grammar
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Lovegren, Jesse Stuart James – ProQuest LLC, 2013
This dissertation is an attempt to state what is known at present about the grammar of Mungbam (ISO 693-3 [mij]). Mungbam is a Niger-Congo language spoken in the Northwest Region of Cameroon. The dissertation is a descriptive grammar, covering the phonetics, phonology morphology and syntax of the language. Source data are texts and elicited data…
Descriptors: Grammar, Language Research, African Languages, Foreign Countries
Early Language Learning: Complexity and Mixed Methods
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Enever, Janet, Ed.; Lindgren, Eva, Ed. – Multilingual Matters, 2017
This is the first collection of research studies to explore the potential for mixed methods to shed light on foreign or second language learning by young learners in instructed contexts. It brings together recent studies undertaken in Cameroon, China, Croatia, Ethiopia, France, Germany, Italy, Kenya, Mexico, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Tanzania and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Second Language Learning, English (Second Language), French
Aspects of a Grammar of Makary Kotoko (Chadic, Cameroon)
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Allison, Sean David – ProQuest LLC, 2012
Makary Kotoko (MK), a Central Chadic B language, is spoken in the north of Cameroon just south of Lake Chad. Published works on MK to date include about a dozen articles on different aspects of the grammar of the language, primarily by H. Tourneux. The present work, which is based on a substantial corpus of recorded texts, is a systematic…
Descriptors: Grammar, Language Research, African Languages, Morphology (Languages)