{"id":745,"date":"2024-01-16T17:23:43","date_gmt":"2024-01-16T17:23:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ubwp.buffalo.edu\/kpaamcam\/?p=745"},"modified":"2024-09-24T13:27:23","modified_gmt":"2024-09-24T13:27:23","slug":"esene-agwara-angiachi-demetris","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ubwp.buffalo.edu\/kpaamcam\/2024\/01\/16\/esene-agwara-angiachi-demetris\/","title":{"rendered":"Esene Agwara, Angiachi Demetris."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ubwp.buffalo.edu\/kpaamcam\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/86\/2024\/09\/EseneAgwara-2013-RuralMultilingualism-compressed.pdf\">Rural multilingualism in the North West Region of Cameroon: The case of Lower Fungom<\/a>. Masters thesis, University of Buea.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>EN: This work explores the multilingual region of Lower Fungom, a rural area in the northwest region of Cameroon. This area traditionally has boasted significantly high rates of multilingualism since pre-colonial times. Using a sociolinguistic survey grounded in both ethnographic and linguistic investigation, the study reveals a detailed picture of the multilingual populace while also demonstrating the importance of gathering data from an ethnographic perspective to reveal the language choices of the region\u2019s inhabitants. They find that social motivations, such as marriage, perceived proximity and similarity, and religion, often explain the high rates of multilingualism in Lower Fungom. Additionally, there is evidence that pre-colonial multilingualism coincided with trade and the search for security in the absence of a lingua franca. The local language ideologies of the Lower Fungom people are motivated towards creating a maximum number of beneficial social networks. Finally, this work revealed that the use of an ethnographic approach allowed researchers to gain a true picture of the sociolinguistic traits of the inhabitants of Lower Fungom.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>FR: Ce travail explore le multilinguisme observ\u00e9 dans la r\u00e9gion du Bas Fungom, une zone rurale situ\u00e9e dans la R\u00e9gion du Nord-Ouest Cameroun. Dans cette zone, traditionnellement il y a un niveau important de multilinguisme datant de l\u2019\u00e9poque coloniale. \u00c0 l\u2019aide d\u2019une enqu\u00eate sociolinguistique contenant des informations aussi bien ethnographiques que linguistiques,l\u2019\u00e9tude r\u00e9v\u00e8le une image d\u00e9taill\u00e9e de la population multilingue tout en d\u00e9montrant aussi l\u2019importance de l&#8217;utilisation d&#8217;une perspective ethnographique pour r\u00e9v\u00e9ler les choix de langue des habitants dans la r\u00e9gion. Ils trouvent que les taux de multilinguisme dans le Bas Fungom peuvent \u00eatre expliqu\u00e9s par des raisons sociales telles que le mariage, la proximit\u00e9 per\u00e7ue, la similarit\u00e9 entre les langues et la religion. Aussi, il y a une forte \u00e9vidence de multilinguisme pr\u00e9colonial en termes de relations commerciales et de recherche de s\u00e9curit\u00e9 en l\u2019absence de langue v\u00e9hiculaire. Les id\u00e9ologies langagi\u00e8res locales du Bas Fungom consistent \u00e0 cr\u00e9er le maximum de r\u00e9seaux sociaux pour son propre b\u00e9n\u00e9fice. Finalement, ce travail r\u00e9v\u00e8le que l\u2019utilisation d&#8217;une approche ethnographique permet que les chercheurs aient une meilleure id\u00e9e des caract\u00e9ristiques sociolinguistiques des habitants du Bas Fungom.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rural multilingualism in the North West Region of Cameroon: The case of Lower Fungom. 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