Linguistic Landscapes and Multilingualism in Yaound? Cameroon: Sociolinguistic and socio-cognitive processes at work (Hardcover)

Introduction ? Cameroon’s colonial past and its present sociolinguistic situation: Language policy, diversity and the marginalisation of languages ? Approaching the linguistic landscape - LL tokens, and multimodality in the African context(s)? Setting the scene: The research site and methodology ? Types of signs in the linguistic landscape: Towards a cognitive-functional approach ? Multilingualism and the linguistic landscape: Multilingual signs, language contact and translanguaging ? Culture and the linguistic landscape: Local language use and other semiotic representations ? Governmental signs and the linguistic landscape: The renegotiation of space, language policy implications and prototypicality ?(Multilingual) advertisements and the role of English in Yaounde’s linguistic landscape ? Language in the linguistic landscape - A conclusion ? References .