Language Diversity and Language Choice: A View from a Cameroon Market
Language Diversity and Language Choice: A View from a Cameroon Market
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语言多样性和语言选择：来自喀麦隆市场的看法
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2010
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B. Connell
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B. Connell
本文报告的研究的直接目标是探索喀麦隆一个高度多语言的小村庄市场中语言选择的限制。这样做，既提供了对村庄所在地区的语言生态的见解，也提供了对非洲农村多语言条件的见解，其中绝大多数此类研究都是以城市为基础的。使用两种调查方法。第一个记录了个人访问市场时遇到的语言遭遇；第二个涉及分析单个市场日内大量交易的语言选择。记录了十四种不同的语言，其中两种语言，即村庄的主要语言和地区通用语言，争夺主导地位。
The immediate goal of the research reported here is to explore constraints on choice of language in the market of a small, highly multilingual village in Cameroon. In so doing, insight is provided both on the language ecology of the region in which the village is situated and on conditions of multilingualism in rural Africa, where the large majority of such research has been urban-based. Two investigative methods are used. The first documents the language encounters of an individual visit to market; the second involves analyzing language choice in a large number of transactions over the course of a single market day. Fourteen different languages were recorded with two, the primary language of the village and the regional lingua franca, vying for predominance.