Postcolonial Linguistic Voices

Frontmatter -- Preface / Anchimbe, Eric A. / Mforteh, Stephen A. -- Contents -- Introduction -- Chapter 1. Postcolonial linguistic voices: Stitching together identity choices and their representations / Anchimbe, Eric A. -- Part I. Postcolonial identities: Age, gender, ethnicity, and language -- Chapter 2. U r ma treasure bila measure. Identity construction in Kenya's multilingual spaces / Meierkord, Christiane -- Chapter 3. Gender and cultural identity in a television show in Botswana / Ellece, Sibonile Edith -- Chapter 4. The English language and the construction of a Cameroon anglophone identity / Anchimbe, Eric A. -- Part II. Nationhood discourses: Language, policy, and politics -- Chapter 5. Nation-statehood and linguistic diversity in the postcolony: The case of Portuguese and indigenous languages in Mozambique / Firmino, Gregório -- Chapter 6. The emergence of an indigenous language as lingua franca: The case of Luganda in Uganda / Ssempuuma, Jude -- Chapter 7. Roles and identities in postcolonial political discourse in Cameroon / Mforteh, Stephen A. -- Part III. Translating the postcolonial: Religion and lexicography -- Chapter 8. Contesting the sacred in Tamil: Missionary translations and Protestant scriptures in colonial South India / Israel, Hephzibah -- Chapter 9. What mental images reveal about religious lexemes in Yoruba and English in present-day Nigerian churches / Odidiomo, Folorunso -- Chapter 10. Foreign culture lexicography and beyond: Perspectives from the history of Igbo lexicography / Uchechukwu, Chinedu -- Part IV. Living the postcolonial: Local tongues in ex-colonial languages -- Chapter 11. Lexical gap, semantic incongruence, and the medium-of-learning effect: Evidence from Chinese-English code-switching in Hong Kong and Taiwan / Li, David C. S. -- Chapter 12. Lamnso' English: A study in ethnic variation in Cameroon English / Sala, Bonaventure M. -- Part V. Colonising the coloniser: Ex-colonialist discourses and immigration -- Chapter 13. Postcolonial continuities in Danish monolingual dictionaries: Towards a critical postcolonial linguistics / Hornscheidt, Antje Lann -- Chapter 14. Cape Verdean Creole in Lisbon: The young generation's perspective / Märzhäuser, Christina -- Chapter 15. Code-switching among Igbo-Nigerian immigrants in Padua (Italy) / Goglia, Francesco -- Conclusion -- Chapter 16. Meeting of the exs: The ex-colonised meets the ex-coloniser / Mforteh, Stephen A. -- Contributors -- Subject Index -- Author index