Linguistic Landscapes and Multilingualism in Yaounde, Cameroon

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 .

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Cameroon; cognitive; Frank; Landscapes; Linguistic; Michael; Multilingualism; Mundt; Neele; Polzenhagen; processes; Ruecker; socio; Sociolinguistic; work; Yaounde