Publications
Publication details [#51401]
Kouega, Jean-Paul. 2009. Campus English: lexical variations in Cameroon. International Journal of the Sociology of Language 2009 (199) : 89–101.
Publication type
Article in journal
Publication language
English
Keywords
Language as a subject
Place, Publisher
De Gruyter
Journal WWW
Annotation
This paper explores the secret youth slang of Anglophone students in Cameroonian State universities, created by incorporating non-standard lexical items into informal campus English through various processes such as borrowing, in order to make it incomprehensible to non-members, and to express goup solidarity.