Publications

Publication details [#53006]

Mulo Farenkia, Bernard. 2010. Pragmatique de la néologie appellative en situation plurilingue : le cas camerounais. Journal of Pragmatics 42 (2) : 477–500.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

French

Keywords

address | communicative need | neologism | pragmatics | social relationship

Language as a subject

French | French, Cameroon

Place, Publisher

Elsevier

Journal WWW

www.sciencedirect.com/web-editions

Annotation

This study discusses how, in the absence of (apt) French address terms, francophone Cameroonian people have invented new linguistic forms of address to fulfill their communicative and social needs.