Linguistic Landscapes and Multilingualism in Yaoundé, Cameroon

Neele Mundt is a lecturer in English linguistics at the University of Koblenz-Landau, Germany. She works in the field of sociolinguistics with a focus on English in central Africa. She spent one year in Yaoundé, where she collected field data for her research project situated at the juncture of (cognitive) sociolinguistics and linguistic landscape studies in Cameroon. Her research interests include multilingualism, (cognitive) sociolinguistics and applied linguistics in general, and with a focus on Africa in particular.

• 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 Yaoundé’s linguistic landscape — Language in the linguistic landscape - A conclusion — References .