Appraisal of Neologisms in Crisis Periods in Cameroon Media Landscape Between 2016 and 2021


Keyword : Neologisms, Anglophone Crisis, Cameroon Media, landscaping, new Englishes


Author(s) : AFUTENDEM Lucas Nkwettta, PhD

Abstract :   

This research work examines the Cameroon media landscape that has been operating inside the socio-political pandemonium called Anglophone Crisis. This has exacerbated to a full-fledge war since 2016 between the separatist fighters and the national state and security forces. This "Anglophone crisis" that broke out following a strike action by Cameroon Anglophone lawyers and teachers in the two English-speaking regions of Cameroon has produced new words and expressions that are entering into mainstream usage of English in Cameroon. Social actors, both national and international, have taken different media platforms to provide different and conflicting accounts of the crisis and this is done in new language. What are the various categories of neologisms that have emerged during the crisis and what are the impacts of these neologisms on the Anglophone crisis? What explains the emergence of neologisms during crisis (in Cameroon) and how do neologisms contribute to the deeper understanding of the Anglophone problem? The Framing Theory, propounded by Entman, (1993) which holds that language use is a function of the expectations of the user is used to analyse the collected data from the Cameroon media landscape. The diverse neologisms that have emanated and surfaced from the Anglophone crisis could be linked to identity, radicalism

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