Descriptions of new varieties of European languages in postcolonial contexts have focused exceedingly on system-based indigenisation and variation. This volume while further illustrating processes and instantiations of indigenisation at this level incorporates investigations of sociolinguistic and pragmatic phenomena in daily social interaction e.g. politeness, respect, compliment response, naming and address forms, and gender through innovative analytic frameworks that view indigenisation from emic perspectives. Focusing on postcolonial Cameroon and using natural and questionnaire data, the...