OLAC Record oai:soas.ac.uk:MPI1101529

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Title:		Interaction in a public setting
		Kell_Interaction-Public_01
		A Documentation of Bati Language and Oral Traditions
Contributor:		ASSOMO
		MAKON
Contributor (consultant):		MBESSI MAKONDO
		MATOLO
		ESSIAKO
		BONG-B
Coverage:		Cameroon
Date:		2017-06-11
Description:		Interactions in a public setting refer to naturally occuring speech events which happen in open social spaces such as market place, public meeting, village chief's courtyard, bar, etc. This kind of interactions differ from those which occur in private spaces in the sense that both settings do not lend themselves to the same frames of discourse.
		The project to Document aspects of Bati language and oral traditions is an original idea of Dr Emmanuel-Moselly Makasso, who had initially surveyed the Bati speech area as part of a pilot research project granted by the Ministry of Scientific Research and Technological Innovation of the Republic of Cameroon. Based on the results of this pilot research which have revealed a situation of critical endangerment of Bati language and ancestral practices, the idea to submit a major documentation project to ELDP has matured. The project has eventually been submitted during the 2015 funding round with Dr Emmanuel Ngué Um as Principal Investigator, and Dr Emmanuel-Moselly Makasso as co-applicant. The project started in October 1st, 2015, and will run till the 30th of September in 2018.
		This session is the continuation of the session entitled "Community Life - part 1- Kelleng". Both session have been recorded in a row without interruption. Therefore, in terms of setting and participants, both sessions should be considered as the same speech event. However, in terms of speech genre and discourse frame, it has been deemed necessary to divide the recording into two separate sessions. The first session is more of an interview, involving a researcher who prompts the participants to react to specific topics of discussion, while the second session is free interaction.
		The main medium of interaction if Kelleng the local speech variety. There is also casual usage of French and Basaa.
		Assomo Celestine Ghislaine is a PhD student who is enroled in the Linguistic program at the University of Yaoundé I, Department of African Languages and Linguistics. She has completed her gratuade program in the same Department, and later on graduated with a Master's Degree in descriptive Linguistics in 2015. Ghislaine Assomo is part of the research team working on the documentation of Bati language and Oral traditions. She works on the project on a part-time basis; the remaining part of her schedule being devoted to her PhD research, which deals with aspects of Multilingualism within the broader area covered by the overall Bati Canton.
		Gwladys Makon is a team research member for the Bati projet. She is enrolled in the PHD programme at the Department of African Languages and Linguistics. Makon is a PHD fellow for the Bati projet, and she is mainly concerned with providing a comprehensive grammatical description of Bati language, all three dialects inclusive. During her undergraduate study at the Department of African Languages and Linguistics at the University of Yaoundé I, Gwladys Makon has red, among others, the followingn subjets: Introduction to general linguistics, phonetics, phonology (with special emphasis on Bantu languages), introduction to sociolinguistics, language teaching, language planning, etc.
		Mbessi Makondo Gilbert as acted as one of the key informants for the research team during the first year of the project. Due to his extensive multilingualism coupled with a high sense of public network and relations, he has assisted the research team in most of their whereabouts throughout the various consultants who have agreed to lend themselves to research exercises. In some cases, Mbessi Gilbert has acted as the interviewer. This approach has been privileged in surveys dealing with anthropological, cultural and religous aspects. He had been trained by the research team in the monitoring of interviews, and in questionnaire administration, and has proven to be a talented and committed research assistant.
		Rémon Matolo is one of the main consultants for the Bati project. He is the younger brother of the Canton's Chief, who is settled in Yaoundé on regular basis. In this capacity, he is the actual ruling Chief in the Canton, and is refered to by the population for any matter which requires mediation from the Chiefdom.
		Essiako is a natvie of Kelleng, eventhough his father had settled in the villag for business reasons more than 50 years ago. His father was of Hausa origin and his mother was Basaa. Essiako spent part of his young age in Kelleng and as such, he is considered as full-fledged Kelleng son. He has also lived in Edea with his parents during his teenage.
Format:		video/mp4
		audio/x-wav
Identifier:		oai:soas.ac.uk:MPI1101529
		MDP0332
Identifier (URI):		https://lat1.lis.soas.ac.uk/ds/asv?openpath=MPI1101529%23
Publisher:		Ngué Um Emmanuel
		International Center for Research and Documentation on African Traditions and Languages (CERDOTOLA)
Subject:		Discourse
		Conversation
		Unspecified
Type:		Video
		Audio
OLAC Info
Archive:		Endangered Languages Archive
Description:		http://www.language-archives.org/archive/soas.ac.uk
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OaiIdentifier:		oai:soas.ac.uk:MPI1101529
DateStamp:		2019-03-31
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Citation:		ASSOMO; MAKON; MBESSI MAKONDO (consultant); MATOLO (consultant); ESSIAKO (consultant); BONG-B (consultant). 2017-06-11. Ngué Um Emmanuel.