Descriptions of new varieties of European languages in postcolonial contexts have focused exceedingly on system-based indigenisation and variation. This volumeโwhile further illustrating processes and instantiations of indigenisation at this levelโincorporates investigations of sociolinguistic and pragmatic phenomena in daily social interactionโe.g. politeness, respect, compliment response, naming and address forms, and genderโthrough innovative analytic frameworks that view indigenisation from emic perspectives. Focusing on postcolonial Cameroon and using natural and questionnaire data, the book assesses the salience of linguistic and sociocultural hybridisation triggered by colonialism and, recently, globalisation in interaction in and across languages and cultures. The authors illustrate how the multilingual nature of the society and individualsโ multilingual repertoires shape patterns in the indigenisation and evolution of the ex-colonial languages, English and French, and Pidgin English.