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Youth language practices in Africa and beyond / edited by Nico Nassenstein, Andrea Hollington.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Nassenstein, Nico, author.
- Series:
- Contributions to the sociology of language ; Volume 105.
- Contributions to the Sociology of Language, 1861-0676 ; Volume 105
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Youth--Language.
- Youth.
- Sociolinguistics.
- Africa--Languages.
- Africa.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (378 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Berlin, [Germany] ; Boston, [Massachusetts] : De Gruyter Mouton, 2015.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Youth languages have increasingly attracted the attention of scholars and students of various disciplines. African youth languages are a vibrant phenomenon with manifold characteristics involving a range of different languages. This book is a first comprehensive study of African youth languages and presents fresh insights into various youth languages, providing linguistic as well as sociolinguistic data and analyses.
- Contents:
- Front matter
- Acknowledgements
- Table of contents
- List of tables, maps and figures
- 1. Youth language practices in Africa as creative manifestations of fluid repertoires and markers of speakers’ social identity
- 2. Youth language practices in Africa: achievements and challenges
- 3. Sheng: an urban variety of Swahili in Kenya
- 4. The emergence of Langila in Kinshasa (DR Congo)
- 5. Identity construction and linguistic manipulation in Randuk
- 6. Regional varieties and “ethnic” registers of Sheng
- 7. Yarada K’wank’wa and urban youth identity in Addis Ababa
- 8. Overview of the tsotsitaals of South Africa; their different base languages and common core lexical items
- 9. Imvugo y’Umuhanda1 – youth language practices in Kigali (Rwanda)
- 10. Sango Godobé: the urban youth language of Bangui (CAR)
- 11. Some remarks on poetic aspects of Sheng
- 12. Youth language practices in Zimbabwe
- 13. The positive-negative phenomenon and phono-semantic matching in Rasta Talk
- 14. Kindoubil: urban youth languages in Kisangani
- 15. Linguistic strategies in Luyaaye: word play and conscious language manipulation
- 16. Conclusion and outlook: taking new directions in the study of youth language practices
- Language index
- Author index
- Subject index
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9781501501074
- 1501501070
- 9781614518525
- 1614518521
- OCLC:
- 927488573
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