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Youth language practices and urban language contact in Africa / edited by Rajend Mesthrie, Ellen Hurst-Harosh, Heather Brookes.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Cambridge approaches to language contact.
- Cambridge approaches to language contact
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Languages in contact--South Africa.
- Languages in contact.
- Urban Black people--South Africa--Language.
- Urban Black people.
- Urban youth--South Africa--Language.
- Urban youth.
- Urban dialects--South Africa.
- Urban dialects.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xxii, 205 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2021.
- Summary:
- The ways in which young people use language provides fascinating insights into language practice and contact. Written by a team of key scholars in the field, this book describes and theorises 'male, in-group, street-aligned, youth language practice' in urban centres in Africa, exploring the creative use of language, and its function in peer sociality and contestation of social identities. The book contributes to theoretical debates surrounding multimodal language, language contact, standards and variation, and language change. It highlights that 'youth languages' are not to be confused with the urban languages, varieties, and vernaculars of the general population, and that claims of autonomy and candidacy as national languages are flawed. The book demonstrates that the youthful practices of males are nevertheless worthy of scholarly attention: the framing of youth languages within the field of language contact will stimulate situated and comprehensive studies of the role and significance of youth practices.
- Contents:
- Introduction / Rajend Mesthrie, Ellen Hurst-Harosh & Heather Brookes
- Language contact and structure in urban iIsiXhosa and its relation to Tsotsitaal / Silvester Ron Simango
- Not "deep" but still isiXhosa : young people's urban isiXhosa and its relation to Tsotsitaal / Tessa Dowling
- Rethinking youth language practices in South Africa : an interactional sociocultural perspective / Heather Brookes
- Tsotsitaals, urban vernaculars, and contact linguistics / Rajend Mesthrie
- Grammatical hybridity in Camfranglais? / Roland Kiesslin
- Sheng and Engsh in Kenya's public spaces and media : from Nganya and Mathree to broadcast Proggiez / Maarten Mous & Sandra Barasa
- Exploring hybridity in Ivorian French and Nouchi / Akissi Béatrice Boutin
- Authenticity and the object analysis : methods of youth language data collection / Ellen Hurst-Harosh & Eyo Offion Mensah.
- Notes:
- Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 20 Aug 2021).
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 1-316-76236-X
- 1-316-76740-X
- 1-316-75976-8
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