Youth Language Practices in Africa and Beyond /

Youth Language Practices in Africa and Beyond / / ed. by Nico Nassenstein, Andrea Hollington.

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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...

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MitwirkendeR:
Beck, Rose Marie,
Beyer, Klaus,
Hollington, Andrea,
Hurst, Ellen,
Kioko, Eric M.,
Landi, Germain,
Makwabarara, Tafadzwa,
Mugaddam, Abdelrahim Hamid,
Namyalo, Saudah,
Nassenstein, Nico,
Pasch, Helma,
Schrenk, Havenol M.,
Vierke, Clarissa,
Wilson, Catherina,
HerausgeberIn:
Hollington, Andrea,
Nassenstein, Nico,
Place / Publishing House:Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter Mouton, , [2015]
©2015
Year of Publication:2015
Language:English
Series:Contributions to the Sociology of Language [CSL] , 105
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Physical Description:1 online resource (366 p.)
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505 0 0 |t Frontmatter --   |t Acknowledgements --   |t Table of contents --   |t List of tables, maps and figures --   |t 1. Youth language practices in Africa as creative manifestations of fluid repertoires and markers of speakers’ social identity --   |t 2. Youth language practices in Africa: achievements and challenges --   |t 3. Sheng: an urban variety of Swahili in Kenya --   |t 4. The emergence of Langila in Kinshasa (DR Congo) --   |t 5. Identity construction and linguistic manipulation in Randuk --   |t 6. Regional varieties and “ethnic” registers of Sheng --   |t 7. Yarada K’wank’wa and urban youth identity in Addis Ababa --   |t 8. Overview of the tsotsitaals of South Africa; their different base languages and common core lexical items --   |t 9. Imvugo y’Umuhanda1 – youth language practices in Kigali (Rwanda) --   |t 10. Sango Godobé: the urban youth language of Bangui (CAR) --   |t 11. Some remarks on poetic aspects of Sheng --   |t 12. Youth language practices in Zimbabwe --   |t 13. The positive-negative phenomenon and phono-semantic matching in Rasta Talk --   |t 14. Kindoubil: urban youth languages in Kisangani --   |t 15. Linguistic strategies in Luyaaye: word play and conscious language manipulation --   |t 16. Conclusion and outlook: taking new directions in the study of youth language practices --   |t Language index --   |t Author index --   |t Subject index 
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650 0 |a Sociolinguistics. 
650 0 |a Youth  |x Language. 
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653 |a Language Contact. 
653 |a Language Manipulation. 
653 |a Linguistic Creativity. 
653 |a Youth Language. 
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