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

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Contributions to the Sociology of Language [CSL] ; 105Publisher: Berlin ; Boston : De Gruyter Mouton, [2015]Copyright date: ©2015Description: 1 online resource (366 p.)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 9781614518624
  • 9781501501074
  • 9781614518525
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 417/.70835096 23
LOC classification:
  • P120.Y68 N37 2015
Other classification:
  • online - DeGruyter
Online resources: Available additional physical forms:
  • Issued also in print.
Contents:
Frontmatter -- 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
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.
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Frontmatter -- 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

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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 presents fresh insights into various youth languages, providing linguistic as well as sociolinguistic data and analyses.

Issued also in print.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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