Youth language practices in Africa and beyond /

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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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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Nassenstein, Nico (Contribuidor, Editor ), Hollington, Andrea (Contribuidor, Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Berlin ; Boston : De Gruyter Mouton, [2015]
Colección:Contributions to the Sociology of Language CSL.
Temas:
Youth > Language.
Sociolinguistics.
Sociolinguistique.
sociolinguistics.
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES > Linguistics > General.
Language and languages
Sociolinguistics
Youth > Language
Africa > Languages.
Afrique > Langues.
Africa
Language Arts & Disciplines.
Conference papers and proceedings
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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 / Hollington, Andrea ; Nassenstein, Nico
  • 2. Youth language practices in Africa: achievements and challenges / Beyer, Klaus
  • 3. Sheng: an urban variety of Swahili in Kenya / Beck, Rose Marie
  • 4. The emergence of Langila in Kinshasa (DR Congo) / Nassenstein, Nico
  • 5. Identity construction and linguistic manipulation in Randuk / Mugaddam, Abdelrahim Hamid
  • 6. Regional varieties and "ethnic" registers of Sheng / Kioko, Eric M.
  • 7. Yarada K'wank'wa and urban youth identity in Addis Ababa / Hollington, Andrea
  • 8. Overview of the tsotsitaals of South Africa; their different base languages and common core lexical items / Hurst, Ellen
  • 9. Imvugo y'Umuhanda1
  • youth language practices in Kigali (Rwanda) / Nassenstein, Nico
  • 10. Sango Godobé: the urban youth language of Bangui (CAR) / Landi, Germain ; Pasch, Helma
  • 11. Some remarks on poetic aspects of Sheng / Vierke, Clarissa
  • 12. Youth language practices in Zimbabwe / Hollington, Andrea ; Makwabarara, Tafadzwa
  • 13. The positive-negative phenomenon and phono-semantic matching in Rasta Talk / Schrenk, Havenol M.
  • 14. Kindoubil: urban youth languages in Kisangani / Wilson, Catherina
  • 15. Linguistic strategies in Luyaaye: word play and conscious language manipulation / Namyalo, Saudah
  • 16. Conclusion and outlook: taking new directions in the study of youth language practices / Hollington, Andrea ; Nassenstein, Nico
  • Language index
  • Author index
  • Subject index.

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