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Sheng : rise of a Kenyan Swahili vernacular /
African multilingualism is changing the languages and identities of urban communities, and indeed entire nations. Sheng, a non-standard variety of Kenyan Swahili closely associated with Nairobi's low-income urban youth, reflects the dynamics of rapid, on-going urbanisation processes taking plac...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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[Place of publication not identified] :
JAMES CURREY,
2018.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 1 Sheng as Kenyan Swahili. Folk theories of Sheng
- Dialects and vernaculars
- 'Urban youth languages'
- Is Sheng a pidgin or a creole?
- Kinubi: a creole language of Kenya
- Other African creoles: Snago, Lingala and Nigerian Pidgin English
- Swahili as a macrolanguage
- So, what is Sheng?
- 'Kenyanese': a continuum of speech codes
- 2 An overview of language in Kenya: power vs solidarity. Swahili and nationalism
- Language and state identity: Kenya vs Tanzania
- The policy of language in education
- 3 Nairobi: a linguistic mosaic and crucible of Sheng. The colonial city
- The sociolinguistic context
- Attitudes towards Sheng and other languages
- Vernacular Swahilis
- The experiment
- Teenage attitudes towards languages
- Adult attitudes towards Sheng and Kenayn Swahili
- Observations
- Summary
- 4 'Kenyan Swahili': complex and multifaceted. Grammatical features of Kenyan Swahili
- Analogical change
- Habitual tense -anga
- Rule extension: plural suffix -ni
- Diminutive ka- and augmentative ki-
- Phonology
- enye relative pronoun
- Noun classification
- Locatives -ni and -ko
- Contact influences on Kenyan Swahili
- Dholuo
- Gikuyu
- Gikuyu slang in Sheng
- 5 Features of Sheng. Phonological innovations
- Lexical borrowing
- Meaning shift
- Polysemy
- Synonymy
- Transpositions (Pig Latin)
- Sheng verbs
- Narratives of local experience
- Analysis of Sheng narratives
- Grammar in Sheng narratives
- Content of Sheng narratives
- Summary
- 6 Expanded domains and global influences. The Nairobian newspaper
- Sheng in social media
- GoSheng
- Sheng and the jua kali economy
- Sheng and corporate advertising
- Sheng in rural areas and schools
- Sheng and the diaspora (majuu): transatlantic influences
- Sheng in reggae
- Jamaicanisms in Sheng
- (Ma- )Babi
- 'Big Up'
- 7 Sheng in practice. 'Kuna Sheng' lyrics by Jua Cali
- Ghetto Radio FM: 'the official Sheng station'
- Bonoko Deh
- Shujaaz
- 8 Conclusion: the rise of a Swahili vernacular. The Sheng generation
- Language attitudes
- Sheng in education and the question of vernacular instruction
- Is Sheng the real McCoy?
- Appendix: The Nairobian, 'Landlord Anakunyima Hao'.