Youth language practices in Africa and beyond / edited by Nico Nassenstein, Andrea Hollington.

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TextSeries: Contributions to the Sociology of Language CSLPublisher: Berlin ; Boston : De Gruyter Mouton, [2015]Copyright date: ©2015Description: 1 online resource (xi, 366 pages) : illustrationsContent type:

text

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computer

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online resource

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9781501501074
1501501070
9781614518525
1614518521

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Additional physical formats: Print version:: Youth Language Practices in Africa and Beyond.DDC classification:

417/.70835096 23

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P120.Y68

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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 / 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.

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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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.