1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910797797303321

Autore

Nassenstein Nico

Titolo

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

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Berlin, [Germany] ; ; Boston, [Massachusetts] : , : De Gruyter Mouton, , 2015

©2015

ISBN

1-5015-0107-0

1-61451-852-1

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (378 p.)

Collana

Contributions to the Sociology of Language, , 1861-0676 ; ; Volume 105

Disciplina

417/.70835096

Soggetti

Youth - Language

Sociolinguistics

Africa Languages

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Nota di contenuto

Front matter -- 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

Sommario/riassunto

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.

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910954902303321

Titolo

Tourist clusters, destinations and competitiveness : theoretical issues and empirical evidences / / edited by Francesco Capone

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York : , : Routledge, , 2016

ISBN

1-315-70953-8

1-317-48623-4

1-317-48622-6

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (203 p.)

Collana

Routledge Advances in Regional Economics, Science and Policy ; ; 14

Altri autori (Persone)

CaponeFrancesco

Disciplina

338.4/791

338.4791

Soggetti

Tourism - Marketing

Tourism - Management

Place marketing

Hospitality industry

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; List of figures; List of tables; List of contributors; Tourist destinations, clusters and competitiveness: an introduction; PART I Tourist destinations, destination management, clusters and competitiveness; 1 A bibliometric analysis on tourist destinations research: focus on



destination management and tourist cluster; 2 Destination management and competitiveness: literature review and a destination competitiveness analysis; 3 The impact of related variety on tourist destinations: an analysis of tourist firms clustering

4 Defining tourist clusters in Europe: a micro-level data approachPART II Tourist clusters and performance, creative and experience economy; 5 Do tourist clusters boost hotels' performance?: resilience in a crisis period in Italy; 6 How does concentration affect hotels' performance?: an empirical study of USA panel data; 7 Tourism, creativity and entrepreneurship: new firm formation in Tuscany; 8 The experience-related economy in the UK; Index

Sommario/riassunto

Tourism has become one of the largest and fastest growing sectors in the world economy. Increasingly, research on tourism destinations has been at the centre of debates concerning destination competitiveness, governance, policies and destination management and marketing. This book investigates tourist destinations from two key perspectives and will appeal to academics, scholars and practitioners in tourism studies, management, urban and regional studies and economic geography, etc.