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UNINA9910797797303321 |
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Autore |
Nassenstein Nico |
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Youth language practices in Africa and beyond / / edited by Nico Nassenstein, Andrea Hollington |
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Berlin, [Germany] ; ; Boston, [Massachusetts] : , : De Gruyter Mouton, , 2015 |
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©2015 |
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1-5015-0107-0 |
1-61451-852-1 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (378 p.) |
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Contributions to the Sociology of Language, , 1861-0676 ; ; Volume 105 |
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Soggetti |
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Youth - Language |
Sociolinguistics |
Africa Languages |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and indexes. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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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 |
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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. |
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UNINA9910954902303321 |
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Titolo |
Tourist clusters, destinations and competitiveness : theoretical issues and empirical evidences / / edited by Francesco Capone |
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Pubbl/distr/stampa |
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New York : , : Routledge, , 2016 |
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1-315-70953-8 |
1-317-48623-4 |
1-317-48622-6 |
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Edizione |
[1st ed.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (203 p.) |
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Collana |
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Routledge Advances in Regional Economics, Science and Policy ; ; 14 |
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Altri autori (Persone) |
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Tourism - Marketing |
Tourism - Management |
Place marketing |
Hospitality industry |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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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 |
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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 |
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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. |
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