Youth language practices in Africa and beyond / / edited by Nico Nassenstein, Andrea Hollington
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| Autore: |
Nassenstein Nico
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| Titolo: |
Youth language practices in Africa and beyond / / edited by Nico Nassenstein, Andrea Hollington
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| Pubblicazione: | Berlin, [Germany] ; ; Boston, [Massachusetts] : , : De Gruyter Mouton, , 2015 |
| ©2015 | |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (378 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 417/.70835096 |
| Soggetto topico: | Youth - Language |
| Sociolinguistics | |
| Soggetto geografico: | Africa Languages |
| Soggetto non controllato: | Language Contact |
| Language Manipulation | |
| Linguistic Creativity | |
| Youth Language | |
| Persona (resp. second.): | NassensteinNico |
| HollingtonAndrea | |
| 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. |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Youth language practices in Africa and beyond |
| ISBN: | 1-5015-0107-0 |
| 1-61451-852-1 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910814387003321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
| Opac: | Controlla la disponibilità qui |
Serie:
Contributions to the sociology of language ; ; Volume 105.