Youth Language Practices and Urban Language Contact in Africa
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Youth Language Practices and Urban Language Contact in Africa

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Youth Language Practices and Urban Language Contact in Africa

About this book

The ways in which young people use language provides fascinating insights into language practice and contact. Written by a team of key scholars in the field, this book describes and theorises 'male, in-group, street-aligned, youth language practice' in urban centres in Africa, exploring the creative use of language, and its function in peer sociality and contestation of social identities. The book contributes to theoretical debates surrounding multimodal language, language contact, standards and variation, and language change. It highlights that 'youth languages' are not to be confused with the urban languages, varieties, and vernaculars of the general population, and that claims of autonomy and candidacy as national languages are flawed. The book demonstrates that the youthful practices of males are nevertheless worthy of scholarly attention: the framing of youth languages within the field of language contact will stimulate situated and comprehensive studies of the role and significance of youth practices.

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Yes, you can access Youth Language Practices and Urban Language Contact in Africa by Rajend Mesthrie,Ellen Hurst-Harosh,Heather Brookes in PDF and/or ePUB format, as well as other popular books in Languages & Linguistics & Linguistics. We have over one million books available in our catalogue for you to explore.

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half-title
  3. Series information
  4. Title page
  5. Copyright information
  6. Contents
  7. List of Figures
  8. List of Tables
  9. List of Contributors
  10. Series Editor's Foreword
  11. Preface
  12. List Abbreviations
  13. Introduction
  14. 1 Language Contact and Structure in Urban IsiXhosa and Associated Youth Languages
  15. 2 Not 'Deep' but Still IsiXhosa: Young People's Urban IsiXhosa and Its Relation to Tsotsitaal
  16. 3 Rethinking Youth Language Practices in South Africa:: An Interactional Sociocultural Perspective
  17. 4 Tsotsitaals, Urban Vernaculars and Contact Linguistics
  18. 5 Grammatical Hybridity in Camfranglais?
  19. 6 Sheng and Engsh in Kenya's Public Spaces and Media
  20. 7 Exploring Hybridity in Ivorian French and Nouchi
  21. 8 Authenticity and the Object of Analysis: Methods of Youth Language Data Collection
  22. Index