Gendered Dichotomies in African Youth Language and Language Practices: Urban and Rural Spaces, Virtual and Real-Life Gendered Discourses
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Gendered Dichotomies in African Youth Language and Language Practices: Urban and Rural Spaces, Virtual and Real-Life Gendered Discourses

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Gendered Dichotomies in African Youth Language and Language Practices: Urban and Rural Spaces, Virtual and Real-Life Gendered Discourses

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About this book

Youth language data provides interesting perspectives on gender dynamics and gendered usage in society. However, the gender perspective has notreceived the deserved focus in youth language studies in Africa.This is partly due to the general perception that youth languages and classic youth language practices, such as slangand anti-language, are male-oriented. This collected volume focuses on gender dynamics and gendered usage in African youthlanguages and youth language practices, against the backdrop of urbanity as well as rurality. With representations from different parts of Africa, the volume examines sundry youth usage in different contexts and domains. While avoiding strict binarizations and potentially flawed dichotomies, the contributing scholars observe some of the motivationsfor different gender performatives and how these manifest in a variety of language forms and through predominated categories of use. Data samples were obtained through sociolinguistic and anthropological instruments, ranging from questionnaires and structured interviews to street-based observations and corpus analyses. On the whole, the volume engages the literature and debate on language, youth, and especially on gendering dynamics in African youth language practices.

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Publisher
ibidem
Year
2022
eBook ISBN
9783838277240
Edition
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Table of contents

  1. Table of Contents
  2. Acknowledgements
  3. Foreword
  4. 1 Gender(ed) Dichotomies in Language, and Youth Usage in African Settings
  5. 2 Gender Binaries in African Youth Language: The Case of Camfranglais
  6. 3 Gender, Age and Rural-Urban Dichotomies in S’ncamtho Familiarity and Usage in Zimbabwe
  7. 4 Clever or Smarter? Style and Indexicality in Gendered Constructions of Male and Female Youth Identities in Kenya and South Africa
  8. 5 From Slanging to Code-mixing …, Pidginization …, Antilanguages and Paroemic routines: Gender Dichotomies and Dynamics in the Language of Nigerian Undergraduates on Social Media Apps
  9. 6 Lugha ya Mitaani, Gender Stereotypes and Sexism. “Catcalling” as a Communicative Practice of Male Youths in Urban Public Spaces in Tanzania
  10. 7 Gender Stereotypes and Discriminatory Language in Luyaaye, Ugandan Youth Language
  11. 8 Hustling Vibaya : Femininities and the Modern Kenya Woman
  12. 9 Gender Dynamics in Camfranglais : A Study of Female and Male Cameroonian Musicians
  13. 10 Fluid Gender Identity Doing in the African Diaspora in New Zealand
  14. 11 ‘Baby, I’m coming’: The Linguistic Construction of Orgasm by Female Youth in Rural and Urban Nigeria
  15. 12 Intersecting Youth Digital Practices and Homosexuality: Identity Construction, Ideological Framing and Decolonisation in Homosexuality Narratives on Nigerian Twitter
  16. A Postscript