Youth Language Practices and Urban Language Contact in Africa

Herausgeber: Mesthrie, Rajend; Brookes, Heather; Hurst-Harosh, Ellen

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Produktbeschreibung

This fascinating study explores male youth language practices in different urban centres in Africa, showing their relation to other urban languages, vernaculars and varieties, and testing and contesting claims of their autonomy and candidacy as national languages. It will provide new insights for scholars of language contact and sociolinguistics.

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Produktdetails

• Cambridge Approaches to Language Contact
• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• New ed
• Seitenzahl: 320
• Erscheinungstermin: 9. September 2021
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 14mm
• Gewicht: 474g
• ISBN-13: 9781107171206
• ISBN-10: 1107171202
• Artikelnr.: 62216765

Inhaltsangabe

1. Language Contact and Structure in Urban IsiXhosa and Associated Youth
Languages Silvester Ron Simango; 2. Not 'Deep' but Still IsiXhosa: Young
People's Urban IsiXhosa and its Relation to Tsotsitaal Tessa Dowling; 3.
Rethinking Youth Language Practices in South Africa: An Interactional
Sociocultural Perspective Heather Brookes; 4. Tsotsitaals, Urban
Vernaculars, and Contact Linguistics Rajend Mesthrie; 5. Grammatical
Hybridity in Camfranglais? Roland Kießling; 6. Sheng and Engsh in Kenya's
Public Spaces and Media: From Nganya and Mathree to Broadcast Proggiez
Maarten Mous and Sandra Barasa; 7. Exploring Hybridity in Ivorian French
and Nouchi Akissi Béatrice Boutin; 8 Authenticity and the Object of
Analysis: Methods of Youth Language Data Collection Ellen Hurst-Harosh and
Eyo Offiong Mensah; Index.