Youth Language Practices in Africa and Beyond

• Author(s): Nico Nassenstein, Andrea Hollington,
• Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
• Pages: 377
• ISBN_10: 1614518521
  ISBN_13: 9781614518525
  
• Language: en
• Categories: Language Arts & Disciplines / Linguistics / General , Language Arts & Disciplines / Linguistics / Historical & Comparative , Language Arts & Disciplines / General , Language Arts & Disciplines / Linguistics / Sociolinguistics ,

Description:...

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.