Youth Language Practices and Urban Language Contact in Africa

An up-to-date, theoretically informed study of male, in-group, street-aligned, youth language practice in various urban centres in Africa.

List of contents

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.

Summary

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.

Product details

• Authors: Rajend (University of Cape Town) Hurst-H Mesthrie
• Assisted by: Heather Brookes (Editor), Heather (University of Cape Town) Brookes (Editor), Brookes Heather (Editor), Ellen Hurst-Harosh (Editor), Ellen (University of Cape Town) Hurst-Harosh (Editor), Rajend Mesthrie (Editor), Rajend (University of Cape Town) Mesthrie (Editor), Mesthrie Rajend (Editor)
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.09.2021
• EAN: 9781107171206
• ISBN: 978-1-107-17120-6
• No. of pages: 320
• Series: Cambridge Approaches to Language Contact; Cambridge Approaches to Langua
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative linguistics; French, Africa, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / General, Sociolinguistics, Caribbean islands, Southern Africa, Urban communities, Age groups: adolescents, isiXhosa (Xhosa), isiZulu (Zulu), Urban communities / city life