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Youth Language Practices and Urban Language Contact in Africa (Hardcover, New Ed)
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Youth Language Practices and Urban Language Contact in Africa (Hardcover, New Ed)
Series: Cambridge Approaches to Language Contact
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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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