Youth Language Practices in Africa and Beyond

Bibliographic Data

ID20415455
EditorsNico Nassenstein (0000-0001-9530-2949), Andrea Hollington (0000-0001-7238-403X)
Year2015
Publication date2015-01-01
Open AccessNo
TypeBOOK
VenueYouth Language Practices in Africa and Beyond (SOURCE_BOOK)
PublisherDe Gruyter, Inc. (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1515/9781614518525
OpenAlexW2134245485
ISBN9781614518525
Open LibraryOL39924319M
LanguageEN
Citations received18

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.

Geography · language variation · Linguistics · Multilingualism · sociolinguistics of youth · youth language · youth language practices · Linguistic and Sociocultural Studies · Linguistic Variation and Morphology · Linguistics, Language Diversity, and Identity · Multilingual Education and Policy · Philosophy · Africa · Languages