African youth languages : new media, performing arts and sociolinguistic development /

African youth languages : new media, performing arts and sociolinguistic development /

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Imprint:	Cham : This Palgrave Macmillan imprint is published by Springer Nature, [2018] ©2018
Description:	xv, 255 pages : color illustrations ; 22 cm
Language:	English
Subject:	Youth -- Africa -- Language. Sociolinguistics -- Africa. Sociolinguistics. Youth -- Language. Africa.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11465047

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Other authors / contributors:	Hurst-Harosh, Ellen, editor. Erastus, Kanana Fridah, 1978- editor.
ISBN:	9783319645612 3319645617
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary:	This book showcases current research on language in new media, the performing arts and music in Africa, emphasising the role that youth play in language change and development. The authors demonstrate how the efforts of young people to throw off old colonial languages and create new local ones has become a site of language creativity. Analysing the language of?new media?, including social media, print media and new media technologies, and of creative arts such as performance poetry, hip-hop and rap, they use empirical research from such diverse countries as Cameroon, Nigeria, Kenya, the Ivory Coast and South Africa. This original edited collection will appeal to students and scholars of African sociolinguistics, particularly in the light of the rapidly changing globalized context in which we live.

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Call Number:	P40.45.A35 A37 2018
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