| African Youth Languages: New Media, Performing Arts and Sociolinguistic Development Softcover Repri Edition Contributor(s): Hurst-Harosh, Ellen (Editor), Kanana Erastus, Fridah (Editor) |
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ISBN: 3030097242 ISBN-13: 9783030097240 Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
Binding Type: Paperback - See All Available Formats & Editions Published: December 2018 |
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| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Foreign Language Study | African Languages (see Also Swahili) - Language Arts & Disciplines | Linguistics - Sociolinguistics - Performing Arts |
| Dewey: 306.44 |
| Physical Information: 0.5" H x 8.9" W x 8.4" L (0.70 lbs) 255 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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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