Youth Language Practices in Africa and Beyond

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Youth Language Practices in Africa and Beyond

Author	: Nico Nassenstein
File Size	: 54,8 Mb
Publisher	: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Language	: English
Release Date	: 14 September 2015
ISBN	: 9781614518525
Pages	: 377 pages

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Youth Language Practices in Africa and Beyond by Nico Nassenstein Book PDF Summary

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.

Youth Language Practices in Africa and Beyond by Nico Nassenstein,Andrea Hollington

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

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