Overview
- Builds on a rapidly growing literature on African Urban Youth Languages to show that performing arts, creative arts and media are sites of sociolinguistic development
- Considers use of social media including Facebook, YouTube and Whatsapp by young people across the continent from countries as far afield as Kenya, Nigeria and Zimbabwe
- Explores current research into print media, television, and linguistic landscapes in Africa’s intersected urban centres
- Examines urban youth languages in the creative arts, particularly popular forms of music and poetry such as performance poetry and hip hop/ rap, as well as film
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Table of contents (11 chapters)
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Social and Advertising Media
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Music, Performance Poetry and Video
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About this book
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Ellen Hurst-Harosh is Senior Lecturer in the Humanities Education Development Unit at the University of Cape Town, South Africa. She has been an active researcher in the field of urban youth language since 2005, focusing in particular on the South African phenomenon ‘tsotsitaal’.
Fridah Kanana Erastus is Senior Lecturer at the Department of English and Linguistics, Kenyatta University, Kenya. Her research interests lie in dialectology, language use and multilingualism, language contact, African urban and youth languages, and English language pedagogy. She has published widely on these topics. From 2013, she has been a Project Leader for the Commonwealth of Learning funded Projects on “Open Resources for English Language Teaching (ORELT) in Kenya and East Africa.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: African Youth Languages
Book Subtitle: New Media, Performing Arts and Sociolinguistic Development
Editors: Ellen Hurst-Harosh, Fridah Kanana Erastus
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-64562-9
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2018
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-64561-2Published: 15 March 2018
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-09724-0Published: 19 December 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-64562-9Published: 06 March 2018
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XV, 255
Topics: African Languages, Sociolinguistics, Applied Linguistics, Multilingualism, Performing Arts, Slang and Jargon