Youth Language Practices in Africa and Beyond

by Nico Nassenstein (Editor), Andrea Hollington (Editor)

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781614518624
Publisher:	De Gruyter
Publication date:	08/28/2015
Series:	Contributions to the Sociology of Language [CSL] , #105
Pages:	377
Product dimensions:	6.10(w) x 9.06(h) x (d)
Age Range:	18 Years

About the Author

Nico Nassenstein and Andrea Hollington, University of Cologne, Germany.