Gendered Dichotomies In African Youth Language And Language Practices
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Gendered Dichotomies In African Youth Language And Language Practices Urban And Rural Spaces Virtual And Real Life Gendered Discourses
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Author : Comfort Ojongkpot
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2022
Gendered Dichotomies In African Youth Language And Language Practices Urban And Rural Spaces Virtual And Real Life Gendered Discourses written by Comfort Ojongkpot and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022 with African languages categories.
Gendered Dichotomies In African Youth Language And Language Practices
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Author : Taiwo Oloruntoba-Oju
language : en
Publisher: Ibidem Press
Release Date : 2022-09-12
Gendered Dichotomies In African Youth Language And Language Practices written by Taiwo Oloruntoba-Oju and has been published by Ibidem Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-09-12 with categories.
Youth language data provides interesting perspectives on gender dynamics and gendered usage in society. However, the gender perspective has not received the deserved focus in youth language studies in Africa. This is partly due to the general perception that youth languages and classic youth language practices, such as slang and anti-language, are male-oriented. This collected volume focuses on gender dynamics and gendered usage in African youth languages and youth language practices, against the backdrop of urbanity as well as rurality. With representations from different parts of Africa, the volume examines sundry youth usage in different contexts and domains. While avoiding strict binarizations and potentially flawed dichotomies, the contributing scholars observe some of the motivations for different gender performatives and how these manifest in a variety of language forms and through predominated categories of use. Data samples were obtained through sociolinguistic and anthropological instruments, ranging from questionnaires and structured interviews to street-based observations and corpus analyses. On the whole, the volume engages the literature and debate on language, youth, and especially on gendering dynamics in African youth language practices.
Youth Language Practices And Urban Language Contact In Africa
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Author : Rajend Mesthrie
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2021-09-09
Youth Language Practices And Urban Language Contact In Africa written by Rajend Mesthrie and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-09-09 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
An up-to-date, theoretically informed study of male, in-group, street-aligned, youth language practice in various urban centres in Africa.
Youth Language Practices In Africa And Beyond
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Author : Nico Nassenstein
language : en
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Release Date : 2015-09-14
Youth Language Practices In Africa And Beyond written by Nico Nassenstein and has been published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-09-14 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
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.
Gender And Language In Sub Saharan Africa
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Author : Lilian Lem Atanga
language : en
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing
Release Date : 2013
Gender And Language In Sub Saharan Africa written by Lilian Lem Atanga and has been published by John Benjamins Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
Gender and Language in Sub-Saharan Africa: Tradition, Struggle and Change is the first book to bring together the topics of language and gender, African languages, and gender in African contexts, and it does so in a descriptive, explanatory and critical way. Including fascinating new work and new, often challenging data from Botswana, Chad, Ghana, Kenya, Nigeria and South Africa, this collection looks at some 'traditional' uses of language in relation to the gender of its speakers and the gendered nature of the languages themselves; it also identifies and explores social change in terms of both gender and sexuality, as reflected in and constructed by language and discourse. The contributions to this volume are accessibly written and will be of interest to students and established academics working on African sociolinguistics and discourse, as well as those whose interest is language, gender and sexuality.
African Youth Languages
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Author : Ellen Hurst-Harosh
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2018
African Youth Languages written by Ellen Hurst-Harosh and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018 with African languages categories.
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 Zimbabwe, 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. 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.
Linguistic And Sociolinguistic Perspectives Of Youth Language Practices In Africa
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Author : G. Atindogbe
language : en
Publisher: African Books Collective
Release Date : 2019-11-16
Linguistic And Sociolinguistic Perspectives Of Youth Language Practices In Africa written by G. Atindogbe and has been published by African Books Collective this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-11-16 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
With the demographic explosion of young people in major African cities, we are witnessing the emergence of youth languages and new speech forms. In search of well-being, these young people, plagued by poverty, social injustice, unemployment and idleness, invent linguistic codes that allow them to find themselves. The linguistic and sociolinguistic description of these youth languages is the object of this volume. The contributions inform on the statutes and functions of the youth languages of Africa, their forms and structures, their representations, and envisage perspectives and prospective didactics.
African Urban And Youth Languages
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Author : Josef Schmied
language : en
Publisher: Cuvillier Verlag
Release Date : 2019-08-29
African Urban And Youth Languages written by Josef Schmied and has been published by Cuvillier Verlag this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-08-29 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
The European Conference on African Studies, held in 2017 in Basel, Switzerland, provided a platform for scholars working on African youth languages from bases in Africa, Europe and North America to jointly examine issues relating to the rural -urban divide in African youth languages. This is documented in the current volume. Contributors ponder the virtual absence of indigenous, non-colonial languages of Africa in studied African youth language corpora. They demonstrate that, notwithstanding the surface linguistic appearance of the African youth languages and practices that have engaged the attention of scholars, the languages ultimately bear the mark and intensity of the rural and indigenous as a major and sometimes dominant component. This points to the need for paradigms or models that incorporate rural-indigenous factors in African youth language scholarship.
Tsotsitaal In South Africa
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Author : Ellen Hurst-Harosh
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2020
Tsotsitaal In South Africa written by Ellen Hurst-Harosh and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020 with categories.
Tsotsitaal studies, broadly defined as the study of youth speech registers in South Africa, is a field of South African sociolinguistics that has been garnering attention for several decades. This book draws together the findings of this field of study in one cohesive monograph. The book both maps a field and describes a linguistic phenomenon. Tsotsitaal is approached from a number of different perspectives: socio-historical, grammatical, lexical, and attitudinal. The main theoretical focus is on style and metaphor. The conceptualisation of Tsotsitaal as style and styling in language is the way the relationship between Tsotsitaal and the South African languages is conceptualised; while metaphor is the tool used to understand the lexicon of Tsotsitaal, beyond descriptions of slang. The book therefore aims to provide an overarching perspective on the phenomenon, and at the same time, contribute to the theoretical tools that can be used to study similar practices elsewhere ? the creative language generated by youth in peer groups around the world.0The main chapters of the book describe the sociohistorical background to the Tsotsitaal phenomenon, the context of its emergence and development, and the conditions of its use today; the debates around the grammatical characteristics of Tsotsitaal, and its classification as a stylised register of an urban variety; perceptions of Tsotsitaal by both speakers and listeners, as well as the purpose or functions in use; the centrality of style and metaphor to Tsotsitaal including extra-linguistic markers, particularly gesture, and the centrality of relexicalisation in Tsotsitaal. The book offers possible future directions for Tsotsitaal and African Youth Language research.0.
Gender Based Differences In Exposure To And Usage Of Camfranglais In Yaound
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Author : Gardy Stein
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Release Date : 2022-03-18
Gender Based Differences In Exposure To And Usage Of Camfranglais In Yaound written by Gardy Stein and has been published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-03-18 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
This highly engaging and innovative book about the Cameroonian youth language Camfranglais explores gender-based differences in exposure to, and usage of, the variety through a comparative study. It thus adopts a rare gender-based approach to the highly complex linguistic phenomenon Camfranglais, a mix of French, Verlan, English, Pidgin and Cameroonian languages. While youth language studies flourish in sociolinguistic research, this book’s explicit focus on female speakers, their linguistic attitudes and experiences of exclusion, is unique. It investigates which factors influence language choice among young, urban speakers and especially what contributes to the overall male dominance in the usage of Camfranglais. To achieve this goal, the attitudes of both adolescents and adults as well as the channels of reproduction and distribution of the variety are examined. A special focus is laid on the processes of conscious transformation and exclusion by which male speakers try to restrict the access for female speakers. The book will appeal to academic scholars from a wide variety of fields, such as (African) linguistics, anthropology, sociology, and gender-studies, as well as the general reader who wants to learn about an exciting language contact scenario and its outcome.