African Youth Languages: New Media, Performing Arts and Sociolinguistic Development

By: Ellen Hurst-Harosh and Fridah Kanana Erastus

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Synopsis: 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.

Book Quality:: Publisher Quality
ISBN-13:: 9783319645629
Related ISBNs:: 9783319645612
Publisher:: Springer International Publishing
Date of Addition:: 03/15/18
Copyrighted By:: N/A
Adult content:: No
Language:: English
Has Image Descriptions:: No
Categories:: Entertainment, Nonfiction, Art and Architecture, Language Arts, Foreign Language Study, Sociology
Submitted By:: Bookshare Staff
Usage Restrictions:: This is a copyrighted book.