African youth languages : new media, performing arts and sociolinguistic development /

Bibliographic Details
Corporate Author:	EBSCOhost
Other Authors:	Hurst-Harosh, Ellen (Editor), Erastus, Kanana Fridah, 1978- (Editor)
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Cham : Palgrave Macmillan, [2018]
Subjects:	Youth > Africa > Language. Mass media and language > Africa. Linguistic change > Africa. Electronic books.
Online Access:	Connect to the full text of this electronic book

Table of Contents:

Chapter 1. Introduction
Section I. Social and Advertising Media
Chapter 2. Functions of urban and Youth language in the new media: The Case of Sheng in Kenya; Fridah Kanana Erastus and Hildah Kebeya
Chapter 3. View on the Updating of Nouchi Lexicon and Expressions; Akissi Béatrice Boutin and Jean-Claude Dodo
Chapter 4. Social media as an extension of, and negotiation space for, a community of practice: a comparison of Nouchi and Tsotsitaal; Roland Raoul Kouassi and Ellen Hurst
Chapter 5. The Use of Addressing Terms in Social Media: The Case of Cameroonian Youth Practices; Augustin E. Ebongue
Chapter 6. The Impact of Youth Language on Linguistic Landscapes in Kenya and Tanzania; Leonard Muaka
Chapter 7. Creative Use of Urban Youth Language in Advertisements: A Case of Mixing Codes; Edinah Gesare Mose and Orpha Bonareri Ombati
Section 2. Music, Performance Poetry and Video
Chapter 8. Plurality, translingual splinters and music-modality in Nigerian youth languages; Lasisi Adeiza Isiaka
Chapter 9. Contestant Hybridities African urban youth language in Nigerian music and social media; Taiwo Oloruntoba-Oju
Chapter 10. Linguistic (and non-linguistic) Influences on Urban Performance Poetry in South African Contemporary Youth Culture; Unathi Nopece
Chapter 11. Slangs in Yoruba Home Videos: A Morpho-Pragmatic Analysis; Asiru Hameed Tunde.