Youth Languages Practices in Africa and Beyond

Contributions to the Sociology of Language [CSL] #105

by Daniele Moyal-Sharrock (Editor), Volker Munz (Editor), Annalisa Coliva (Editor)

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.

400 pages, Unknown Binding

First published August 14, 2015