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

Book Overview

Builds on a rapidly growing literature on African Urban Youth Languages to show that performing arts, creative arts and media are sites of sociolinguistic developmentConsiders use of social media including Facebook, YouTube and Whatsapp by young people across the continent from countries as far afield as Kenya, Nigeria and ZimbabweExplores current research into print media, television, and linguistic landscapes in Africa's intersected urban centresExamines urban youth languages in the creative arts, particularly popular forms of music and poetry such as performance poetry and hip hop/ rap, as well as film

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3319645617
• ISBN13: 9783319645612
• Release Date: March 2018
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 255 Pages
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.8" x 8.3"