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Youth Language Practices and Urban Language Contact in Africa - Cambridge Approaches to Language Contact New edition
Youth Language Practices and Urban Language Contact in Africa - Cambridge Approaches to Language Contact
This fascinating study explores male youth language practices in different urban centres in Africa, showing their relation to other urban languages, vernaculars and varieties, and testing and contesting claims of their autonomy and candidacy as national languages. It will provide new insights for scholars of language contact and sociolinguistics.
320 pages
| Media | Books Hardcover Book (Book with hard spine and cover) |
| Released | September 9, 2021 |
| ISBN13 | 9781107171206 |
| Publishers | Cambridge University Press |
| Pages | 228 |
| Dimensions | 235 × 160 × 21 mm · 474 g |
| Editor | Brookes, Heather (University of Cape Town) |
| Editor | Hurst-Harosh, Ellen (University of Cape Town) |
| Editor | Mesthrie, Rajend (University of Cape Town) |