What is it about?
Young people in Africa utilize language as a tool for exclusion and to disrupt the ideological and mainstream linguistic and social order. It is instructive to note that speakers of African youth languages see their languages as natural phenomena and not as differentiating constructs, since they make use of their fluidity on a daily basis.
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Perspectives
This volume presents a unique sociolinguistic exploration of the study of youth languages in Africa. It does not claim to be exhaustive but offers in-depth and timely accounts of the phenomena in a way that will open new directions of thinking and frontiers of investigation into youth agency and social reproduction.
Professor Eyo Mensah
University of Calabar
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This page is a summary of: The dynamics of youth language in Africa: An introduction, Sociolinguistic Studies, December 2015, Equinox Publishing,
DOI: 10.1558/sols.v10i1-2.28005.
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