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

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.