Gendered Dichotomies in African Youth Language and Language Practices: Urban and Rural Spaces, Virtual and Real-Life Gendered Discourses

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Gendered Dichotomies in African Youth Language and Language Practices explores the intricate gender dynamics within African youth languages across urban and rural settings. This volume challenges the perception that youth language is predominantly male-oriented by presenting diverse voices and gendered usage patterns collected through extensive sociolinguistic and anthropological research. Contributors analyse language forms and genres to reveal how gender performatives manifest in real-life and virtual contexts.
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Ideal for researchers, educators, and students interested in sociolinguistics, gender studies, African studies, and youth culture, this volume provides valuable insights into language practices shaping contemporary African youth identities.

This collected volume focuses on gender dynamics and gendered usage in African youth languages and youth language practices.

Description

Youth language data provides interesting perspectives on gender dynamics and gendered usage in society. However, the gender perspective has not received the deserved focus in youth language studies in Africa. This is partly due to the general perception that youth languages and classic youth language practices, such as slang and anti-language, are male-oriented.

This collected volume focuses on gender dynamics and gendered usage in African youth languages and youth language practices, against the backdrop of urbanity as well as rurality. With representations from different parts of Africa, the volume examines sundry youth usage in different contexts and domains. While avoiding strict binarisations and potentially flawed dichotomies, the contributing scholars observe some of the motivations for different gender performatives and how these manifest in a variety of language forms and through predominated categories of use. Data samples were obtained through sociolinguistic and anthropological instruments, ranging from questionnaires and structured interviews to street-based observations and corpus analyses.

On the whole, the volume engages the literature and debate on language, youth, and especially on gendering dynamics in African youth language practices.

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INFORMATION

ISBN: 9783838217246

Publisher: ibidem-Verlag, Jessica Haunschild u Christian Schon

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 12 September 2022

Country: Germany

Imprint: ibidem-Verlag, Jessica Haunschild u Christian Schon

Edition: New edition

Contributors:

Contributions by Elisabeth Bi Maondo Abang
Edited by Taiwo Oloruntoba-Oju
Contributions by Fridah Kananah Erastus
Contributions by Paul Onanuga
Contributions by Ellen Hurst-Harosh
Contributions by Lucile Ushupule
Foreword by Mokaya Bosire
Contributions by Eyo Mensah
Contributions by Comfort Ojongkpot

Audience: Professional and scholarly

DIMENSIONS

Width: 148.0mm

Height: 210.0mm

Weight: 445g

Pages: 340

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About the Author

Taiwo Oloruntoba-Oju studied English and Applied Linguistics at the Universities of Ilorin, Ibadan and Reading, UK. Since 2007, he is Senior Lecturer of English and Applied Linguistics, Language and Society and Stylistics (language, literature, and culture) in the Department of English at the University of Ilorin in Nigeria. Previously, Oloruntoba-Oju has been a George Forster fellow of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation and a visiting scholar at the Universities of Bayreuth and the Technical University of Chemnitz. Currently, he is a Catalyst Fellow of the University of EDINBURGH. His previous books include Culture and the Contemporary African (Recito/Nordic Africa Institute, 2013); African Youth Languages: The Rural-Urban Divide (Cuvillier, 2017); Pragmatics, Linguistics, Language and Literature (Cuvillier, 2019). His papers have been published by, among other outlets, Linguistics Vanguard, Language and Style, Sexuality Monographs, Canadian Journal of African Studies, Research in African Languages and Literatures, Stichproben: Vienna Journal of African Studies; Africa World Press; African Regional Sexuality Resource Centre.