Sarah Hillewaert, Morality at the Margins: Youth, Language, and Islam in Coastal Kenya

2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (2) ◽  
pp. 261-264
Author(s):  
Tabea Scharrer
Keyword(s):  
Coastal Kenya ◽  
Youth Language

scholarly journals Women bargaining with patriarchy in coastal Kenya: contradictions, creative agency and food provisioning

2019 ◽  
Vol 26 (3) ◽  
pp. 384-404 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nozomi Kawarazuka ◽  
Catherine Locke ◽  
Janet Seeley
Keyword(s):  
Food Provisioning ◽  
Creative Agency ◽  
Coastal Kenya

Morphological features of Kiswahili youth language(s): Evidence from Dar es Salaam, Goma, Lubumbashi and Nairobi

2020 ◽  
Vol 6 (s4) ◽  
Author(s):  
Nico Nassenstein ◽  
Paulin Baraka Bose
Keyword(s):  
Urban Youth ◽  
Structural Features ◽  
Dar Es Salaam ◽  
Morphological Features ◽  
East African ◽  
Verbal Morphology ◽  
Dr Congo ◽  
Register Variation ◽  
Identity Constructions ◽  
Youth Language

Abstract Since the late 1980s, linguists’ analyses of Sheng, the urban youth language from Nairobi, have led to the growth of a considerable body of literature. In contrast, only a few studies are available that cover other youth registers from the Kiswahili-speaking parts of Africa. While most of the available studies either deal with techniques of manipulation or with adolescents’ identity constructions, our paper intends to give a comparative overview of specific morphological features of Kiswahili-based youth languages. While certain characteristics of Sheng (Nairobi/Kenya), Lugha ya Mitaani (Dar es Salaam/Tanzania), Kindubile (Lubumbashi/DR Congo) and Yabacrâne (Goma/DR Congo) largely diverge from East Coast Swahili (hereafter ECS) in regard to their nominal and verbal morphology, they all share specific features. Focusing on (apparent) supra-regional developments and changes in Kiswahili, this preliminary description of some structural features that transcend all four youth language practices aims to provide comparative insights into urban register variation, approaching East African youth languages from a micro-typological perspective.

Deviant writing and youth identity

2011 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 58-79 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jin Liu
Keyword(s):  
Ad Hoc ◽  
Dominant Strategy ◽  
Written Language ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Youth Identity ◽  
Visual Style ◽  
Chinese Writing System ◽  
Standard Chinese ◽  
Youth Language ◽  
Chinese Writing

This paper examines the emergence of the representation of dialect with Chinese characters (fangyan wenzihua) on the Internet. The online dialect writing is primarily identified as a subject of Internet language and youth language study. The CMC discourse as a hybrid register mixing spoken and written language features facilitates the written use of oral dialect on the Internet. Deviating from the standard Chinese writing system, the Internet-savvy youth transcribe their native dialects on an ad hoc basis, which celebrates multiplicity, creativity, individuality and resists uniformity, standardization, and institutionalization. Taking the SHN website (www.shanghaining.com) as a case study, the paper discusses how the written Shanghai Wu words are explored to mark a distinct visual style and to articulate a distinct local youth identity. Furthermore, this paper examines the dominant strategy of phonetic borrowing in dialect transcription on the Internet. It is argued that diachronically, the youth’s phonocentric obsession tapped into the May Fourth tradition of the baihua vernacular movement that was heavily influenced by the European logocentrism; and synchronically, the celebration of dialect sound on the Internet echoes the contemporary soundscape of local dialects formed in the mass media in recent years.

The prevalence and economic significance of Fasciola gigantica and Stilesia hepatica in slaughtered animals in the semi-arid coastal Kenya

2006 ◽  
Vol 38 (6) ◽  
pp. 475-483 ◽  
Author(s):  
E. O. Mungube ◽  
S. M. Bauni ◽  
B.-A. Tenhagen ◽  
L. W. Wamae ◽  
J. M. Nginyi ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Fasciola Gigantica ◽  
Economic Significance ◽  
Coastal Kenya ◽  
Semi Arid
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