dc.contributor.author | Williams, Quentin | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2017-04-25T06:15:00Z | |
dc.date.available | 2017-04-25T06:15:00Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2016 | |
dc.identifier.citation | Williams, Q. (2016). Youth multilingualism in South Africa's hip-hop culture: a metapragmatic analysis. Sociolinguistic Studies, 10(1-2): 109-133 | en_US |
dc.identifier.issn | 1750-8649 | |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10566/2759 | |
dc.identifier.uri | http://dx.doi.org/10.1558/sols.v10i1-2.27797 | |
dc.description.abstract | This paper describes the practice of youth multilingualism in South Africa's hip-hop
culture, in an online social media space and an advertising space. Based on a multi-sited
ethnographic fieldwork study of youth multilingual practices, comprising of the following
data sets - multilingual interviews, observations, multilingual interactions and performances,
documents and online social networking interactions - the paper reports on
how young multilingual speakers active in the hip-hop culture of the country talk and write
about the intermixing of racial and ethnic speech forms, as well as use registers in the
practice of gendered identities. The argument I put forth in the paper is that the examples
of youth multilingualism suggest a complex picture of youth multilingual contact in
postcolonial South Africa, and one that require a sociocultural linguistic response that
accounts for the cultural influence of youth multilingualisms in local hip-hop culture.
To such an end, I suggest that multilingual policy planning in the country should be
readjusted to the complex sociocultural changes we see emerge with youth multilingual
practices. | en_US |
dc.language.iso | en | en_US |
dc.publisher | Equinox publishing | en_US |
dc.rights | This is the author version of the article found online at: http://dx.doi.org/10.1558/sols.v10i1-2.27797 | |
dc.subject | Youth | en_US |
dc.subject | Multilingualism | en_US |
dc.subject | Metapragmatics | en_US |
dc.subject | Hip-hop | en_US |
dc.subject | South Africa | en_US |
dc.title | Youth multilingualism in South Africa's hip-hop culture: a metapragmatic analysis | en_US |
dc.type | Article | en_US |
dc.privacy.showsubmitter | FALSE | |
dc.status.ispeerreviewed | TRUE | |
dc.description.accreditation | IBSS | en_US |