Sheng: Rise of a Kenyan Swahili Vernacular
- Submitting institution
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School of Oriental and African Studies
- Unit of assessment
- 26 - Modern Languages and Linguistics
- Output identifier
- 25904
- Type
- A - Authored book
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- Publisher
- James Currey
- ISBN
- 9781847012074
- Open access status
- Out of scope for open access requirements
- Month of publication
- November
- Year of publication
- 2018
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
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- Forensic science
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- Criminology
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- Interdisciplinary
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- Proposed double-weighted
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- Double-weighted statement
- This book, the result of more than a decade and half of research, offers the first comprehensive study of the urban Swahili vernacular Sheng. Best defined in terms of 'translanguaging', Sheng is no longer restricted to ‘inner city’ neighbourhood youths – ‘everybody speaks Sheng’, many participants said. The book combines historical, ethnographic and linguistic description and contributes to the transdisciplinary scholarship on multilingualism. It consists of 7 substantial chapters, an Introduction and Conclusion. It is consciously written in a language accessible to sociolinguists, anthropologists, students of youth culture and (African) urban studies, educationists, teachers, parents, and policy makers.
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- Non-English
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