3 Diverging verb derivational strategies in the youth language Yanké (DR Congo)

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Foreword V
3. Contents XI
4. 1 Youth language research: Changing perspectives, international trends and emerging themes 1
5. Part I: Words and patterns
6. Introduction 29
7. 2 The emergence of Bahasa Gaul: A comparative study of Yogyakarta and Jakarta youth 31
8. 3 Diverging verb derivational strategies in the youth language Yanké (DR Congo) 49
9. 4 Exploring euphemistic initialisms in teenage computer-mediated communication 67
10. 5 Teenagers and social networking. Twitter as a data source for the study of the language of London teenagers and young adults 85
11. 6 Locating Sepitori in relation to South Africa’s youth language practices: An overview 105
12. 7 Innovation and change in a multilingual context: The Innovative Tariana language in northwest Amazonia 121
13. Part II: Specific purposes
14. Introduction 139
15. 8 On conversational humour in South African and Congolese youth’s interactions: A pragmatic approach to youth language 141
16. 9 Youth language manipulation as decolonial practice in Uganda 165
17. 10 “Whenever I smoke, I see myself in Paradise”: The discourse of tobacco consumption among rural youth in Nigeria 179
18. 11 Notes on children’s secret language games in New Ireland, Papua New Guinea 203
19. 12 Three “bad” favourites in Spanishspeaking teenagers’ conversation 225
20. Part III: Ideologies and belonging
21. Introduction 243
22. 13 Metapragmatics of mode-switching: Young people’s awareness of multimodal meaning making in digital interaction 245
23. 14 Whose way of speaking? Youth’s self-reflexive voices and language ideologies in Uganda and Central African Republic 265
24. 15 The youth linguistic index: Narrative persuasion and sense of belonging in a movie trailer 293
25. 16 “We mix it up”: Indigenous youth language practices in Arnhem Land 315
26. 17 Youth language before youth language 337
27. Subject Index 351