Youth multilingualism in South Africa's hip-hop culture: a metapragmatic analysis

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dc.contributor.authorWilliams, Quentin
dc.date.accessioned25/04/2017 08:15
dc.date.available25/04/2017 08:15
dc.date.issued2016
dc.description.abstractThis 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
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dc.identifier.citationWilliams, Q. (2016). Youth multilingualism in South Africa's hip-hop culture: a metapragmatic analysis. Sociolinguistic Studies, 10(1-2): 109-133en_US
dc.identifier.issn1750-8649
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10566/2759
dc.identifier.urihttp://dx.doi.org/10.1558/sols.v10i1-2.27797
dc.language.isoenen_US
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dc.publisherEquinox publishingen_US
dc.rightsThis is the author version of the article found online at: http://dx.doi.org/10.1558/sols.v10i1-2.27797
dc.status.ispeerreviewedTRUE
dc.subjectYouthen_US
dc.subjectMultilingualismen_US
dc.subjectMetapragmaticsen_US
dc.subjectHip-hopen_US
dc.subjectSouth Africaen_US
dc.titleYouth multilingualism in South Africa's hip-hop culture: a metapragmatic analysisen_US
dc.typeArticleen_US

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