Global Linguistic Flows
Subtitle: Hip Hop Cultures, Youth Identities, And the Politics of Language
Edition: 1 edition
Publisher: Routledge
Published: August 1, 2008
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 260
ISBN-13: 9780805862850
Subjects: General; Education / General; Linguistics; Multicultural Education; Education; Education / Teaching
Description: "The book engages complex processes such as transnationalism, (im)migration, cultural flow, and diaspora in an effort to expand current theoretical approaches to language choice and agency, speech style and stylization, codeswitching and language mixing, crossing and sociolinguistic variation, and language use and globalization. Moving throughout the Global Hip Hop Nation, through scenes as diverse as Hong Kong's urban center, Germany's Mannheim inner-city district of Weststadt, the Brazilian favelas, the streets of Lagos and Dar es Salaam, and the hoods of the San Francisco Bay Area, this global intellectual cipha breaks new ground in the ethnographical study of langauge and popular culture."--Jacket.