Tsotsitaal in South Africa
Subtitle: style and metaphor in youth language practices
By: Ellen Hurst-Harosh
Series: Language contact in Africa -- volume 6; Sprachkontakt in Afrika -- Bd. 6
Publisher: Rüdiger Köppe Verlag
Published: 2020
Place of publication: Köln
Language: eng
Number of pages: 231
ISBN-13: 9783896450869
Copyright date: 2020
Subjects: Tsotsitaal languages; Style; Youth; Language; Metaphor
Other titles: Style and metaphor in youth language practices
Notes: Originally presented as the author's thesis (doctoral)--University of Cape Town, 2008.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 204-223).
Table of contents: title: Introduction : researching Tsotsitaal; title: Theoretical tools relevant to youth language studies --; title: African (Urban) Youth Languages --; title: Tsotsitaal --; title: Data used in this book --; title: Projects --; title: Fieldwork sites --; title: South African languages in this book --; title: Cape Town --; title: Durban --; title: East London --; title: Other data --; title: Lexical database and secondary data --; title: Ethics and anonymity --; title: What the rest of this book will cover --; title: Tsotsitaal history and background --; title: Ninevites and Amalaitas : pre-tsotsi origins : Witwatersrand 1890s-1940s --; title: Shalombombo --; title: Tsotsis : Sophiatown 1940s --; title: Tsotsitaal in Sophiatown --; title: Tsotsitaal and Iscamtho : Soweto 1955-1960s --; title: Tsotsitaal today and tsotsis today --; title: The grammatical framework of Cape Town Tsotsitaal --; title: Tsotsitaal and urban languages in South Africa : linguistic categorization, different base languages --; title: Relationship to urban base language --; title: Analysis of the base language of Cape Town Tsotsitaal --; title: Analysis of Tsotsitaal natural speech data from Cape Town and Durban --; title: 'Deepness' and 'lightness' in Cape Town Tsotsitaal and the relationship to base language --; title: Morphosyntactic features --; title: Noun class shift --; title: Elision, omission --; title: Syllable reversals --; title: A note on Myers-Scotton's Matrix Language Frame model -- -- Conclusion of grammatical analysis; title: Language attitudes and function --; title: Language attitudes --; title: Functions --; title: Generational identity --; title: Urban vs. rural identity --; title: A streetwise style --; title: Peer groups and fun -- -- Conclusion of attitudes and function chapter; title: Style, gesture and indexicality in Tsotsitaal --; title: Linguistic styling in Tsotsitaal --; title: Style and semiotic resources --; title: Gestures --; title: Stylect --; title: Gender and indexicality --; title: Gender in Tsotsitaal in online spaces --; title: Use of Tsotsitaal by women in recorded data -- -- Conclusion of style and indexicality chapter; title: Relexicalisation and metaphor --; title: Antilanguage --; title: The national core lexicon of Tsotsitaal --; title: Creation oflexical items : prison language, peer groups, borrowings --; title: Domains and topics of use : Cape Town --; title: Everyday interaction --; title: Clothing --; title: Style --; title: Relationships --; title: Environment -- -- Summary of index scores; title: Domains and topics of use : Durban --; title: Metaphor examples --; title: Lexicon --; title: Phrases -- -- Conclusion of lexical analysis chapter -- Conclusions and future directions in Tsotsitaal studies; title: Ambiguity --; title: Games, metaphor and creativity --; title: Taboo, avoidance and respect --; title: Poetics and phonology --; title: Tsotsitaal as decolonial ---- Conclusions : Tsotsitaal as register-- References-- Appendix.