Multilingual Margins
A journal of multilingualism from the periphery
Volume 9 Issue 1 September 2022
CHRISTOPHER STROUD University of the Western Cape
South Africa
QUENTIN WILLIAMS University of the Western Cape
South Africa
Chapters
Linguistic Marginalia: A Special Issue on African Urban Youth Language (AUYL) Practices
PHILIP W RUDD
2 Linguistic Features in a Marginal Corpus. The Case of Written
Camfranglais, a Cameroon Youth Language
AUGUSTIN E EBONGUE 12
Language on the margins: multilinguality, marginality and linguistic precarity in the Nigerian context
TAIWO OLORUNTOBA-OJU 26
Empaako, the Magic Word: A Special Form of Address Used in Western Uganda
GERALD HEUSING
50 Strategies for Identifying Sheng: What counts as Sheng?
PETER GITHINJI 61
The ‘rural-urban’ mix in the use of prepositions and prepositional phrases by students of literature in Kenyan universities
ESTHER K. MBITHI 74
Escaping the Margins of Society: New Media and Youth Language Practices across the Rural Urban Divide in Kenya
FRIDAH K ERASTUS, OCHIENG’ ORWENJO & MARGARET N GATHIGIA
83
Marginality, subversive language and sex tourism: Multilingual practices at the Kenyan coast
NICO NASSENSTEIN 101
The Performative Grammars of Civic Action: Decolonizing Interstices of Language through Theatricalizing Sheng
KARIN A WAIDLEY 117
