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Conference | Workshop

Youth Language Workshop after Cosmas Amenorvi’s PhD defense

Date
Friday 27 September 2024
Time
Location
Lipsius
Cleveringaplaats 1
2311 BD Leiden
Room
2.03

Cosmas Amenorvi will defend his thesis A Sociolinguistic Study of an Ewe-based Youth Language of Aflao, Ghana on Thursday 26th September 2024 14.30, Academy Building. In honour of his achievement, we will hold an informal workshop on Friday 27th September 2024 on Youth Language, with a preliminary schedule as follows: 

9.00-

9.30

Cosmas Amenorvi (University of Energy and Natural Resources, Ghana)

Identity as a driving force behind youth languages: a case of Adzagbe 

9.30-
10.00

Nico Nassenstein (Johannes Gutenberg Universität Mainz)

The Study of Microvariation and Youth Languages -  the Why, the How, the Challenges and First Results

10.00-10.30

Naomi Truan (LUCL)

Youth Languages – A Language Ideological Perspective on Gender

10.30-11.00

Coffee break

11.00-11.30 

Hannah Gibson & Elvis ResCue (presents) (University of Essex)

Insights from Youth Language Practices in Malawi and Zambia

11.30-12.00

Felix Ameka (LUCL)

Are Adzagbe users ruffians? On the cultural semantics of negative character terms in Ewe

12.00-12.30 

Maarten Mous (LUCL)

Imagined Idols in Youth Languages: The Yankee (Congo), NTS (Nouveau Type de Sénégalais), the Tsotsi (S.A.)

12.30-13.00

Linnéa Koré (University of Gothenburg (online)

(Im)polite bargaining at electronics markets in Abidjan, Côte d'Ivoire

Attendance is possible in-person or online (Zoom).  

Registration

Everyone is warmly invited to attend the workshop (and the defense)! Please e-mail Maarten Mous (m.mous@hum.leidenuniv.nl) to indicate if you plan to come to the workshop (in-person or online).

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