Conference | Workshop

Youth Language Workshop after Cosmas Amenorvi’s PhD defense

Date: Friday 27 September 2024
Time: 09:00 - 13:00
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 26^th 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).