The dynamics of youth language in Africa: An introduction

Authors

Youth language, creativity, dynamisy, identity, transidiomatic practices

Eyo Mensah introduces this special issue on the dynamics of youth language in Africa.

Eyo Mensah, University of Calabar, Nigeria

Dr. Eyo Mensah is a Reader in Linguistics at the University of Calabar, Nigeria. He is (CAS) Leventis Postdoctoral Fellow (SOAS, University of London, UK) and AHP/ACLS Postdoctoral Fellow (University of Ghana, Legon). His research interests include structural linguistics, ethnographic discourse analysis, anthropological linguistics and pragmatics. He is a member of the Linguistic Association of Nigeria (LAN), West African Linguistic Society (WALS), Society for Pidgin and Creole Linguistics (SPCL), and African Studies Association of the United Kingdom (ASAUK), among other professional academic afﬁliations. His latest publications have appeared in Journal of African Cultural Studies, Acta Academica, Language Matters and Anthropological Notebooks. He is a member of the Editorial Boards of Sociolinguistic Studies, English Language Teaching and Language and Culture.