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Chege Githoria: The Logic of Sheng, SOAS University of London

https://www.soas.ac.uk/linguistics/ This talk by Dr Chege Githoria titled "The Logic of Sheng: Impact of Non-Standard language on Kenya’s linguistic landscape" was given at the Department of Linguistics at SOAS on 29 September 2015 More about this event: https://goo.gl/e4ACML Contemporary African multilingualism is changing the languages and identities of urban communities. Sheng, a non-standard form of Kenyan Swahili is associated with urban, youth culture, and it continues to evolve in tandem with internal, rural-urban migration. Current, ongoing research reveals that during the last decade or so, it has dramatically expanded its physical and linguistic domains. The code has moved into rural Kenya, aided by the national public boarding school system, and into mainstream domains of use such as media, politics, and corporate advertising. This marks a step across an important threshold in its capacity to alter Kenya’s linguistic landscape significantly. In this presentation, I argue that the expansion of its linguistic space beyond its Nairobi origins, and across many domains of language use is a logical outcome of a socially stratified, multilingual society in search of a modern identity. On the linguistic level, I shall demonstrate that Sheng speakers are not “verbally deprived” as is popularly believed, and that the linguistic structure of Sheng is a another form of code-mixing existing on a continuum of Kenyan Swahili.