Language, identity, and urban youth subculture
| Autor: | Michael Tosin Gbogi |
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| Rok vydání: | 2022 |
| Předmět: |
060201 languages & linguistics
Linguistics and Language Indirection Youth subculture Circumlocution media_common.quotation_subject 05 social sciences 0507 social and economic geography Identity (social science) Gender studies 06 humanities and the arts Ambiguity 050701 cultural studies Popularity Language and Linguistics Philosophy Subculture Aesthetics 0602 languages and literature Sociology Meaning (linguistics) media_common |
| Zdroj: | Pragmatics. Quarterly Publication of the International Pragmatics Association (IPrA). :171-195 |
| ISSN: | 2406-4238 1018-2101 |
| DOI: | 10.1075/prag.26.2.01tos |
| Popis: | Towards the turn of the 20th century, a new wave of hip hop music emerged in Nigeria whose sense of popularity activated, and was activated by, the employment of complex linguistic strategies. Indirection, ambiguity, circumlocution, language mixing, pun, double meaning, and inclusive pronominals, among others, are not only used by artists in performing the glocal orientations of their music but also become for them valuable resources in the fashioning of multiple identities. In this paper, I interrogate some of these linguistic markers, using four broad paradigms: “Signifying,” “slangifying,” “double meaning,” and “pronominals and ghetto naming.” Under each of these areas, I show how Nigerian hip hop music is creating–through the mediation of language–sub-identities and a new subculture for a generation of urban youth. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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