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T1 African American Vernacular English Features in Rap Lyrics: A Case of Study
A1 Marwa F. Muftah, El Malti
A2 Universidad de Valladolid. Facultad de Filosofía y Letras
K1 hip-hop music
K1 Rap genre
K1 African American Vernacular English (AAVE)
K1 Sociolinguistics
K1 Dialect
K1 música hip hop
K1 Género rap
K1 Inglés vernáculo afroamericano (IVAA)
K1 Sociolingüística
K1 Dialecto
K1 5701.11 Enseñanza de Lenguas
AB The purpose of this dissertation is to investigate African American Vernacular English's (AAVE) features represented in rap lyrics by African American and Caucasian American rappers. Sociolinguistics plays a vital role to demonstrate some socio-cultural and linguistic aspects of hip-hop language because it shows the relationship between the AAVE varieties and speech community given in a specific geographical area and a period of time. One of the most representative characteristics of this variety are the phonological feature (i.e., the realization of the voiced -th (which is pronounced as /ð/) replaced by the sounds d or v and deletion of word-final voiced stops after a vowel), some of the grammatical feature (such as the use of gon’, ain’t, multiple negations and absence of copula or copula deletion, etc.) and lexical aspects (i.e., Y’all). Therefore, the aim of this paper is to explore the notion sociolinguistics and study of the language and culture of hip-hop, taking into consideration the origin, development of this field. Thus, this approach demonstrates how hip-hop language is used by the two groups of artists: the African American artists (D.O.C., Kendrick Lamar and Royce Da 5’9’’) and Caucasian American artists (Vanilla Ice, G-Eazy and Eminem), describing the use of AAVE features. Therefore, by using the corpus tool of Antconc, this approach examines some similar and different AAVE elements used by African American and non-African American rappers based on (quantitative and qualitative) data results.
YR 2022
FD 2022
LK https://uvadoc.uva.es/handle/10324/59173
UL https://uvadoc.uva.es/handle/10324/59173
LA spa
NO Departamento de Filología Inglesa
DS UVaDOC
RD 17-jul-2024