Год выпуска: 2010 Автор: maduabuchi agbo Издательство: LAP Lambert Academic Publishing Страниц: 104 ISBN: 9783838374765
Описание
This is an investigation of the linguistic behaviour of Nigerian Hip Hop and Rap artistes. The study reveals that the artistes skillfully use language alternation strategies to enhance the aesthetic and rhetorical qualities of their music. It is also revealed in the study that the language alternation patterns involve major Nigerian languages and English, and, they interact with elements of the lyrical structure viz the lines, rhymes and stanzas to enhance the musical qualities of the artistes’ works. Language alternations have other connotations as they also bear the qualities of identifying the artistes’ linguistic identity and preferences. It also has semantic significance, as when some lexical items are used to highlight codeswitching occurrences like transfer and borrowing. Language alternation also highlights contrastive and expressive codeswitching as well as reformulations and repetitions. It is also used to achieve a greater audience/participant...
