Unit:
Κατεύθυνση Γλωσσολογία: θεωρία και εφαρμογέςLibrary of the School of Philosophy
Supervisors info:
Ουρανία Χατζηδάκη, Επίκουρη Καθηγήτρια, Τµήµα Αεροπορικών Επιστηµών, Τοµέας Ηγετικής/∆ιοικητικής, Ανθρωπιστικών Επιστηµών και Φυσιολογίας, Σχολή Ικάρων
Σηφιανού Μαρία, Καθηγήτρια, Τμήμα Αγγλικής Γλώσσας και Φιλολογίας, ΕΚΠΑ
Τζάννε Αγγελική, Αναπληρώτρια Καθηγήτρια, Τμήμα Αγγλικής Γλώσσας και Φιλολογίας, ΕΚΠΑ
Original Title:
Power, Powerlessness and Empowerment in African-American and White Performers' Hip-Hop Rhetoric: A Contrastive Corpus-driven Critical Discourse Analysis.
Translated title:
Power, Powerlessness and Empowerment in African-American and White Performers' Hip-Hop Rhetoric: A Contrastive Corpus-driven Critical Discourse Analysis.
Summary:
The present corpus-driven critical discourse analysis study sets out to observe the rampant transformation of the hip hop genre diachronically, examining all song lyrics from the Billboard R&B/Hip Hop music chart archives from the 1960s to 2010s. It also examines the shifts in rhetoric within gender- (male and female) and race-oriented (black and white) groups. This study charts the rhetoric of US hip hop in order to reveal ideological patterns, similarities or differences between social actors, especially the artists themselves and those directly addressed or referred to by the artists (addressors and addressees, as are categorized here). The main objective of the research is to locate and examine the artists’ recurring linguistic choices, identify and critically account for the full range of significant characteristics of the two features (race and gender) under scrutiny within the genre of hip hop, and also their evolution in time. The analysis affords a deeper insight into the tremendous rhetorical changes of a set of culturally- and emotionally-loaded, mostly stigmatized terms, which are representative of archetypal asymmetric relations between social actors.
Main subject category:
Language – Literature
Keywords:
Hip-Hop Rhetoric, Corpus Linguistics, Critical Discourse Analysis, Power Asymmetry
