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Publication details [#61092]

Gbogi, Michael Tosin. 2016. Language, identity, and urban youth subculture. Nigerian HIP HOP music as an exemplar. Pragmatics 26 (2) : 171–195.
Publication type
Article in journal
Publication language
English
Place, Publisher
John Benjamins
Journal DOI
10.1075/prag

Annotation

Around the turn of the 20th century, a new wave of Nigerian hip hop music used intricate linguistic strategies to perform glocal orientations and shape multiple sub-identities and a novel subculture for a generation of urban youth. This paper examines some of these markers, employing four ample paradigms: “Signifying,” “slangifying,” “double meaning,” and “pronominals and ghetto naming.”