“卡住我的路”:对黑人警长歌曲的语料库辅助话语分析

IF 1.5 2区 文学 Q2 COMMUNICATION Critical Discourse Studies Pub Date : 2023-10-13 DOI:10.1080/17405904.2023.2269276
Emmanuel Mensah Bonsu
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摘要考虑到陷阱音乐及其歌词的社会和语言力量是社会语言使用的重要途径,本研究着手对黑人警长的精选歌词进行语料库辅助话语分析。该研究将Wmatrix和CDA的社会认知方法相结合来解释歌词。分析揭示了三种语言策略:(a)代词;(b)加纳学生洋泾浜语;(c)歌词中的隐喻,作为一种赋予年轻人生存和争取成功的手段,尽管生活中受到社会和心理上的侵害。此外,歌词中的个人主义自我表现包括了共同经历斗争、痛苦、生存、自我赋权的人们的多重身份。最后,该研究强调了一些关键的社会问题,如经济困难和社会不公正,否则这些问题可能被主流媒体或学术界忽视或代表性不足。基于这些发现,本研究为实践和进一步研究提供了建议。关键词:语料库辅助身份;自我表征;歌词;生存陷阱致谢感谢审稿人的建设性和批判性意见,这些意见提高了本文的质量。披露声明作者未报告潜在的利益冲突。作者简介:emmanuel Mensah Bonsu是开普敦海岸大学英语系的一名硕士研究生。他的研究兴趣包括学术语篇、(批评)语篇分析、特定/学术用途英语和社会语言学。他是加纳语言学协会(LAG)和西非系统功能语言学兴趣小组(WASFLIG)的成员。
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‘Trapping my way up’: a corpus-assisted discourse analysis of Black Sherif’s songs
ABSTRACTTaking cognisance of the social and linguistic power of trap music and its song lyrics as crucial avenues for language use in society, this study set out to conduct a corpus-assisted discourse analysis of selected song lyrics of Black Sherif. The study synergised Wmatrix and a socio-cognitive approach to CDA to interpret the song lyrics. The analyses revealed three linguistic strategies: (a) pronouns; (b) Ghanaian Student Pidgin; and (c) metaphors in the song lyrics that served as a means of empowering the youth to survive and strive for success despite social and psychological aggressions in life. Also, the individualistic self-representation in the song lyrics included plural identities of people who share a common experience of struggle, pain, survival, and self-empowerment. Finally, the study highlighted crucial societal issues, such as economic hardship and social injustice, that may otherwise be overlooked or underrepresented in mainstream media or academia. Based on these findings, the study provides recommendations for practice and further research.KEYWORDS: Corpus-assistedidentitiesself-representationsong lyricssurvivaltrapping AcknowledgementI am grateful to the reviewers for their constructive and critical comments that improved the quality of this paper.Disclosure statementNo potential conflict of interest was reported by the author(s).Additional informationNotes on contributorsEmmanuel Mensah BonsuEmmanuel Mensah Bonsu is an MPhil candidate at the Department of English, University of Cape Coast. His research interests include Academic Discourse, (Critical) Discourse Analysis, English for Specific/Academic Purposes, and Sociolinguistics. He is a member of the Linguistics Association of Ghana (LAG) and the West Africa Systemic Functional Linguistics Interest Group (WASFLIG).
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