African-American Vernacular English within American 'Gangsta Rap'

By Jan Skordos

Seminar paper from the year 2009 in the subject American Studies - Linguistics, grade: 2,7, University of M nster (Anglistik/Amerikanistik), course: Proseminar American English, language: English, abstract: This abstract shall give another piece of the puzzle to what is considered to be African-American Vernacular English. With scientific aid of well-known concepts by linguists such as Green in particular but also Wolfram, Schilling-Estes, Mufwene and Poplack we want to focus on specific grammatical features of AAVE and to what extend these can be recovered in the Hip-Hop subgenre of American West Coast Gangsta Rap. A small but significant text corpus of four representative songs (added to the appendix in the shape of lyrics) cover the source for a quantitative and qualitative evaluation. The given text shall give a short overview about the origin and different theories on AAVE first and will further on primarily adapt the characteristic linguistic features L. Green and Wolfram & Schilling-Estes worked out and apply them to our little song text corpus.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3640840259
• ISBN13: 9783640840250
• Release Date: February 2011
• Publisher: Grin Verlag
• Length: 60 Pages
• Weight: 0.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.1" x 5.8" x 8.3"