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A Pragmatic Analysis Of Slang And Catchy Phrases Used In Some Selected Nigerian Hip-hop Songs
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1.2 PURPOSE OF THE RESEARCH.
The purpose of this
essay is to justify the deliberate insertion of slangy expressions and
catchy phrases in the composition and rendition of Nigerian hip-hop
songs. The study aims at asserting the fact that the singers’ intended
meanings of these songs would not have been realizable without these
slangy expressions and catchy phrases used in them. It therefore
pragmatically analyses these slangy forms and catchy phrases with
reference to the overall meanings of the songs.
JUSTIFICATION OF THE STUDY
In
the course of gathering materials for this research work, we came
across several other researches but only two of them are related to the
topic in question. They are “A pragmatic Analysis of Slang Forms Used
for Females Students in the university of Ilorin†Olukoya, B. (2010) and
“A pragmatic Analysis of the Titles of English Church lyrics†Indarno
(2000). None of these two deal with the specific focus of this research
work. This essay is therefore embarked upon to add to existing knowledge
and to enable readers to know that there is a lot more information
beyond the surface meanings of the hip-hop songs they listen to.
1.4 RESEARCH QUESTIONS
What are the factors that instigate a hip-hop singer’s choice of lexical items in the composition of his songs?
What things does the singer generally take for granted about thehearers of the song?
What makes the inflection of slangy expressions and catchy phrases compulsory, can’t they be avoided?
1.5 RESEARCH HYPOTHESIS
1) No hip-hop singer ever uses lexical items in his/her compositionwithout a reason
2)
Listeners of hip-hop songs usually, generally share certain salient
facts and information about the context of the songs with the singers.
Certain slangy forms and catchy phrases are necessary.
1.6 SCOPE OF THE STUDY.
This
research work uses; a maximum of four (4) Nigerian hip-hop songs as
data within which slangy forms and catchy phrases will be extracted.
Also only the illocutionary speech act and five (5) other elements of
pragmatics, which are context, presupposition, reference, intention, and
inference, will be used in the analysis. This restriction is due to the
fact that there are a lot of elements in pragmatics, some of which are
specifically gotten from pragmatic and some others, gotten from theories
of meaning and semantics. Therefore, in order to be explicit and to
stay within the allocated paper space for this research work, this
restriction is necessary.
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ABSRACT - [ Total Page(s): 1 ]Slangy expressions and catchy phrases are deliberately used in hip-hop songs in order to reduce the degree of vulgarity in the content of the song so as not to disrupt society moral norms, and to increase the rate of acceptability of such song amidst listeners, to avoid direct stating of the name of the referent (s) in a satirical song for instance, and also for singers to create a landmark worth discussing even while the song is no longer in vogue.Aside all these, slang forms and catchy phrases ... Continue reading---
