Exploring the Use of Wordsmith Tools for Sociolinguistics PurposesCase Study of Cultural Loaded Language Uses in White and Black Rappers’ Corpora
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Universidad de Salamanca
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- Isabel Moskowich-Spiegel Fandiño (coord.)
- Begoña Crespo García (coord.)
- Inés Lareo Martín (coord.)
- Paula Lojo Sandino (coord.)
Editorial: Servizo de Publicacións ; Universidade da Coruña
ISBN: 978-84-9749-401-4
Año de publicación: 2010
Título del volumen: Part I, A-K
Volumen: 1
Páginas: 39-48
Congreso: International Conference on Corpus Linguistics (2. 2010. A Coruña)
Tipo: Aportación congreso
Resumen
The study of processes of language crossing between white and black rappers (Álvarez-Mosquera, 2009),it allowed us to achieve two independent corpora corresponding to these two ethnic groups. Althoughdifferent linguistic features were the subject of study, we also analyzed the presence of some culturalcomponents in this music genre deeply rooted in the Black Oral Tradition. In this study, we arepresenting some remarkable results that were obtained by processing this data through Wordsmith Toolsin order to track cultural similarities and differences in their language uses in rap compositions. The useof personal pronouns like I, you or we, the presence of violent terminology or the references to one of themost symbolic space for rappers, that is, the hood draw some ethnic lines in this specific linguisticcontext.