Affiliating with Rap Music: Political Rap or Gangsta Rap?

Bu çalışmada dizgesel işlevsel dilbilimi (SFL) tanımladıktan sonra politik ve çete rap‟inde anlatılan kişilerarası anlamları tanımlamaya çalışacağım. dizgesel işlevsel dilbilim‟den Appraisal‟ı, 10 kişiden oluşan bir gruba 5 tane politik rep türü ve 5 tane çete rapi türü şarkıyı karşılaştırarak uygulayacağım. Appraisal, dilin değerlendirilmesi için tasarlanmış dilbilimsel analitik bir yapıdır. Son olarak Appraisal‟ı, hem politik rap türünün hem de çete rap türünün kendine özgü temalarını yüceltme yollarını tanımlamada ve ardından beyaz, şehirli ve orta sınıftan oluşan bir genç seyirci kitlesinin politik rep türünden ziyade çete repiyle ilgilendiğine dair hipotezi açıklamada kullanma amacındayım.

Following the linguistic theory of Systemic Functional Linguistics (SFL), for this paper, I will describe the interpersonal meanings expressed in the lyrics of political rap and gangsta rap. From SFL, I will apply Appraisal to a small corpus of 10 rap songs, comparing 5 political rap songs with 5 gangsta rap songs. Appraisal is a linguistic analytical framework designed to identify evaluation in language. Ultimately, I aim to apply Appraisal so as to describe the ways in which both political rap and gangsta rap actually 'promote' their respective themes, and in turn, hypothesise why it is that a white, suburban, middle-class youth audience seeks to affiliate with gangsta rap rather than political rap.

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