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Name: The linguistic peculiarities of «Hip-hop literature» (illustrated by Wahida Clark’s novels)

Authors: Karkavina Oksana Vladimirovna

In the section Linguistics

Issue 1, 2016Pages 163-169
UDK: 811.11DOI: 10.17223/18137083/54/19

Abstract: The paper is devoted to the analysis of one of the novels written by the contemporary Afro-American author Wahida Clark. The novel under study belongs to the genre of «hip-hop literature » that is new to Russian linguists but is very popular among American readers. The author of the paper analyses the linguistic peculiarities of the novel. She notes that these peculiarities are determined both by the oral character of the narration and by the main characteristics of the Afro-American urban slang. The oral character of speech leads to compression, that is, to the incompleteness of expression and to redundancy. The Afro-American urban slang actualizes a number of linguistic phenomena, such as clippings, synonymic attraction, iconic use of numbers and various lexical expressive devices.

Keywords: «hip-hop literature», afro-american slang, language, stylistic devices

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