Exploring codeswitching in Algerian rap songs and audience attitudes : a corpus based and ethnographic study

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Date

2024

Authors

Metrouh, Farid

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MOULOUD MAMMERI UNIVERSITY ,TIZI-OUZOU

Abstract

This thesis examines what roles linguistic, stylistic and sociocultural factors play in the popularity of Algerian codeswitching rap songs released between the years of 2016 and 2022, making a case study of the urban youth, aged between 18 and 30, audience of Kabylia. It is significant as it is the first large scale study into Algerian multilingual rap songs that has looked at all of these three factors: linguistic, stylistic and sociocultural, but also because it compares the findings in these three areas from corpus based analysis with an ethnographic study. A corpus o

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480 f. : ill. ; 30 cm. + CD Rom

Keywords

Rap songs : Algeria, linguistic : analysis, Socio-cultural : analysis

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Anglais