Slangs reflecting male and female rappers’ lexical style seen in song lyrics  

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Rosa, Yustina

Jenis: Article from Proceeding
Dalam koleksi: KOLITA 16: Konferensi Linguistik Tahunan Atma Jaya Keenam Belas Tingkat Internasional, page 523-527.
Topik: lexical; slang; rap; style
Fulltext: 523-527 Yustina Rosa.pdf (412.98KB)

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Slang is a kind of language variety which is also considered as colloquial language which changes continuously and used by people to strengthen the social identity in a group or a trend in a society (Eble, 1996, p. 11). Slang can be found in many language uses, one of them is in lyrics. This paper attempts at observing song lyrics in rap genre. Rap song is one of music genres which has poetry as its base and this base comes from hip hop cultural reality (Pate, 2010, pp. 25-27). The rap lyrics researched in this paper were created by the rappers themselves. The rappers were American rappers which consisted of 3 male rappers, Eminem, Jay-Z, and B.o.B, and 3 female rappers, Nicki Minaj, Lil’ Kim, and Trina. There were 2 songs from each rapper that were observed. Thus, the amounts of the songs were 12 songs. The range of the year of the songs observed was around 2013-2017. This paper used purposive sampling in selecting the rap songs. The idea of purposive sampling aims to help the researchers in selecting the data that would best help them in understanding the research problem and research question (Creswell, 2014, p. 239). Those selected singers represented their gender. Thus, this paper observed how slang words were used by different gender to represent their lexical style. There are two purposes that are going to be achieved in this research. The first is to find out the form(s) and meaning(s) of the slang words used in song lyrics by male and female rappers. The second one is to find out the style(s) of male and female rappers in using slang words in their song lyrics. To answer the previous inquiries, the writer uses stylistic approach, focusing on lexical analysis. There are 3 outcomes which are expected from the use of slang in song lyrics. First is male rappers tend to use 3 kinds of slang forms, which are compounding, shortening, and affixation, while female rappers tend to use 4 kinds of slang forms, which are compounding, shortening, affixation, and functional shift. The second one is slang used by male rappers show some certain meanings, which are vulgarity, crime, and finance, while slang used by female rappers show only one meaning, which is vulgarity. The third outcome is the styles of male and female rappers in using slang, in which male rappers use less slang forms than female ones, but with various meaning, while female rappers use more slang forms than male ones, but consistently with one meaning.

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