The rap lyrics often deal with the same subjects from different perspectives. The musicians choose the themes for their rap pieces with which they identify the most. These texts have been thoroughly accepted by linguists, but rap has not been viewed as a whole, but the researches rather have been concentrated on its individual manifestations. In the present article I analyze whether we can regard the German and Polish song lyrics in rap as an autobiographical text type and what information they can use to enrich the biographies of their authors. I will start with the history of rap, which provides information about the primary goal and the main functions of this genre. The research material was taken from 401 quotations from 23 German and 25 Polish songs and compared with available information about the authors. All quotations are assigned to the most frequently repeatable life categories and counted. In the light of the materials I have analyzed, it is clear that there is a diver- gence not only between individual authors, but also between the German and Polish perceptions of many aspects of life.
The paper treats the role of the vocabulary connected to violence in the French rap. We will verify the hypothesis that this kind of vocabulary (vulgarisms and words semantically associated with violence) in our corpus is predominantly accentuated in the lyrics by the means of homophonies. This hypothesis is based on the premise that words with some kind of homophony are naturally emphasized in the flow of the rapper (Barret 2008). We are going to use the corpus of 97 songs by three interprets — Diam’s, MC Solaar and Rohff. We will use three marks : first mark concerns the vulgarisms, the second words semantically associated with violence and the third all the homophonies in the corpus. If the hypothesis is confirmed, the conclusion, that violent aspects are objectively highlighted and therefore more prominent in French rap, follows.
The article discusses the use of proverbs in Polish hip-hop lyrics. The paper talks about the presence of paremias in Polish rap songs, analyzes their formal transformations (enumerating syntactic and lexical changes in the shape of proverbs), as well as examines the exploitation of proverbial semantics with a view of presenting individual and more general values of the Polish hip-hop community.
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W artykule przedstawiono analizę przysłów w wybranych tekstach polskiego hip-hopu. Artykuł omawia miejsce paremii w tekstach rapu, rezentuje przekształcenia formalne (gramatyczno-leksykalne) i semantyczne proverbiów oraz bada znaczenia wykorzystywanych przysłów w kreowaniu ideologicznego obrazu polskiego hip-hopu.
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