“Yo I am Superman, You Kiddo Go Home”: ritual impoliteness in Chinese freestyle rap battles

2021 ◽  
Vol 0 (0) ◽  
Author(s):  
Mian Jia ◽  
Shuting Yao
Keyword(s):  
African American ◽  
Content Analysis ◽  
Discourse Analysis ◽  
Mixed Methods ◽  
Hip Hop ◽  
Filial Piety ◽  
Social Values ◽  
Community Norms ◽  
Moral Qualities

Abstract Introduced by African American communities, Chinese rap battle features an intensive ritual exchange of impoliteness, aggression, and vulgarity, but its linguistic realizations have not been systematically examined. Taking Iron Mic as a case study, this paper explores how advanced and novice rappers perform ritual impoliteness in Chinese underground rap battle competitions. Using mixed methods of discourse analysis and content analysis, we analyze the ritual impoliteness strategies in 51 rounds of Chinese freestyle rap battles. The findings show that advanced and novice rappers employed comparable instances of taboo language, threatening, and insults on their opponents’ superficial qualities and rap skills. Moreover, advanced rappers performed significantly more boasting and ritual insults on the others’ moral qualities. Their use of ritual impoliteness is warranted by hip-hop community norms of authenticity and creativity as well as Chinese social values of reciprocity, filial piety, and moral educators. This paper contributes to the research on Chinese ritual impoliteness and rap battle competitions.

It’s more than a job: discourse and the treatment of elite footballers accused of sexual violence

2016 ◽  
Vol 161 (1) ◽  
pp. 68-76 ◽  
Author(s):  
Deb Waterhouse-Watson
Keyword(s):  
Discourse Analysis ◽  
Mixed Methods ◽  
21St Century ◽  
Role Models ◽  
Best Interests ◽  
Media Discourse ◽  
Logical Framework ◽  
Popular Imagination ◽  
Elite Level

In the 21st century, ‘playing’ football at the elite level is a profession in a multi-billion dollar business. However, the way it is imagined in media discourse and the popular imagination positions football and its athletes as transcending mere ‘work’, portraying them as ‘larrikin’ national heroes, pseudo-religious figures and role models. Taking the case of Andrew Lovett as a case study, a footballer ultimately fired after being charged with sexual assault, this article demonstrates the persistence of ‘non-work’ discourses in media reporting using mixed-methods discourse analysis. It shows how ‘transcendent’ discourses provide a logical framework that makes treating footballers differently from those in other public professions seem reasonable, enabling clubs and leagues to act in their own best interests.

Discursive strategies for disinformation on WhatsApp and Twitter during the 2018 Brazilian presidential election

First Monday ◽  
2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Raquel Recuero ◽  
Felipe Soares ◽  
Otávio Vinhas
Keyword(s):  
Discourse Analysis ◽  
Mixed Methods ◽  
Critical Discourse Analysis ◽  
Presidential Election ◽  
Critical Discourse ◽  
Conspiracy Theories ◽  
Mixed Methods Approach ◽  
Discursive Strategies ◽  
Rational Explanation

This paper aims to analyze and compare the discursive strategies used to spread and legitimate disinformation on Twitter and WhatsApp during the 2018 Brazilian presidential election. Our case study is the disinformation campaign used to discredit the electronic ballot that was used for the election. In this paper, we use a mixed methods approach that combined critical discourse analysis and a quantitative aggregate approach to discuss a dataset of 53 original tweets and 54 original WhatsApp messages. We focused on identifying the most used strategies in each platform. Our results show that: (1) messages on both platforms used structural strategies to portray urgency and create a negative emotional framing; (2) tweets often framed disinformation as a “rational” explanation; and, (3) while WhatsApp messages frequently relied on authorities and shared conspiracy theories, spreading less truthful stories than tweets.

scholarly journals Faces, Close-ups and Choreography: A Deleuzian Critique of So You Think You Can Dance

2014 ◽  
Vol 4 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sherril Dodds ◽  
Colleen Hooper
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
African American ◽  
Social Interaction ◽  
Everyday Life ◽  
Social Values ◽  
Central Position ◽  
Unique Identity ◽  
The Face ◽  
Dynamic Exchange

In everyday life the face occupies a central position within human expression and social interaction: its features are perceived to present a unique identity, and we breathe, consume and communicate through our faces. In this article, we explore two ideas as a means to examine the &ldquo;screendance face.&rdquo; First we introduce the notion of &ldquo;facial choreography&rdquo; to reflect on how the screen apparatus produces representations of dancing faces informed by aesthetic and social values. Secondly, we develop the concept of a &ldquo;choreographic inter<em>face</em>,&rdquo; which we conceive as an intertextual site of meaning whereby a dancing face both references and enters into a dynamic exchange with other faces. While these two concepts could be applied to any screendance face, to elucidate these ideas in motion, we turn to a specific screendance case study: an audition clip from <em>So You Think You Can Dance</em>, which features Brian Henry, a 22-year old African American man from Brooklyn, New York, who specializes in krumping.

Globalization of African American Vernacular English in popular culture

2011 ◽  
Vol 32 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-23 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jamie Shinhee Lee
Keyword(s):  
African American ◽  
Popular Culture ◽  
Hip Hop ◽  
African American Vernacular English ◽  
Vernacular English ◽  
Syntactic Features ◽  
Lexical Items ◽  
American Vernacular

This study examines crossing (Bucholtz 1999; Cutler 1999; Rampton 1995) in Korean hip hop Blinglish as a case study of globalization of African American Vernacular English (AAVE) in popular culture. Blinglish in Korean hip hop can be understood as a prime example of “English from below” (Preisler 1999) to informally express subcultural identity and style. The findings of the study suggest that AAVE features appear at different linguistic levels including lexis, phonology, and morpho-syntax in Korean hip hop Blinglish but do not demonstrate the same degree of AAVE penetration, with a frequency-related hierarchy emerging among these linguistic components. The area of Korean hip hop Blinglish with the heaviest crossing influence from AAVE is found to be lexis followed by phonology. The presence of AAVE syntactic features is somewhat restricted in type and occurrence, indicating that the verbal markers in AAVE are considerably varied and intricate, and syntactic elements are not as easily crossed by non-AAVE speakers as lexical items.

Politics

Brithop ◽  
2020 ◽  
pp. 91-118
Author(s):  
Justin A. Williams
Keyword(s):  
African American ◽  
Hip Hop ◽  
Status Quo ◽  
Primary Case ◽  
Minority Identity ◽  
The Status ◽  
Scottish Independence ◽  
Civic Nationalism

This chapter discusses the Scottish independence debate as performed in hip-hop, which deals with issues of power, economics, stereotypes, and civic nationalism in a postcolonial era. The chapter shows how these artists reinvent and subvert the notion of “Otherness” and minority identity by using humor and wordplay to critique stereotypes of Scottishness, Englishness, (African American) mainstream hip-hop, and most politically, the status quo. Stanley Odd and Loki address the referendum in different ways, but both utilize rapping as a folk protest medium by which to sound out their concerns and relevant debates surrounding independence. Primary case study tracks discussed in this chapter include “Marriage Counselling,” “Antiheroics,” “Son I Voted Yes,” all by Stanley Odd, and Loki’s album Government Issue Music Protest (G.I.M.P).

scholarly journals Populism, the media, and the mainstreaming of the far right: The Guardian’s coverage of populism as a case study

Politics ◽  
2020 ◽  
pp. 026339572095503
Author(s):  
Katy Brown ◽  
Aurelien Mondon
Keyword(s):  
Discourse Analysis ◽  
Mixed Methods ◽  
Public Discourse ◽  
Far Right ◽  
Mixed Methods Approach ◽  
Academic Publications ◽  
The Media ◽  
Political Speeches ◽  
The Guardian

Populism seems to define our current political age. The term is splashed across the headlines, brandished in political speeches and commentaries, and applied extensively in numerous academic publications and conferences. This pervasive usage, or populist hype, has serious implications for our understanding of the meaning of populism itself and for our interpretation of the phenomena to which it is applied. In particular, we argue that its common conflation with far-right politics, as well as its breadth of application to other phenomena, has contributed to the mainstreaming of the far right in three main ways: (1) agenda-setting power and deflection, (2) euphemisation and trivialisation, and (3) amplification. Through a mixed-methods approach to discourse analysis, this article uses The Guardian newspaper as a case study to explore the development of the populist hype and the detrimental effects of the logics that it has pushed in public discourse.

Theory-Building with Nud.Ist: Using Computer Assisted Qualitative Analysis in a Media Case Study

1999 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 1-14 ◽  
Author(s):  
Katie MacMillan ◽  
Shelley McLachlan
Keyword(s):  
Content Analysis ◽  
Discourse Analysis ◽  
Research Method ◽  
Single Case ◽  
Theory Building ◽  
Computer Assisted ◽  
Press Coverage ◽  
Single Case Study ◽  
The Press

We examine Nud.ist software in terms of its ëtheory-buildingí properties in order to access the extent to which Nud.ist can be used, not only to develop content categories, but also to develop a research method using two potentially incompatible approaches. The methods, content analysis and discourse analysis, were used in a single case study on education news in the press. Our case study, on how news about education issues gets constructed and framed by the national press into generalized themes and narratives, was initially informed by an extensive content analysis of the news over a twelve month period. Having identified variations in press coverage, we then collected large quantities of media text on education issues, using Nud.ist to organize and to recode the subsequent data. Having categorized the news extracts our aim was to then explore whether Nud.ist could assist a discourse analysis of the text.

IMAGE OF THE REPUBLIC OF MORDOVIA IN THE MEDIA VOLGA FEDERAL DISTRICT (BASED ON CONTENT ANALYSIS OF NEWS PUBLICATIONS)

2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (4) ◽  
pp. 44-52
Author(s):  
LARISA ZAITSEVA ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Content Analysis ◽  
Information Content ◽  
Federal District ◽  
Information Space ◽  
Political News ◽  
Social Sphere ◽  
The Media ◽  
The Republic ◽  
Number Of Publications

The territorial image is formed both purposefully by the subjects of image-making, and spontaneously-based on the influence of information content published in various media. The purpose of the research is to analyze the image of the Republic of Mordovia in the information space of the Volga Federal district. The image of the territory formed by external target audiences by means of news materials is studied using the method of case study and content analysis of publications: “Volga news”, “Federal Press” news of the PFD, “Pravda PFD”. The authors conclude that modern reality is perceived through the prism of the information field created by mass media. The media creates images filled with certain data, facts, colored by emotions, on the basis of which representations, opinions, judgments, and assessments are subsequently formed. The media play a significant role in shaping the territorial image, especially for external target audiences who are not familiar with the region and do not have their own assessment knowledge and experience. Most of the information content about the Republic in the studied media is related to the main thematic blocks: politics, economy, social sphere, culture (art, sports). Moreover, if in the publications “Volga news” and “Pravda PFD” mention of the region prevails in the economic block, then in the publications “Federal Press” and “Nezavisimaya Gazeta” - in the political one. The Volga news publication significantly dominates the rest in terms of the number of publications about Mordovia. The content of publications is mostly positive and neutral related to the issues of economic development of the territory and the preparation and holding of the world football championship. Pravda PFD mentions the Republic in the context of news from neighboring territories, most of the publications date back to 2018, but here the context is related to the Republic's positions among the regions of the PFD in various ratings. The publication “Federal-Press” forms a generally reflective image of the territory, focusing on the negative aspects of regional life. “Nezavisimaya Gazeta”, giving priority to political news, maintains a neutral and reflective context of publications, paying attention to the key problems of the territory. Thus, the desired image of the region is counter-dictated to the image broadcast by the media through various information channels, so it is necessary to constantly monitor the information space and timely correction of the broadcast materials.

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