Rap as Korean Rhyme
Local Enregisterment of the Foreign
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2286166 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Jonghyun Park (0000-0003-4241-3842, Department of Anthropology University of Illinois, Urbana‐Champaign 109 Davenport Hall, 607 S. Mathews Ave. 61801 Urbana Illinois United States) |
| Year | 2016 |
| Volume | 26 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 278-293 |
| Publication date | 2016-12-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of Linguistic Anthropology (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1055-1360 • E-ISSN: 1548-1395 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1111/jola.12135 |
| OpenAlex | W2567391590 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 4 |
| References cited | 8 |
This article investigates how a "foreign" register of rap is emerging among South Korean rappers through debates and experiments. It focuses on a dispute about the essentiality and translatability of rhyming, a novel verbal-artistic device, and traces how rhyme has become understood as a defining feature of the register of Korean rap. Korean rappers have grappled with metapragmatic definitions of the semiotic linkage between rhyme and rap and the realization of rhyme at a pragmatic level, performatively bringing into being new forms of rhyming, based on their knowledge of local registers and of the linguistic differences between Korean and English. This ongoing pragmatic/metapragmatic practice contributes to the register-formation of Korean rap as a dynamic process that remains open to the creation of new strategies for realizing "Korean rhyme" in its genre-history
Discourse Analysis in Language Studies · Linguistic Variation and Morphology · Multilingual Education and Policy
| Citations per year | 0.8 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2021 - 2025 (5) |
| Highly cited | No |