The Textbattle and the Contention of Youth Identities Online
An Ethnographic Case Study 1
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 9853630 |
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| Authors | Samuel Hunter Jones (Transnational Press London, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2009 |
| Volume | 62 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 96-113 |
| Publication date | 2009-01-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | German Life and Letters (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0016-8777 • E-ISSN: 1468-0483 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1111/j.1468-0483.2008.01451.x |
| OpenAlex | W2074770283 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 16 |
The topics of youth language, computer‐mediated communication (CMC) and hip‐hop language are all established fields of contemporary linguistic research. Research into the nexus of all three fields is however far less prevalent. Whilst papers have been published that provide excellent introductions to the field, little or no study has been dedicated to analysing particular aspects of the online hip‐hop world with reference to the relationship between youth identity and language. This paper exclusively documents and analyses the strategies employed by textbattlers , who interact online in the equivalent of the traditional MC contest or battle and spar for lyrical dominance. The analysis of the corpus suggests the potential for a culture of linguistic hypersensitivity and conscious linguistic performance to arise within this specific online hip‐hop genre, the textbattle . It is in this sense that this genre has particular relevance to the question of how far individuals can be seen to manage consciously their identity through linguistic performance
Aesthetics · Art · CONTEST · Dominance (genetics · Ethnography · Field (mathematics · Identity (music · Linguistics · Nexus (standard · Political science · Sociology · Anthropology · Computer Science · Digital Communication and Language · Discourse Analysis in Language Studies · Multilingual Education and Policy
| Highly cited | No |
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