The Genres, Prosody and Pragmatics of Rap


Bachelor Thesis, 2010

46 Pages, Grade: 1,1


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Table of Contents

1. Preliminaries

2. A Brief History of Rap Music

3. Genres of Rap
3.1 Party Rap
3.2 Mack Rap
3.3 Jazz Rap
3.4 Reality Rap
3.5 Generalizations and Comparisons of Genres

4. Prosody of Rap
4.1 Experiment
4.2 Flow Diagrams
4.3 Analysis of Speech-Effusive Flow
4.4 Analysis of Sung Flow
4.5 Analysis of percussion-effusive Flow
4.6 Prosodic Similarities and Differences of Flows

5. Pragmatics of Rap
5.1 Speech Act Theory
5.2 Speech Acts
5.3 Word-to-world Direction of Fit vs. World-to-word Direction of Fit
5.4 Classification of Illocutionary Acts
5.5 Black Speech Acts
5.6 Dissing

6. Conclusion

Appendix
Flow Diagrams
Tables

References

Online Sources

Discography

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Title
The Genres, Prosody and Pragmatics of Rap
College
Bielefeld University
Grade
1,1
Author
Year
2010
Pages
46
Catalog Number
V172290
ISBN (eBook)
9783640921607
ISBN (Book)
9783640921270
File size
704 KB
Language
English
Notes
doesn't contain song texts
Keywords
genres, prosody, pragmatics
Quote paper
Said Abir Anbari (Author), 2010, The Genres, Prosody and Pragmatics of Rap, Munich, GRIN Verlag, https://www.grin.com/document/172290

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