Essays about: "Queer Culture"

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  1. 21. Don't mess with chicks in Burberry paddings : Semantic change in hip-hop lyrics and its impact on mainstream American English

    University essay from Institutionen för humaniora

    Author : Margareta Exenberger; [2008]
    Keywords : amelioration; chick; hip-hop lyrics; mainstream English; pejoration; pimp semantic change; slang; swearwords; queer;

    Abstract : Some people might regard the language of hip-hop as being crude, sexist and inappropriate. Nevertheless, hip-hop culture can also be considered as one of the underground sources of word-formation and language change in mainstream English. Young people have always been a source of language variation and lexical innovation whether we like it or not. READ MORE