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INDIGENISED LINGUISTIC CODES AND NIGERIANISM IN SELECTED HIP-HOP SONGS OF ADEKUNLE GOLD AND FOLARIN FALANA

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Julianah Akindele *, Rosemary Mayokun
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INDIGENISED LINGUISTIC CODES AND NIGERIANISM IN SELECTED HIP-HOP SONGS OF ADEKUNLE GOLD AND FOLARIN FALANA

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The Nigerian hip-hop music industry as a site for popular cultural practices has always played the role of propagating indigenised linguistic codes and structures that project social meaning and entrench language creativity in popular culture. Within the realities of varieties of English, this study examines some features of Nigerianism in selected songs by Adekunle Gold and Folarin Falana (Falz). Selected albums and tracks of these two prominent Nigerian hip-hop artistes constituted the data, and were analysed with the conceptual orientations of William Labov’s variation theory. This framework was preferred because it deals with linguistic differentiations and the description of variations in the speech of members of a social class and in the speech of members of a speech community. Findings show that bilingual pragmatic markers, coinages, semantic contrast, loan words, lexical reduplication, local symbolisms and slangs are some of the linguistic codes and communicative practices that are deployed in these hip-hop songs for local colouration and conveyance of social meaning, especially among the youth population. The study concludes that the interjection of bilingual communicative features into English language usage results in Nigerianism, and hip-hop artists deliberately use these indigenised linguistic codes to create, recreate, and reflect social experiences

Anahtar Kelimeler

Indigenised linguistic codes, Nigerianism, Nigerian hip-hop music, language variation, popular culture

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APA
Akindele, J., & Mayokun, R. (2025). INDIGENISED LINGUISTIC CODES AND NIGERIANISM IN SELECTED HIP-HOP SONGS OF ADEKUNLE GOLD AND FOLARIN FALANA. Africania, 5(1), 1-13. https://doi.org/10.58851/africania.1613397
AMA
1.Akindele J, Mayokun R. INDIGENISED LINGUISTIC CODES AND NIGERIANISM IN SELECTED HIP-HOP SONGS OF ADEKUNLE GOLD AND FOLARIN FALANA. Africania. 2025;5(1):1-13. doi:10.58851/africania.1613397
Chicago
Akindele, Julianah, ve Rosemary Mayokun. 2025. “INDIGENISED LINGUISTIC CODES AND NIGERIANISM IN SELECTED HIP-HOP SONGS OF ADEKUNLE GOLD AND FOLARIN FALANA”. Africania 5 (1): 1-13. https://doi.org/10.58851/africania.1613397.
EndNote
Akindele J, Mayokun R (01 Ocak 2025) INDIGENISED LINGUISTIC CODES AND NIGERIANISM IN SELECTED HIP-HOP SONGS OF ADEKUNLE GOLD AND FOLARIN FALANA. Africania 5 1 1–13.
IEEE
[1]J. Akindele ve R. Mayokun, “INDIGENISED LINGUISTIC CODES AND NIGERIANISM IN SELECTED HIP-HOP SONGS OF ADEKUNLE GOLD AND FOLARIN FALANA”, Africania, c. 5, sy 1, ss. 1–13, Oca. 2025, doi: 10.58851/africania.1613397.
ISNAD
Akindele, Julianah - Mayokun, Rosemary. “INDIGENISED LINGUISTIC CODES AND NIGERIANISM IN SELECTED HIP-HOP SONGS OF ADEKUNLE GOLD AND FOLARIN FALANA”. Africania 5/1 (01 Ocak 2025): 1-13. https://doi.org/10.58851/africania.1613397.
JAMA
1.Akindele J, Mayokun R. INDIGENISED LINGUISTIC CODES AND NIGERIANISM IN SELECTED HIP-HOP SONGS OF ADEKUNLE GOLD AND FOLARIN FALANA. Africania. 2025;5:1–13.
MLA
Akindele, Julianah, ve Rosemary Mayokun. “INDIGENISED LINGUISTIC CODES AND NIGERIANISM IN SELECTED HIP-HOP SONGS OF ADEKUNLE GOLD AND FOLARIN FALANA”. Africania, c. 5, sy 1, Ocak 2025, ss. 1-13, doi:10.58851/africania.1613397.
Vancouver
1.Julianah Akindele, Rosemary Mayokun. INDIGENISED LINGUISTIC CODES AND NIGERIANISM IN SELECTED HIP-HOP SONGS OF ADEKUNLE GOLD AND FOLARIN FALANA. Africania. 01 Ocak 2025;5(1):1-13. doi:10.58851/africania.1613397