American Hip-hop vs. Egyptian Mahraganat Songs A Cognitive Linguistic Study Based on the Conceptual Metaphor Theory | ||||
| لوجوس | ||||
| Article 6, Volume 12, Issue 12, 2023, Page 45-67 PDF (382.9 K) | ||||
| Document Type: المقالة الأصلية | ||||
| DOI: 10.21608/logos.2023.377977 | ||||
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| Author | ||||
| Alaa El-Badri | ||||
| Nile University | ||||
| Abstract | ||||
| This study investigated the similarities and differences between the conceptual metaphors (CMs) utilized in two popular music genres, American hip-hop and Egyptian Mahraganat. The study data consisted of the top ten songs of hip-hop and Mahraganat in 2020, as was determined by Spotify. The theory of CM (Deignan, 2005; Grady, Oakley & Coulson, 1999; Lakoff & Johnson, 1980), which belongs to the cognitive linguistic domain, was employed to analyze the song lyrics of the two music genres to identify the CMs found in each. Then a comparison was constructed between the extracted CMs of each group, and the similarities and differences between them were determined. Findings revealed that the resemblance in the CMs between the two music genres rose from the presence of similar life challenges encountered in the music industry by both the American and the Egyptian artists. On the other hand, the differences in the CMs between the two genres were attributed to the oppositions in the values and concepts of each culture. This was exemplified in the presentation of love and women in each genre. | ||||
| Keywords | ||||
| Hip-hop genre; Mahraganat genre; Cognitive linguistics; Conceptual metaphor; Similarities and differences | ||||
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