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Signifyin' (sometimes written "signifyin(g)") (vernacular), is a wordplay. It is a practice in African-American culture involving a verbal strategy of indirection that exploits the gap between the denotative and figurative meanings of words. A simple example would be insulting someone to show affection. Other names for signifyin' include: "Dropping lugs, joaning, sounding, capping, snapping, dissing, busting, bagging, janking, ranking, toasting, woofing, roasting, putting on, or cracking."
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| dbo:abstract | Signifyin' (sometimes written "signifyin(g)") (vernacular), is a wordplay. It is a practice in African-American culture involving a verbal strategy of indirection that exploits the gap between the denotative and figurative meanings of words. A simple example would be insulting someone to show affection. Other names for signifyin' include: "Dropping lugs, joaning, sounding, capping, snapping, dissing, busting, bagging, janking, ranking, toasting, woofing, roasting, putting on, or cracking." Signifyin' directs attention to the connotative, context-bound significance of words, which is accessible only to those who share the cultural values of a given speech community. The expression comes from stories about the signifying monkey, a trickster figure said to have originated during slavery in the United States. The American literary critic Henry Louis Gates Jr. wrote in The Signifying Monkey (1988) that signifyin' is "a trope, in which are subsumed several other rhetorical tropes, including metaphor, metonymy, synecdoche, and irony (the master tropes), and also hyperbole, litotes, and metalepsis. To this list we could easily add aporia, chiasmus, and catachresis, all of which are used in the ritual of Signifyin(g)." (en) Означивание («signifyin'» или прост. «signifyin(g)») — одна из форм игры слов в афро-американской культуре, связанная с использованием непрямого высказывания, ведущего к разрыву между означающим и переносным(и) смыслом(ами) слова. Простой пример: оскорбление кого-либо с целью показать своё расположение. Означивание актуализирует коннотативные, контекстуальные значения слова, которые доступны только тем, кто разделяет культурные ценности данного речевого сообщества. Само определение signifyin' происходит из рассказов об Означивающей обезьяне (Signifying Monkey), персонаже-трикстере, который, очевидно, появляется в период рабства в Соединенных Штатах. Американский литературный критик Генри Луис Гейтс-младший написал в своей книге «Означивающая обезьяна» (1988), что signifyin' — это «троп, в который входят несколько других тропов, в том числе метафора, метонимия, синекдоха и ирония (мастер тропов), а также гиперболы, литоты, и . К этому списку мы могли бы легко добавить апории, хиазм и катахрезу, которые используются в ритуале Signifyin(g)». (ru) |
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| rdfs:comment | Signifyin' (sometimes written "signifyin(g)") (vernacular), is a wordplay. It is a practice in African-American culture involving a verbal strategy of indirection that exploits the gap between the denotative and figurative meanings of words. A simple example would be insulting someone to show affection. Other names for signifyin' include: "Dropping lugs, joaning, sounding, capping, snapping, dissing, busting, bagging, janking, ranking, toasting, woofing, roasting, putting on, or cracking." (en) Означивание («signifyin'» или прост. «signifyin(g)») — одна из форм игры слов в афро-американской культуре, связанная с использованием непрямого высказывания, ведущего к разрыву между означающим и переносным(и) смыслом(ами) слова. Простой пример: оскорбление кого-либо с целью показать своё расположение. (ru) |
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