Performing rap ciphas in late-modern Cape Town: extreme locality and multilingual citizenship

摘要: The study of hip-hop in Cape Town, and indeed South Africa, has traditionally focused on the narratives poetics resistance, race counter-hegemonic agency context apartheid early days post-apartheid. Despite this attention, cipha performances remain relatively under-researched. aim paper is to suggest that display linguistic discursive features not only are particular interest rap music Flats Town specifically, but also engage core issues around multilingualism, voice more generally. It demonstrates how process entextualization a sense locality, extreme emerges by means verbal cueing, representing place, expressing disrespect (dissing), (deictic) reference local coordinates achieved transposing or recontextualizing transidiomatic phrases, incorporating proxemics audience reactions through commentary response. concludes suggestingthat competition acceptable forms framings (metalinguistic disputes) locality comprise very micro-processes behind formation new registers. At same time, these registers create semiotic space for exercise multilingual practices, is, citizenship.