DOI: 10.36344/ccijhss.2019.v05i12.001

Pages: 349-353

In the Senegalese rap discourse, terms of address such as appellative are generally used to address others or to designate something. This article aims at analyzing the different forms of diabolic appellatives used by rappers when they are addressing the politician or are talking about the political system. The corpus is composed of fifteen songs produced during the last 20 years by rappers well known in the Senegalese hip hop scene. The obtained results indicate that the categories of appellatives most frequently used by the rapper are neological, qualifying, anthroponymic, kinship and metaphorical appellatives. These appellatives have a negative connotation and aim at caricaturing the politician or the political system.