(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Rzeszowskiego, 2017) Styś, Krystian
This article is going to present the analisys and history of hashtags in the hip-hop music and lyrics, which are – according to the author – appearing also on the Internet. Research material includes collected fragments of tracks and also the results of the questionnaire directed to rap- -listeners, rapers and journalist interested in this music genre. Special emphasis have been put on main functions of hashtags and their similarity to selected stylistic measures. Furthermore, groupped subject matter of the presented examples shows variety of rapers’ new language element. Conclusion is set to be a new definition of hashtag.
