"That's Just Not Me": Stylistic Language and Authentic Dialectic Identity in Canadian Women MCs

How they used Delve

A Master of Arts student in Linguistics at the University of Manitoba used Delve to tag and sort interviews with six Canadian women MCs into categories, following Corbin and Strauss's grounded theory to study how stylistic language expresses authentic identity in hip-hop.

“Analysis was done using Delve Tool, a qualitative analysis software through which relevant elements could be tagged and sorted into categories. Coding and analysis practices were done based on the Grounded Theory approach (Corbin & Strauss, 1998)”

Field

sociolinguistics; hip-hop and gender

Data

Interviews with six Canadian women MCs (rappers) about their stylistic language and identity

Approach

Grounded theory (Corbin & Strauss 1998); transcripts tagged and sorted into categories in Delve, unclear low-confidence transcription segments excluded

Data types

Interviews