Discursive Evolution and Pragmatic Ambivalence of the Idiom ‘Ride or Die’ in American Linguoculture
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the study examines the linguacultural transformation of the image of unconditional loyalty in American English through the evolution of the idiom ‘ride or die’ — from a marker of criminal solidarity in African American English and 1990s hip-hop to its current pragmatic duality, where positive evaluation of absolute loyalty coexists with critique of toxic codependency in digital media. The empirical base comprises over 500 contexts: song lyrics, dictionary definitions, social media posts, icles from Cosmopolitan and Refinery, Reddit discussions, and materials from “The Ride or Die Project” (201...
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