| Summary: | 碩士 === 國立臺北科技大學 === 應用英文系 === 106 === Codes-switching (hereafter CS) deployed in conversations and songs indexes some rights and obligations sets stimulated by one’s cultural and historical meanings of the languages (Myers-Scotton, 1993; Bentahila and Davies, 2002). Rap music in Taiwan, a music genre lying between spoken form and literary form, inherits the rebellious and confronting attributes from its Afro-American predecessor, and also blends in the traits of the spoken and literary CS. Additionally, in a confronting scenario, CS can be adopted as a strategy for face-attacking to gain control in a conversation (Gross, 2000) or as mitigation to deal with it (Su, 2001). Grounded on these previous studies, 579 tokens of code-switching in Taiwan rap music were used to examine the CS employed in each kind of emotional tones of face-threatening lyrics to see the purposes and functions of CS stimulated by the rap performer’s cultural values. The findings show that marked codes not only serve as the lexical borrowing (Albakry and Hacock, 2008) or poetic functions (Davies & Bentahila, 2008) such as rhyming. Code-switching expressions also asserts different emotions to intensify the certain moods to attain face-threatening acts. Further, it could cause damage to face through either overturn (Gross, 2000) or consolidate the power disparity between speakers and hearers to claim the authority of utterances.
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