Ciało w tekstach piosenek polskich raperów

Abstract

This article is an attempt to analyse the portrayal of the body in the lyrics of Polish hip hop songs. The analysis focuses on one hundred randomly chosen songs which include the lexeme ciało ‘body’. All the analysed songs were written by Polish rappers after the year 2000. The paper begins by describing the hip hop subculture; it also presents an overview of the definitions of the term ciało ‘body’ offered by dictionaries of contemporary Polish. The analysis of the collected lyrics reveals that rappers use the noun ciało ‘body’ to refer to ‘an organism, alive or dead, seen as a whole’ as well as to ‘a female’ presented as a sexual object.