Slam poetry as a specific text-production technique (abstract)
2013. november 05. kedd, 22:51

Slam poetry is a kind of performance-poetry competition; a verbal contest with relatively few formal restrictions, voiced in the language of the street but in a sophisticated way. The increasingly popular slam movement, which functions as a kind of subculture, has been present in Hungary since 2006. The quality of poems may vary to a great extent. Their most important stylistic characteristics are the following: use of colloquial language and slang; foul language; antithesis, repetition and enumeration as figures of speech; neologisms and hapax legomena; linguistic humour and creativity manifested in, among others, puns, anti-proverbs and twisted common places. These texts exert their effect almost exclusively during the oral performance, making them relate to the strengthening trend of our days which puts orality before literacy.

 

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