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- Signifyin' abstract "Signifyin', or signifyin(g) (vernacular), is a form of wordplay. It is a practice in African-American culture involving a verbal strategy of indirection that exploits the gap between the denotative and figurative meanings of words. A simple example would be insulting someone to show affection.Signifyin' directs attention to the connotative, context-bound significance of words, which is accessible only to those who share the cultural values of a given speech community. The expression comes from stories about the Signifying Monkey, a trickster figure said to have originated during slavery in the United States.The American literary critic Henry Louis Gates Jr. wrote in The Signifying Monkey (1988) that signifyin' is "a trope, in which are subsumed several other rhetorical tropes, including metaphor, metonymy, synecdoche, and irony (the master tropes), and also hyperbole, litotes, and metalepsis. To this list we could easily add aporia, chiasmus, and catechresis, all of which are used in the ritual of Signifyin(g)."".
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- Signifyin' subject Category:African-American_culture.
- Signifyin' subject Category:Communication.
- Signifyin' subject Category:Rhetoric.
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- Signifyin' type TopicalConcept.
- Signifyin' type Concept.
- Signifyin' comment "Signifyin', or signifyin(g) (vernacular), is a form of wordplay. It is a practice in African-American culture involving a verbal strategy of indirection that exploits the gap between the denotative and figurative meanings of words. A simple example would be insulting someone to show affection.Signifyin' directs attention to the connotative, context-bound significance of words, which is accessible only to those who share the cultural values of a given speech community.".
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- Signifyin' wasDerivedFrom Signifyin'?oldid=586739417.
- Signifyin' depiction Henry_Louis_Gates_Jr.jpg.
- Signifyin' isPrimaryTopicOf Signifyin'.
