MISS KO 葛仲珊 - CALL ME

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Miss Ko is an American-Taiwanese rapper who code-switches in her lyrics, sometimes mid-sentence. It seems like the purpose of her code-switching is to create a "cool" identity. Most of the words or phrases in English are what I would associate with such an identity: references to American celebrities or slang like "main squeeze", "homie", or "holla at me". The bulk of the song is in Chinese, but she supplements English in order to (from my reading) present herself a certain way.

Posted by Gregor McGee on March 17, 2015

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Mandarin Chinese;
Code-switching;
Indexicality;
Agency

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