Discursive Evolution and Pragmatic Ambivalence of the Idiom ‘Ride or Die’ in American Linguoculture
The study examines the linguacultural transformation of the image of unconditional loyalty in American English through the evolution of the idiom ‘ride or die’ — from a marker of criminal solidarity in African American English and 1990s hip-hop to its current pragmatic duality, where positive evaluation of absolute loy...