Üner, Sarp (2014) To what extent are the mob languages responsible for the rise and success of ethnically based organized crime in the U.S. from late 19th century to early 20th century? Other thesis, TED ANKARA KOLEJİ.
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Abstract
Mob language studies have seen various attempts at explaining the major effect of the use of this specific language and its contribution to the rise of Mafia in the USA. Different scholars, writers and researchers have variously emphasized the role of crime subcultures and their unique vernaculars in the U.S. In this paper, I would like to report on an even more ambitious claim that the rise organized crime in the U.S. would have not been possible were it not to the wielding of specific mob languages. The goal of the paper is to analyze the selection and use of special vocabulary to bind organized crime members together and avoid the governmental and judiciary control. This paper aims to show how mob languages developed as fusion languages resulting from the interaction of English with the experiences of different groups of people at different times. Crime usually results from socio-economic despair and dissatisfaction. We usually come across these two factors as an end product of immigrant stories and ostracism of different ethnic and socio-economic groups within a society. Out of this situation evolves many things: literature, songs, movies and arts related to this feeling of being the “outcasts”. However, lack of opportunities, feeling of alienation and despair also result in a tendency towards crime. When this situation of becoming the “outcast” occurs to any group, the group’s self-identification changes with its specific circumstances and gives rise to a specific language and culture that is self-evident in various cultural artifacts related to the group. When criminal tendencies permeate the group, this development of language and culture results in the development of a mob language that in return brings about many advantages for organized crime. As far as my research is concerned, my conclusion is that the creation of specific mob languages in the organized crime scene of U.S. has greatly shaped the successes of these criminal organizations.
| Item Type: | Thesis (Other) |
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| Additional Information: | IB Notu: C |
| Uncontrolled Keywords: | mob languages, ethnically based organized crime |
| Subjects: | P Language and Literature > PE English |
| Depositing User: | Kamil Çömlekçi |
| Date Deposited: | 12 Sep 2014 10:32 |
| Last Modified: | 12 Sep 2014 10:32 |
| URI: | http://tedprints.tedankara.k12.tr/id/eprint/544 |
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