Kuzmenko A.
Candidate of Philological Sciences, associated professor, Dnipropetrovsk State
University of Internal Affairs
Vukolova K.
Candidate of Philological Sciences, associated professor, Dnipropetrovsk State
University of Internal Affairs
Biriukova D.
Candidate of Philological Sciences, associated professor, University of Customs
and Finance
DISCOURSE ANALYSIS
OF FOLKLORE AND MODERN ENGLISH SONGS
Introduction. In current terms of “the language nihilism” knowledge and
understanding of the fundamentals of the native speech and culture, its interaction and
interrelation with other languages in a multicultural society is the starting point in
linguistic and cultural consciousness, which contributes to the preservation of the
common culture and the achievement of unity in a cultural and communicative
environment. Culture is a conglomerate of various national cultures, and one of its most
important functions is the awakening person’s wild and irreconcilable natural gravity.
According to L.S. Vygotskiy, art “allows you to experience great passions that have
not found their way out in real life ... The world is poured into man through a wide hole
of the funnel of a thousand appeals, trains, stimuli - this part of life that has not been
fulfilled must be saved one way or another” [1, p. 301]. This opinion is true for both
music and songs. In all periods of people’s development the very song has been played
the key role in the community. Thus the song text should be investigated as the
component of cultural space which has the huge power of influence on its expedients:
the song has both – creating and destroying power as for the language and its speakers
(possibility to formthe corpus of verbal means which are appreciated by the speaker’s
as the standard ones, and they can be further used for personal thoughts and emotion’s
expression).
The purpose of this work is to analyse the texts of folk and author English songs
due to discourse approach. Thus, the object of the research is folk and author English
lyric text, while its subject is the functional differential and integrative features of the
text.
The interest to song discourse and lyric texts can be discernible in the range of
scientific papers. О.А. Karapetian’s research [2] is dedicated to the observation of
expressive and semantic song structure; О.V. Nahibina [3] has analysed the content
language features of modern song texts; О.О. Malahova [4] has dealt with the aesthetic
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