JAZYKOVO-ŠTYLISTICKÉ DOMINANTY SLOVENSKÝCH PIESŇOVÝCH TEXTOV (HITOV Z ROKOV 1993 – 2022)

• Authors: Ivančová Lena , Čurošová Gavalcová Andrea

Title variants

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Linguistic and stylistic dominants of Slovak song lyrics (Hits from 1993 – 2022)

• Languages of publication: SK

Abstracts

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The study elucidates the linguistic and stylistic dominants of 60 lyrics of popular songs from 1993 – 2022 in Slovakia. The research is focused on the characteristics of preferred lexical and morphological stylemes on a wider motivic-semantic background and on the analysis of syntactic-phonic dominants of song lyrics. The research has shown that the authors of song lyrics rarely reach for book words, poetically sounding phrases and general statements, they mostly build their texts on dynamic replicas, or internal monologues of the characters of the songs, which are often transformed into fictitious dialogues, or replicas directed to another character. The significant representation (frequent repetition) of highly frequent lexemes confirms the motivic kinship and the relatively small content-thematic variability of these lyrics. Many contrasts appear in them, antonyms of different types, which fulfil the function of perceptually simple problem elements. Versological symmetry and regularity of rhyming schemes is often disturbed by asymmetric syntactic-phonic structures.

Keywords

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POPULAR SONG; SONG LYRICS; LANGUAGE STYLEME; SLOVAKIA; SLOVAK LYRICISTS

• Publisher: Ludovit Stur Institute of Linguistics, Slovak Academy of Sciences
• Journal: Slovenská reč (Slovak Language)
• Year: 2024
• Volume: 89
• Issue: 1
• Pages: 78 – 96

Contributors

author

Ivančová Lena

• Univerzita Pavla Jozefa Šafárika, Filozofická fakulta, Moyzesova 9, 040 59 Košice, Slovak Republic

• https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0240-1505

author

Čurošová Gavalcová Andrea

• https://orcid.org/0009-0007-8804-8808

Identifiers

DOI

https://doi.org/10.31577/slovrec.2024.1.5