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English and German pop song lyrics : Towards a contrastive textology
Werner, Valentin (2023): „English and German pop song lyrics : Towards a contrastive textology“. Regensburg: Gesellschaft für Sprachtechnologie und Computerlinguistik doi: 10.21248/jlcl.36.2023.235.
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Title of the Journal:
Journal for language technology and computational linguistics : JLCL
ISSN:
2190-6858
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Year of publication:
2023
Volume:
36
Issue:
1
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Language:
English
Abstract:
The present contribution offers a contrastive corpus-based analysis of English and German pop lyrics. It conceptualizes lyrics as a specific text type/register and tries to identify cross-linguistic commonalities and differences. As empirical base, it uses corpora that represent the lyrics of commercially highly successful pop songs in Anglophone and German contexts. Given the similar sociocultural functions and production circumstances of English and Ger-man lyrics, the study starts from the assumption that a large-scale linguistic overlap can be traced. While indeed cross-linguistic convergence is found especially for lexical patterns in terms of topic choice, the analysis also reveals a common property of conveying a conversa-tional feel through lexicogrammatical means. However, given the differing typological make-up of the languages contrasted, fine-grained differences emerge as regards the ways conver-sationality/informality is established in pop lyrics as a performed text type.
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Englisch
Deutsch
Korpus <Linguistik>
Popmusik
Vergleichende Sprachwissenschaft
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pop culture
pop cultural linguistics
performed language
media language
music
media linguistics
textlinguistics
register study
typology
LYPOP
Songkorpus
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International Distribution:
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Article
Activation date:
May 17, 2023
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https://fis.uni-bamberg.de/handle/uniba/59413