Russian Linguistic Bulletin (Sep 2020)

MEANS OF CONVEYING IMPLICIT INFORMATION IN LYRICS (THROUGH THE EXAMPLE OF THE SONG “WE DON’T WANNA PUT IN”)

  • Knyazkov, D.A.

DOI
https://doi.org/10.18454/RULB.2020.23.3.16
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 2020, no. 3 (23)
pp. 48 – 54

Abstract

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The article is devoted to the lyrics linguistic examination of the song “We don’t wanna put in” that was to have been the Georgian entry to the Eurovision Song Contest 2009. The purpose of the research was to ascertain the presence of verbal violations of the Contest in the lyrics. The methods of description, text interpretation and discourse analysis of the lyrics enabled package treatment of the song authors’ intentions, finding the linguistic manipulation methods, the conclusion that confirmed the theoretical hypothesis suggested in this paper.

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