graduate student from 01.01.2021 to 01.01.2026
Moscow, Russian Federation
UDC 81
CSCSTI 16.01
Russian Library and Bibliographic Classification 81
Russian Trade and Bibliographic Classification 8417
Songs, music videos, biographies of musicians, and music forums occupy a lot of virtual space. Internet users have to adapt musical terms to virtual communication, turning online musical commentary into a new speech genre. The author studied music-related texts, users’ comments, and video reviews in the Russian-speaking segment of the Internet to identify the processes of terminological adaptation and the genre specifics of music commentaries. Music-related terms undergo a deep transformation on the Internet. As a result of semantic expansion combined with grammatical and stylistic decline, consistency and rigor give way to creativity and expressiveness. This adapted terminology system becomes the linguistic foundation for a new, dynamically developing speech genre of music commentary. It is a subjective and emotional statement rather than an objective analysis, but it fulfills certain social and expressive functions.
musical terminology, Internet linguistics, speech genre, virtual communication, digital culture, musical commentary, language play, discourse
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