Rock-discourse as the reflection of Perestroika

Цель статьи – выявление реформаторского потенциала рок-музыки, который проявился в ходе Перестройки. Гипотезой исследования стала мысль о том, что молодежная музыка была не столько двигателем процессов изменения советского общества, сколько отражала намерения власти и ход реальных реформ, служила для апробации реформаторского дискурса. Исследование проведено на основе анализа нарративных интервью с очевидцами событий, музыкантами и людьми, близкими к рок-культуре в конце 1980-х гг., публикаций в прессе описываемого периода, неопубликованных документов. Появление и развитие описанного в статье дискурса указывает на использование рок-музыки в качестве индикатора изменений и инструмента для забрасывания камней, то есть апробации радикальных идей и решений. The aim of this article is detection of reform potential of rock-music during Soviet Perestroika. Hypothesis of research is idea that youth music was not so much a support for changing of the Soviet society, but it was a mirror, which reflected intentions of power and process of real reforms. Rock-music was used for the testing of reform discourse. The forming and development of this discourse indicates the use of rock-music as an indicator of changings and instrument for check of discourse field or for testing radical ideas and decisions.

Metaphor As a Method of Expression and Implication of Verbal Agression (on the Example of Russian Rock Discourse)

The article is devoted to verbal aggression: possible approaches to the study of this phenomenon and the speech means that mark it are mentioned. First of all, the potential of stylistic devices in the implementation of the aggressive character of the text related to rock discourse is considered. The author analyses such means of speech aggression in which negative connotations and aggressive semantics appear as a result of metaphorical transfer or in the process of replacing with a descriptive turn according to the principle of periphery. In addition, attention is paid to the specifics of the implication of speech aggression in Russian rock discourse and the euphemistic properties of stylistic devices. The article contains numerous examples from both late Soviet and modern musical texts.

CHARACTERISTICS OF THE COLOUR BLUE METAPHORIZATION AT THE VERBAL LEVEL OF AMERICAN INTERNET AND ROCK DISCOURSE

The article in question deals with the functional features of the lexeme blue at the verbal level of American Internet and rock discourse with specific peculiarities and characteristics. The analysis of the contexts of the spheres of the specified linguistic cultures and the deployment direction of metaphors representing the color blue in the period from 2014 to the present is carried out. The authors highlight the conceptual components in relation to blue (institutional nominations, emotional state, morbial state, artifact-related nominations) and through a series of examples illustrate the variety of interpretations of the color under study. Thus, the selection of material was carried out by the method of continuous sampling from various and numerous contexts of the verbal level of the discourses under consideration. Based on the analysis of the identified uses of the lexeme blue , the intersection of the conceptual spheres with a bipolar connotation is established in relation to the representation of the police, morbial and emotional state. The similarities and differences in the functioning of blue are illustrated by means of a series of examples. The productivity and frequency of metaphors of the color blue, their significance and presence in the linguistic system are noted.

RARE METAPHORICAL MODELS OF THE COLOUR BLUE IN BRITISH AND AMERICAN ROCK-DISCOURSE

The article suggests a cognitive discourse analysis of the colour blue based on the material of the verbal and iconic levels of British and American rock-discourse. Special attention is devoted to metaphorical models of the colour blue that are rare. In other words, such metaphorical models are identified strictly in terms of only one level of specifically one studied discourse. The author also provides an overview of what has been previously achieved in the sphere of colour analysis. In general, the author discusses the specifics of 4 rare metaphorical models of British rock-discourse (verbal: BLUE - DETACHMENT / DEJECTION, BLUE - FEAR; iconic: BLUE - EXCEPTIONALITY, BLUE - PRIVELEGE) and 3 of the American one (verbal: BLUE - NATIONAL IDENTITY; iconic: BLUE - INTELLECT, BLUE - ROWDINESS). The presented results might be of interest to the researchers in the fields of cognitive linguistics, discourse theory, lexicology, etc.