Idealogisation of Musical Terms (in Newspapers in USSR and Nazi Germany)

This capstone project is a research of musical terms which have become in totalitarian discourse ideologemes. As a resources of analysis newspapers, magazines and books about music which were published in USSR and Third Reich were used. Several methods were used in this paper. That is descriptive and comparative analysis as well as linguistical expertise and analytical description of language facts. While comparative analysis hierarchical clustering was used. Highlighted traits of totalitarian language which were found and described in theoretical part of the work were as well found in practical analysis. Primitivism is a phenomena stereotypization, directivism and unification in axiological polarization principle. After analysis musical-terms as ideologemes following units were found in Third Reich discourse: идеологемы: «modern Musik», «entartete Musik», «atonale Musik», «absolute Musik» and «neue Musik», ideologemes connected with entertainment: «Jazz» «Swing» «Tango», «Hott». Analysis of USSR ideologemes shown following ideologemes: «мелодичность», «ритм», «такт», «эстрада», «джаз», «труба», «саксофон», идеологемы dancing styles names («танго», «румба», «свинг» и т.д.), «мюзик-холл», «ревю» and «варьете» ;«легкая музыка». Analysis has shown that main tool of ideologisation in musical field in totalitarian discourse is a semantical opposition between two open lexical classes “ours” and “theirs”