Modern Music Discourse In Specialized Media: Specifics Of Language And Communication

The paper enriches the knowledge in the fields of discourse analysis and media studies. It focuses on the specifics of language and communication of the modern professional music discourse in Russian specialized media. The methodology of the research contains such tools of linguistic analysis as lexical analysis and stylistic analysis. The paper is intended to define the dominant features of professional music discourse in music media and figure out their functions. First, the paper evaluates the communicative frame of professional music discourse in Russian media and defines the extralinguistic factors that shape it. Then, the stylistics of professional music discourse are examined in terms of the given communicative situation on all levels of language. The research pays close attention to the mechanisms of metaphorization that are inherent in the professional music discourse and identify the most common metaphors and aspects of their usage. Finally, the project gives a profound understanding of the development of the new media language in the field of music journalism.