Modality as a component of lyrical emphasis in American and Russian Pop-Music

Август 21, 2022

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Modality as a component of lyrical emphasis in American and Russian Pop-Music

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2. Objectives and goals of the study: · to determine the usage frequency of modals and auxiliaries
3. The concept of modality, which was used in relation to the logic of judgment by Aristotle
4. The modern linguistic concepts of modality are based on the theory proposed by the French linguist
5. 1. The relation that the speaker establishes between the content of the utterance and reality from
6. To express subjective modality, different languages have a number of lexical and grammatical means-first of all,
7. 1. The aletic modality (from the gr. aletheia – "truth") defines the content of the utterance
8. 2. Deontic modality (from gr. deon – "duty") characterizes the content of the statement from the
9. 3. Epistemic modality (from the gr. episteme – "knowledge") distinguishes the probable / improbable from the
10. 4. Optative modality denotes desirable / undesirable actions. The language markers of the optative modality include
11. Thus, modality is a complex multidimensional functional-semantic category that reflects the speaker's attitude to the content
12. 1.2.2 Means of expressing modality in English As noted above, linguists have different views on how
13. Grammatical means of expressing modality One of the special means of expressing modality – in particular,
14. Syntactic means of expressing modality Modality in English can also be expressed by syntactic means. First
15. BRITHNEY SPEARS American pop singer Britney Spears was born on December 2, 1981 in McComb, Mississippi.
16. SHAINA TWAIN Eileen Regina Edwards, now known as Shania Twain, was born on August 28, 1965
17. SHAKIRA ISABEL MEBARAK RIPOLL Shakira Isabel Merabak Ripoll was born on February 2, 1977 in Barranquilla,
18. Britney Spears
19. Shania Twain
20. Shakira
21. Polina GAGARINA Polina was born in 1987 in the family of a prominent doctor Sergei Gagarin
22. ELENA VAENGA Elena Khruleva, now known to everyone as Elena Vaenga, who took a pseudonym that
23. ZARA Zarifa Mgoyan Pashaeva was born in 1983. Her family comes from Armenia. The father of
24. Полина Гагарина
25. Елена Ваенга
26. Зара
27. Conclusion We do understand that the subtexts and lyrics for both American and Russian singers is
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Objectives and goals of the study:
· to determine the usage frequency

of modals and auxiliaries used in pop lyrics in the USA and Russia.
· to assess most widely used modals
· to evaluate correlation between the use of Modals in English and Russian Pop Lyrics

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The concept of modality, which was used in relation to the

logic of judgment by Aristotle and was further investigated in the works of I. Kant, later became used in linguistics. In linguistics, modality refers to the most essential, mandatory characteristics of a sentence and is interpreted as a category that expresses the relationship of an utterance with real reality.

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The modern linguistic concepts of modality are based on the theory

proposed by the French linguist Sh. Bally. In his opinion, "Modality is a mandatory, unavoidable quality of speech. The speaker cannot formalize and address the utterance without its modal qualification” (16) In "Linguistic encyclopedic dictionary" modality (from the Latin. Modus-measure, method) is considered as "a functional-semantic category that expresses different types of relation of the utterance to reality, as well as different types of subjective qualification of the message (17)

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1. The relation that the speaker establishes between the content of

the utterance and reality from the point of view of reality / unreality – objective modality; 2. The speaker's attitude to the content of the utterance is a subjective modality; Objective modality is a mandatory feature of any utterance and one of the categories that forms a predicative unit-a sentence. It is expressed in the language with the help of a special category of verb-mood (indicative, imperative, and subjunctive). The forms of the indicative mood refer the utterance to the category of real, while the subjunctive (conditional, desirable, incentive, ought) mood refers the utterance to the plan of the desired, required or necessary. (5)

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To express subjective modality, different languages have a number of lexical

and grammatical means-first of all, a set of modal verbs, but also other words. According to F. Palmer «any word expressing an assessment with the surrounding reality should be defined as a modal" (5) Subjective modality covers a number of assessments, on the basis of which scientists distinguish the following types of subjective modality

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1. The aletic modality (from the gr. aletheia – "truth") defines

the content of the utterance as possible / impossible. O. Romanova gives a wide spectrum of acetic modals (9)

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2. Deontic modality (from gr. deon – "duty") characterizes the content

of the statement from the point of view of necessity / permissiveness / prohibition of existing laws and moral norms. The language markers of deontic modality include, first of all, modal verbs with the meaning (6)

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3. Epistemic modality (from the gr. episteme – "knowledge") distinguishes the

probable / improbable from the point of view of the knowledge available to the speaker. In English, epistemic modality is expressed, for example, by using the modal verbs might-may – should – must-cannot to express an assumption with a greater or lesser degree of confidence. (6)

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4. Optative modality denotes desirable / undesirable actions. The language markers

of the optative modality include words with the meaning "desirable": it would not hurt, I would like, it would be nice, etc. (3)

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Thus, modality is a complex multidimensional functional-semantic category that reflects the

speaker's attitude to the content of the utterance and his assessment of the attitude to objective reality. The content of a statement can be considered as real / unreal, possible / impossible, probable / improbable, necessary, desirable, and so on.

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1.2.2 Means of expressing modality in English As noted above, linguists have

different views on how modality is expressed in language. In this paper, we adhere to the broadest approach, which consists in the fact that modality can be expressed by a complex of language means of different levels: grammatical, lexical, syntactic and compositional, as well as intonation means. The specific ways of expressing modality depend on the structure of the language. In this section, we will discuss in detail the ways of expressing modality that exist in the English language.

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Grammatical means of expressing modality One of the special means of expressing

modality – in particular, the main one in the case of objective modality – is the grammatical category of mood. It is defined as "a significant opposition of repeated verb forms expressing modal meanings in a grammatical way" The main means of expressing real objective modality are the temporal forms of verbs of the indicative mood. Unreal objectively modal meanings are expressed by the forms of the subjunctive mood of verbs. The English subjunctive mood is usually considered in a complex, although it has three varieties that differ in their typical constructions

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Syntactic means of expressing modality Modality in English can also be expressed

by syntactic means. First of all, these are various introductory words and constructions (phrases and sentences) that express the speaker's assessment of the content of the message. (10)

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BRITHNEY SPEARS American pop singer Britney Spears was born on December

2, 1981 in McComb, Mississippi. The artist spent her childhood in Kentwood, Louisiana. Mom, Lynn Spears-a teacher, Dad James-was a builder and a cook. Britney also has an older brother, Brian, and a younger sister, Jamie. While in school, the girl sang in the choir, and was fond of rhythmic gymnastics. Britney's musical career began in the show "The New Mickey Mouse Club". Year after year, she released albums and gained popularity. The huge popularity in the biography of Britney Spears came after the song "Baby One More Time". Her album was released in 1999, and was in the top 20 albums for 60 weeks. Britney's world tour kicked off after the release of her second album, «Oops! She played in several cameo roles, hosted the television show "Saturday Night". Initially, Britney dated Justin Timberlake for 4 years and broke off the relationship in 2001. In 2004, Spears married Kevin Federline, with whom she gave birth to two sons. In 2007, Spears ' biography included a divorce from Kevin Federline.

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SHAINA TWAIN Eileen Regina Edwards, now known as Shania Twain, was

born on August 28, 1965 in Windsor. Her mother, Sharon, and stepfather, Jerry Twain, were in the forestry trade. There were five children in the family - Shania was the second oldest. The young star was able to attract attention and, as a teenager, began to perform on radio and television. Her first album was a failure, but a meeting with the famous producer who worked with Def Leppard, AC/DC and Brian Adams, 6 Robert John "Matt" Langi, who soon became her husband, allowed Shania to go her own way in music and she immediately achieved success. Soon after that, a tragic event happened in the artist's family — her mother and stepfather died. The girl had to take care of her younger brothers and sister, which almost became the collapse of her career. But thanks to the contract with the Deerhurst Resort hotel, the artist was able to continue to make music, performing in the show, and not be separated from her family. Each of her next albums gained more momentum than the previous one. In the summer of 2010, Shania and her producer husband Robert John "Matt" Lang divorced. On January 1, 2011, Shania Twain married Swiss businessman Frederic Thibault.

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SHAKIRA ISABEL MEBARAK RIPOLL Shakira Isabel Merabak Ripoll was born on

February 2, 1977 in Barranquilla, Colombia. Her father owned a large jewelry store. In early childhood, Shakira showed the abilities of an artist, singer, musician, writer, ballerina and dancer. At the age of 8, Shakira has already written her first song - "Your dark glasses", dedicated to the death of one of her brothers. At the age of 14, with the release of her first album, the charming and talented Colombian found fame. In 1996, Shakira was named "Woman of the Year" and "Person of the Year" – she became the first Colombian woman to conquer overseas countries. In 1999, the singer received her first Grammy nomination for "Best Latin Rock / Alternative Album", and in 2001 released a recording of the live version of the songs "MTV Unplugged". This album made her popular in the United States, and the success was confirmed by the Grammy Award in the same year. Her singles conquered the American charts. In 2007, the singer moved even further, receiving together with Beyonce for the duet "Beautiful Liar" an MTV VMA award and a Grammy nomination. From that moment on, she began her constant collaborations with other pop stars-she sang with Annie Lennox, Steve Wonder and Usher. She had an affair first with Oswald Rees, and then with the son of the President of Argentina, Fernando de la Rua Antonio, but all of them did not last long. On the set of the video "Waka Waka", the girl met the defender of "Barcelona" Gerard Pique, whom she married.

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Britney Spears

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Shania Twain

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Shakira

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Polina GAGARINA
Polina was born in 1987 in the family of a

prominent doctor Sergei Gagarin and ballerina Ekaterina Muchkaeva. She spent almost all her childhood in Greece, sometimes coming to Russia due to certain circumstances. Along with general classes, she attended a music school and practiced singing since childhood. Later, she entered the State Music College of Pop and Jazz Arts. The victory in the contest of young performers was the start of her independent creative career. Since 2006, the singer has been actively touring. She collaborates with the company of Igor Krutoy, Konstantin Meladze, Irina Dubtsova, Ani Lorak, takes part in the show "The Voice", also in 2011, the singer takes part in the Ukrainian TV show "People's Star". In 2015, at the Eurovision Song Contest with the English-language song "Million Voices" Polina takes the second place. The singer was married for the first time to the famous theater and film actor Peter Kislov. However, their marriage did not last long. In 2014, Polina Gagarina married for the second time.

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ELENA VAENGA
Elena Khruleva, now known to everyone as Elena Vaenga,

who took a pseudonym that resembles the name of her favorite city and river, was born in January 1977 in the Murmansk region. Khruleva's mother, Irina Vasilyevna, was a chemist by training, and her father, Vladimir Borisovich – was an engineer. Already at the age of nine, Vaenga performed her own song at a music competition, and since the age of 12, she has been giving concerts and touring. After school, Lena decided to move to St. Petersburg. There, she had to finish another year of school in order to get a GCSE. After that, in 1994, Khruleva entered the prestigious Rimsky-Korsakov Music School for the piano department. But the real popularity came to Vaenga after the release of the album White Bird, which received Golden Gramophone awards. Her first husband was Ivan Matvienko. After the divorce Elena soon gave birth to a son from Roman Sadyrbayev, with whom she is married up till now.

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ZARA
Zarifa Mgoyan Pashaeva was born in 1983. Her family comes from

Armenia. The father of Zara – Pasha Mgoyan is a PhD in physics, her mother Nadi Mgoian is a housewife. Zarif attended secondary school №2 in the city of Otradnoye. In the early years, she collaborated with Oleg Kvasha. The most successful for the singer Zara were performances at the festivals «The Hopes of Siberia "(Omsk), "Smash Hits of the Year" (St. Petersburg), as well as at the Sochi competitions "Hopes of Europe" and "Voices-99". She played roles in the plays "Idiot", "Voices of a bygone age", "Heavenly Swallows". She signed a contract with the production center of Viktor Drobysh and collaborated with Dmitry Pevtsov. Zara's first husband was a prominent businessman, the son of the ex-governor of St. Petersburg Valentina Matvienko, Sergey Matvienko. In 2008, Zara remarried. This time her new husband was the Head of the Department of Health Sergey Ivanov.

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Полина Гагарина

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Елена Ваенга

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Зара

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Conclusion
We do understand that the subtexts and lyrics for both American

and Russian singers is a jont production of professional poets and producers such as Noel Nackerman and Martin Derbishire in the USA or Konstantin Meladze and Intars Busulis in Russia. However a lot of words were originally written by the singers themselves.
As a result of the study, we found that the setting of modal verbs in song lyrics is influenced by three factors:
* The size of a musical phrase;
* Accessibility of vocabulary perception by the audience;
* Contextual tasks of each individual piece of music;