ENGLISH AS A MEANS OF CONSTRUCTING GLOBAL AND LOCAL IDENTITIES IN RUSSIAN POPULAR MUSIC |
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| 2014 |
| scientific article | 81’42 | ||
| 189-193 | globalization, English language, borrowing, code-switching, Russian English, glocal identity, musical discourse |
| The article examines the role of English as a means of constructing identities in contemporary Russian musical dis- course. Various forms of interaction between Global English and Russian are analyzed, such as English borrowings, code-switching from Russian to English and the so called «Russian English». Research material includes song lyrics, musical journals and professional Internet-forums. Ethnographic interviews were conducted to support the results of discourse analyses. |
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