The Art Of Language In The Lyrics Of Current Pop Songs

Since 1980s, the tunes and lyrics of pop songs have been constantly innovated and are becoming an integral part of human spiritual and cultural life. The lyrics of pop songs, as a form of art, are well received by the public. Many lyrics, well worked out, have a profound intellectual underpinning and are in the pursuit of artistic innovation and aesthetic enjoyment.The paper, taken the lyrics of pop songs as a study object since 1980s, chooses theories based on pragmatics, adopts the rhetoric theory and style theory as the guidance, explores in a comprehensive way the lyrics of current pop songs in terms of word choices, figure of speech, manifestation of style, and tries to reflect the characteristics of the lyrics of current pop songs by facts description, and reveals the process, principle and laws in art of natural language.