Linguistic Research On Popular Songs Since The Reform And Opening-up Policy

Popular song, which originated in English, refers to song that is wide-spread and popular in a period of time. Popular song appeared after industrial society, expressing ordinary people's feelings and psychological experience, using soft, air pop singing voice to sing, focusing on entertainment and commerce, and having voice and image as the carrier and the electronic media and Internet as the dissemination channel.â‘ If we regard dominating songs in dance hall in Shanghai around 1920s and 1930s as the start of Chinese popular music, pop music has a history of more than eighty years. However, it began to make substantial development after the reform and opening-up policy. With the political, economical and cultural development and the coming of globalization, Chinese popular music entered a fast-speed phase, particularly since 1980s, popular songs have becoming the most popular art form and some of them have been spreading through generations.Chinese Popular songs have witnessed a great journey since China's reform and opening up policy and entered its prime. Lyric, as an important component, has emerged as an independent literary form, reflecting people's language status, emotional changes, mental outlook, values, and aesthetic orientation and at the same time impacting on public's psychological temperament silently. The art form of pop music demonstrates more and more of its aesthetic value and social significance. More popularity brings about more influence, thus the creation of lyric pursues the standard language expression and ideological meaning in addition to its artistic creativity and aesthetic pleasure, with the purpose of truly combining entertainment and art to guide the public. This requires not only the artist's self-consciousness, but also the support of the theory.With the popular songs since 1979 as corpus and theories in linguistics, pragmatics, rhetoric, style as guidelines, this paper attempts to explore lyrics in depth and in a more systemic way from the angle of style, word selection and rhetoric and aims to expose the linguistic characteristics of modern lyrics, its language process of art, principles and laws, from which to propose linguistic theoretical system of popular songs.There are four chapters:Chapter I: Preface. Research issue, research status, research ideas and research approaches and the analysis of this research value.Chapter II: An overview of the development of pop music. Clarify developmental stages of Chinese popular songs, from budding , appearing, recovering and booming phase until to a diversified phase and put forward four characteristics, namely, its timely, public-oriented, musical and literary nature, all of which lay the foundation for the overall analysis of popular songs.Chapter III: Linguistic characteristics of popular songs. Explore the linguistic features of lyrics from phonetics, wording and grammar by using specific lyrics and focusing on the influence of Time on lyrics.Chapter IV: The rhetorical features of popular songs. Make research on a large number of lyrics to sum up the most popular and the most expressive means of rhetoric and focus on lyrics as the transmission of traditional poetry and rhetoric and its extending function.