Features Of "china Style" Songs Lyrics In Expression And Cultural Content

As an art of language, the lyrics of popular songs not only play an important role in pop music, but also reflect and lead the trend of the development of language in some certain degree. As a representative of contemporary pop music, "Chinese Style" songs have caused widespread concern in society. What's more, a number of related academic treatises have appeared in academic area. However, the discussion of "Chinese Style" is mainly done in the literature. People appreciate them partially through the ways of text analysis and comparison, lacking of a deep, systematic study to its characteristic and essence. What are "Chinese style" songs? Which language features do "Chinese style" songs have? Few scholars are able to give an accurate definition. This paper attempt to explore its cultural origin and cultural connotations by comparing the "Chinese Style" lyrics language features comprehensively. Thus, we can grope the situation and the trend of development of contemporary language life.First, the introduction of this article describes what "Chinese style" songs are and how the society has defined it so far; then introduces the study in this paper-unique "China style" lyrics and the situation of academic research and significance of "Chinese Style" songs.Then, this paper obtains several major features of "China Style" songs'lyrics in expression by comparing some examples of "Chinese style" songs, contemporary pop songs, poems, classic lyrics; then analyses "Chinese Style" songs through a typical example. Next, from the lyrics which reference the traditional, classical Chinese culture, the compatibility of contemporary multi-cultural, extraordinary use of modern Chinese, this paper further explores the form of language features of the "Chinese Style" lyrics. Last, we come to a conclusion about the nature and characteristics of the "Chinese Style" songs and give definitions to "Chinese style".The next section is an analysis of cultural content of "Chinese style" songs. First, this paper introduces the two major themes of the "Chinese style" songs-nostalgia and love; and then analyzes the expression of "Chinese Style" songs to contemporary cultural conflict. Last, this paper discusses and analyzes the cultural roots of "Chinese Style" songs and its future direction. The conclusion part is the review and summary of the overall and main conclusions of the paper.