Linguistic Study On Lyrics Of Modern Mongolian Songs

For its distinctive Mongolian style and fashion of popular music, modern Mongolian song has not only been a love of the local people, but also the national people’s favorite kind of music. Such kind of songs with characteristics of the times and the ethnic style excels at its unique, beautiful melodies as well as the artistic lyrics. Language of these lyrics shows significant regional characteristics and ethnic style in its phonetics, vocabulary, grammar and language style. With the growing fondness of such music across the whole country, the creation of lyrics for Mongolian songs has developed profoundly, yet on the other hand, we found that systematic studies on lyrics are not deep and comprehensive enough. This paper tries to make a more comprehensive analysis on the phonetics, words and expressions, grammar and rhetoric of these lyrics, which makes a contribution on linguistic research.Combined with comparison and contrast, induction and counting, the author mainly employs theoretical analysis and case study to analyze and research on lyrics of Mongolian songs which are currently popular from linguistic level under the guidance of linguistic theory.Based on study we found that on phonetic level, Mongolian songs’ lyrics have harmonious rhyme and rhythm with rich padding syllables and repeated two-syllable words. On lexical level, words with distinctive Mongolian features are large in quantity. Despite the intrinsic linguistic features, some lyrics adopt various novel forms, such as extension of words’ meanings, abnormal collocation and juxtapositions of double words. In terms of grammar, the creation of the Mongolian songs’ lyrics are beyond some of the Chinese language laws, such as changes of parts of speech and varieties of sentence structures, which provides the audience a refreshing feast for their eyes and ears. In addition, the creation of Mongolian songs’ lyrics has utilized a variety of figures of speech, which endows the language of the lyrics with more artistic appeal. Overall, the lyrics are characterized by a rustic, hot and straightforward language style, which adds beauty and pathos in imagery. Mongolian songs’ lyrics which integrates modern linguistic skills not only inherits the excellent tradition of Mongolian folk songs, but also caters to the modern aesthetic taste.