2010•Huazhong Normal University Journal of PostgraduatesRequires access

A Tentative Study of Cohesive Devices in English Pop Song Lyrics

Wang Jun-jun

Abstract

Pop music enjoys great popularity in people's life for they are efficient means to relax and inform. Pop song lyrics are indispensable part of pop music for its function of information loading. The present paper is intended to study the special genre of contemporary English pop song lyrics from the perspectives of the cohesive devices,namely the cohesive functions of reference,parallelism and repetition,theme and rheme,conjunction,and phonologic cohesion.

About this research paper

What this paper is about

Why it matters

A significance statement is not available in the OpenAlex record.

Key contribution

A contribution statement is not available in the OpenAlex record.

Method / approach

Method details are not available in the OpenAlex metadata.

Main findings

Findings are not separately available in the OpenAlex metadata.

Limitations

Limitations are not available in the OpenAlex metadata.

Applications

Application details are not available in the OpenAlex metadata.

Available abstract

Key concepts: Lyrics, Cohesion (chemistry), Popularity, Repetition (rhetorical device), Conjunction (astronomy), Linguistics, Theme (computing), Popular music