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Characteristics of lyrics language

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Pop songs are popular vocal music art and a means for people to express their feelings. From the past to the present, many classic songs have emerged in every era and period. A good song is elegant only in terms of lyrics. Because language is the core of vocal art expression and creation, and it is also the basis of singing, from the literary creation of lyrics to the composition of music to the performance of singing, it is always inseparable from the experience, feeling and performance of language. Since lyrics are a form of literature and art, we must not ignore their literariness, and must rely on effective means of expressing feelings-rhetoric.

We believe that rhetoric is an effective means to convey information and express ideas, an activity to coordinate interpersonal relationships and communicate feelings, or an aesthetic design and artistic application of a language. These all coincide with the requirements of the lyrics art for truth, goodness and beauty. Only with the help of appropriate rhetorical devices can the art of lyrics shine brilliantly! Only by exchanging ideas and transmitting information with lyrics can we be vivid and give people a deep impression and aesthetic feeling of language as much as possible.

First, various rhetorical devices.

Whether a song can "take the lead" depends not only on beautiful and melodious music, but also on whether the lyrics are "beautiful". The following rhetorical devices can enhance the musicality of language.

1. Rhyme The ancients paid attention to rhyme when writing poems and fu. Nowadays, some lyrics are beautiful and lively, and a very important aspect is to consciously use rhyming words at the end of the sentence. For example:

(1) "take a glass of wine in the morning and evening. I'm lonely. Do you have an intoxicating smile after the storm? The geese fly over the chrysanthemums, and the floor is full of fragrance. " (China Folk Songs)

2 "The heart is there, the dream is there, and there is true love between heaven and earth. Seeing success or failure, life is heroic, just starting all over again. " ("Start all over again")

3 "Love is just a word, I will only say it once, you know I will express it with actions, I will promise it with my whole life, and it is never too late to act." ("Love is just a word")

4 "The girl across the street looks over and the performance here is wonderful. Please don't pretend to ignore it. "

("The girl across the street looks over")

⑤ As long as you live better than me, nothing will be difficult until you are old.

("As long as you live better than me")

The syllables of the above lyrics are symmetrical and rhythmic, resulting in a harmonious state of phonology in the song.

2. Overlapping is also called "coincidence" or "compound words". Proper use of reduplicated words can highlight the meaning of words, strengthen the image description of things and increase the aesthetic feeling of music. For example:

(1) "The river bends to the south ... the moon bends late at night ... the sea is vast ..."

(Pearl of the Orient)

2 "Love makes rain, and there are many towers of smoke and rain." "Past scenes, sad scenes."

(episode of TV series "heavy rain")

3 "Exquisite birch trees, long blue sky and slight south wind." (Japanese song "Spring Day in the Northland")

4 "Small bamboo rafts are in the middle reaches of the river, walking on both sides of the towering green hills." (Episode of the movie "Sparkling Red Star")

⑤ "Go home often, go home ... talk to mom about life troubles and talk to dad about work." ("often go home")

The repeated use of "bend" vividly highlights the shape of things, and also expresses the author's love and attachment to Hong Kong. The repeated use of "scene" seems that the narrator has brought the audience into an unforgettable past; "Tingting" and "Youyou" create an infinite aesthetic feeling visually, showing the poetic feeling of northern spring; "Chatting" and "talking" make people feel kind and close the distance.

In jargon and writing, it is generally safer to use complex sentences, and it is more comfortable to use disyllabic words as the end of sentences. Liu Xie said in Wen Xin Diao Long: "Even words are easy to use, but strange words are difficult to use." However, the song "Prayer" appeared "Always called success." In this way, the monosyllabic word "zai" is used as the bottom sentence, and the last sentence of "going too far" is "you will hurt your back if you want to fly." The monosyllabic word "Bei" is also used as the bottom of the sentence.

3. Whole sentences and loose sentences, long sentences and short sentences

The momentum, strength and ups and downs of lyrics often depend on the choice and adjustment of sentence patterns in order to be effective.

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A group of sentences with the same or similar structure are called whole sentences; conversely, a group of sentences with uneven structure and staggered use are called scattered sentences.

The whole sentence is neat in form, harmonious in voice, full of momentum and clear in meaning For example:

(1) "the deeper the love, always inseparable; The more real it feels, the easier it is to see the scars. " (paper crane)

(2) "the wind, blowing without direction; Rain, tears to the sea. " ("Flower Scent")

3 "Seize every minute of your life and go all out to realize your dreams." (True Hero)

The structure of a casual sentence is different, and the sentence patterns used are also diverse, so the content it expresses is not as concentrated as that of a whole sentence, but it is scattered but not chaotic, and it is also flexible, easy to avoid monotony and can achieve vivid and touching results. For example:

1. "There are thousands of waters in Qian Shan. We walked by, every time we met, every time we laughed, it was engraved on each other. On sunny and happy days, we hold hands and want to say too much. " (same song)

2 "Flowers bloom quietly in the night when I suddenly miss you. Year after year, the wind and frost cover your smile, who can understand your lonely heart. " ("Know You")

Long sentences and short sentences also have their own rhetorical effects. The rhetorical effect of long sentences is thoughtful, precise, precise and meticulous. For example:

(1) "Find a beloved person you like to bid farewell to being single, and find a passionate and heartless person to scar me." ("Single Love Song")

(2) "Who is lonely but doesn't expect the partner in his dream, only when he lives alone can he know that love is beautiful and warm." ("I think I am the sea")

The rhetorical effect of short sentences is concise, lively and flexible. For example:

(1) "take a look at the world. The result is like a dream. Some people cry, some people laugh, some people win, some people lose, and the ending is different? " ("Don't cry, friend")

Four short sentences describe some people in society very vividly and concisely.

Another example is:

(2) "... your heart, I am the heaviest, joys and sorrows * * *, life and death together ..." ("Farewell My Concubine")

The use of short sentences strengthens the emotional tension and sadness, as if the heart is pressing hard and twitching, making it difficult to breathe.

There is also a popular tongue twister long sentence mode, in which a small rhythm is set in the big rhythm and a short sentence is included in the long sentence. Try boys and girls;

"Boys are the wind, boys are the rain, boys are careless/boys always show off when they see girls/boys want to please girls but make her angry/boys don't know what to do, they are always in a hurry ..."

This kind of sentence is more flexible in rhythm and more suitable for expressing the personality of modern boys.

4. Extraordinary collocation

"The collocation between words has its internal relations and laws. In addition to the principle of combination in syntactic structure, it is important to be restricted by semantic content and logical category. Such a special phenomenon in verbal communication, that is, the collocation between words conforms to grammatical rules, but it goes beyond the conventional semantic content and logical category between words. We call this phenomenon the abnormal collocation of words. " ⑶

"Temple, golden bell, setting sun, among weeds." (Spring) describes the most impressive bell in the dusk silence. The bell is "golden yellow" In the author's feeling, the bell was dyed golden by the sunset, and the bell shot down the sunset, which is impossible in itself. The visual image of the golden sunset and the auditory image of the bell are superimposed together, which makes the dusk feel three-dimensional and smooth.

1 "If you say that sincere word, the love you planted will be rewarded." ("Love Song of Turpan" ② "I lost my heart on the edge of friendship and love." (first love)

(3) "How many hopes are filled, how many sorrows are filled, like a stamp of years, constantly looking for old worries and new feelings." ("looking for")

4 "I once thought of such a night, you and I still know each other in the rain." (heartless rain, heartless you)

With you, I can taste the sweetness of silence. (eyes)

⑥ "When will the tenderness of rain shake the sleeping wound again?" (crossroads)

⑦ "I tore a page from my dream, and I don't know how to write it tomorrow." ("Tearing Night")

8 "Your smile weaves every miracle." ("Your smile")

Pet-name ruby Love is like flying a kite. Indulgent love will also scar the sky. " ("Too wronged")

Attending "The beard is full of stories, and the rustic voice is buried in laughter." ("Hometown Elder")

Harvest is a common life experience, which reflects the original knowledge circle of the subject, but "harvest" and "planted love" break through the knowledge circle of the routine, and that kind of love can be "planted" and "harvested".

"Lost" is lost, which can be compared to losing the right direction. Here, "loss" is used to state that "one heart" is an unusual collocation.

Hope and melancholy can't be faked, and old worries and new feelings can't be recited. How much hope, how much melancholy and carrying old worries and new feelings are all unusual combinations.

Generally speaking, we say "... clear" instead of "clear ..." The lyrics of "You and I are still clear in the rain" are unconventional.

"The sweetness of silence" is an extraordinary collocation. "Sweetness" has a taste, but it is perceived through taste, and "silence" is tasteless. The combination of "tasteless" and "tasteful" also combines feelings such as taste, and the receiver of the speech will naturally associate with the situation that the lover is relatively speechless.

The wound is sleeping. It seems that everything in the world can be branded with people's marks, and people's affection can also be passed on to everything. Unreal dreams can tear off a page like a diary; The adjective "wonderful" is nominal, and it is the real thing woven by "smile"; "Love" and "flying a kite", "beard" and "story", seemingly unreasonable collocation, have unexpected effects, making the words more vivid, poetic and unique. Variational rhetoric, such as this, is generally a kind of language art that the author injects thoughts and feelings into the feelings of the outside world, condenses them into psychological images, and finally shows them. Liang Qichao said: "The authority of art lies in grasping the emotion that passes in an instant so as to reproduce it at any time. It is to put the emotions of the artist's own personality into the emotions of others and occupy his inner position in a certain period of time. " (4) The unconventional expressions in the lyrics of popular songs can sometimes "occupy" the hearts of the audience, and the short strangeness will be followed by emotional * * *.

5. The use of modal particles

Modal words often appear in the lyrics of popular songs in the form of spoken language, which is full of life breath. For example:

1 "We broke up in just one minute." ("He must love you very much") "

(2) "Xiao Yun, get up slowly, please have a rest ..."

("treading the waves")

"Are you in a good mood now? Do you still have so many troubles? " ("Peace be with you")

(4) "Is it wrong to go or stay? (Tianya)

⑤ "Betrayal is considerate, or it is easier to escape." (sad Pacific)

Mood is related to emotional factors, such as emphasis or euphemism, reluctance or exaggeration, speculation or reminder, hesitation or dissatisfaction, and all kinds of moods are an expression of feelings. The use of modal particles not only strengthens the expression of feelings, but also plays the role of oral pause. Oral pause has a specific rhetorical function.

6. New terms and concepts

The most extensive groups that pop songs face are young people, who pursue fashion, have advanced ideas and their favorite personalized songs. You can get a glimpse of orcs just from the title of the song. You are cruel. Look at my seventy-two changes. Rats love rice, Semisugar doctrine. I'm not Huang Rong. It's not a crime for men to cry. You are poisonous, break up happily, and your eyes betray your heart ... Look at this.

With the development of the times, new things and new terms emerge one after another, which can be seen in popular songs.

1 "Eyes narrowed into a line ... sleep for a day if you want, ignore anyone, don't surf the Internet, and don't call back." (Persian cat)

② "There is no more pure white soul, and human beings have degenerated into orcs." (orc)

③ "The acceleration of silence is my step." (acceleration)

When "call back" and "online" enter the information society, the proper term "acceleration" in physics can also be used in lyrics. As for what "orcs" and "orcs" are, it is hard to understand.

Another phenomenon of popular songs is that many lyrics are mixed in English and Chinese, and the English part is often the climax part. For example:

(1) "Understand that everyone can replace the trust he once gave me. Seeing that I can fly, I fly proudly. Life has started, and I want that kind of excitement. " (Girl with Wings)

(2) "You are electricity and you are light. You are the only myth, I only love you, and you are my superstar.

I believe that you are still waiting there. The road of love is always full of blessings. I believe that you are still burying your love ... "("I believe ")

(4) "Hug you, oh my baby, look at me crying ..." ("Insist")

(5) "You are my sister and you are my baby" ("Sister")

6 "Come on, come on, you are the only one in my dream." (Beijingers are in new york)

⑦ "... it's on my way, on a full day. (Pu Shu's Colorful Days)

China's songs are occasionally mixed with an English sentence or two, which is understandable for China people to pursue individuality liberation, innovation and fashion. But why don't foreign songs bring a sentence or two in Chinese?

Above, we discussed the rhetorical features of the lyrics of popular songs from the perspective of negative rhetoric. Next, we will talk about the rhetorical characteristics of lyrics from the special category of positive rhetoric-rhetoric.

Second, the eclectic rhetorical format.

1. Repetition is the most frequently used figure of speech in lyrics, because repetition has the rhetorical effect of highlighting thoughts, emphasizing feelings and strengthening beats. In order to express some strong feelings, the lyrics deliberately repeat the same word, the same sentence or sentence group. For example:

(1) "come on, come on, meet 98. Come on, come on, meet in' 98. Meet in the green spring breeze, meet the eternal youth, meet the heart, meet the heart, year after year, no matter how close you are. " ("Meet 98")

2 "Looking forward to spring, summer, autumn and winter, looking forward to endless, there are plenty of fragrant grass in the sea."

(Deep Rain)

3 "The face of the moon is changing secretly (twice)." (Look at the Moon's Face)

4 "Go home often, go home and have a look." ("often go home")

Example ① ② is the repetition of words, highlighting the suffering and expectation of sincere invitation and expectation to meet. In order not to directly explain that we are going to break up, we changed the topic: Look at the moon, isn't it changing? Example 4: People who have been traveling all the year round have been repeatedly told to go home and see their parents who have worked hard for half their lives. In fact, their parents' spiritual needs far outweigh their material needs. The words such as "cherish", "don't send", "call", "messy", "whatever" and "never" at the end of each sentence in the lyrics of Farewell Station are repeated, which makes people cry.

Professor Ni Baoyuan's rhetoric: proper use of repetition can emphasize key points, highlight key points, express strong feelings, enhance the order and vividness of narration, and strengthen the sense of rhythm.

2. Duality is a unique figure of speech in Chinese. Formally, the syllables are neat and symmetrical, with a strong sense of rhythm; From the content point of view, it is concise and has strong generalization. Duality has distinct national characteristics and unique expressive force.

(1) "Full moon, a generation of dreams; The tide rises and falls, and it has been vicissitudes for a hundred years. " (The Story of Spring)

2 "Mud is all over my trouser legs, and sweat is all over my back." ("For whom")

3 "Travel all over Qian Shan." ("I really want to think about it")

4 "gallop, * * * enjoy the prosperity of the world; A glass of wine is a song that sings the joy in your heart. " ("When")

Example (1) expresses the incomparable joy of Hong Kong's return; (2) The two sentences of antithesis are neat, which makes the glorious image of flood fighters come to the fore; Through the same structure, Example 4 creates an imposing manner and expresses young people's heroic feelings.

3.Top Truth uses the word at the end of the last sentence as the beginning of the next sentence, so that the end is connected, and the next sentence is handed over. This metaphor is called the top truth [6]. The rhetoric of "truthfulness" is also commonly used in popular songs, which not only makes the whole song vivid, smooth and fresh in style, but also increases the interest of the song. For example:

(1) "There is wind at night, and there is me in the wind. What do I have? The cloud says with the wind, and the wind tells me, who can I tell? " ("You are the eternal pain in my chest")

(2) "Love hurts, pain makes you cry, and crying makes you tired ..." ("Notepad")

(3) "The mountain does not turn, the water turns, the cloud turns, the cloud turns, the wind turns, the wind does not turn, and the heart turns ..." ("Mountain does not turn")

(4) "In the distant night sky, there is a curved moon. Under the curved moon, there is a curved bridge ... "(Curved moon)

"Actually, I don't want to go. In fact, I want to stay with you, every spring, summer, autumn and winter. " ("I really don't want to leave")

⑥ "The rain is flying, it is my tears that fly in the sky, but the tears are drooping, and what hangs in the palm of your hand is your aftertaste."

(Flying Away)

⑦ When the sun came out, I climbed the hillside. When I climb the hillside, I want to sing to my sister. She laughs as soon as she hears folk songs. " ("Big Sedan")

The above songs, following the trend sentence by sentence, are promoted layer by layer, which not only expresses coherence, but also arouses the interest in using words.

4. Parallelism is an expressive figure of speech. The ancients said: "A text has numbers, so it is strong and wide." Is the role of parallelism. In popular songs, parallelism and lyricism are also often used to express feelings incisively and vividly.

(1) "When you hold my hand tightly ... when you look into my eyes deeply ... when you set foot on the starting station ..." ("Starting Station")

(2) "When the sun stops rising, when the river stops flowing, when time stops, day and night are divided, and everything on the ground becomes nothing ..." ("when")

(3) "in addition to the truth, what can I give you; What can I love you except kindness? What can I keep except courage? " (theme song of TV series "Heroes Without Regret")

4 "Who married you who was sentimental, who comforted you who cried, who rolled up your long hair and who made you a wedding dress?" (You at the same table)

⑤ "Sixteen-year-old secrets are full of heavy schoolbags, 16-year-old diaries are full of long thoughts, 16-year-old eyes are full of green melodies, 16-year-old brains are full of dreamy troubles, 16-year-old memories never age, and 16-year-old sun shines in the future." (Sixteen-year-old Flower Season)

⑥ "This is the call of the soul, this is the dedication of love, this is the spring breeze of the world, and this is the source of life."

(dedication of love)

The structure and tone of the above parallelism sentences are consistent, which not only strengthens the rhythm of the lyrics, but also deepens the feelings of the songs.

5. Metonymy pays attention to the relevance of things, that is, it skillfully forms a linguistic artistic name change by using various relationships between objective things. Such a name change can attract people's association and make the expression receive outstanding images, distinctive features and concrete and vivid effects.

"Five-star red flag, you are my pride. Five-star red flag, I am proud of you. " ("Red Flag Fluttering")

Lonely sandbars are cold.

hope

10 thousand reasons

light

that night

Sudden self

short message

Don't be a man in the next life.

Hair like snow.

two butterflies

Enjoy yourself.

Steal the sky and change the sun-commit a huge scam.

Spring in the north

variation

Who do you love?

For whom

Beautiful myth

For whom

I don't regret

a wolf in sheep's clothing

You are my rose.

Ao Bao Xiang hui

too much

Beautiful myth

Meet you through time and space

blue-gray

Don't want to grow up

Don't hurt me again.

Fly higher

Go straight north.

fight

Worldly desires ―― All kinds of human emotions and desires.

Come back, my love

Les Fleurs

Qinghai-Tibet Plateau

Evolutionary theory

Perfume Lily

be in a dilemma

kiss sb good-bye

Coral Sea

See you again.

Langaishang sheep

Huo Yuanjia

I love Zhou Xingxing.

Will you love me without money?

be greedy of love

Dugu east road

Brother-in-law Furong

my love

camel bell

birthday gift

Don't let me get drunk alone.

Lost love

notes

Have to love

Loyalty to the country-patriotism

Opera highlights

camel bell

I love you the most and hate you the most.

Waiting at the performance bar at two in the morning.

Red River Valley

Preserved root

Oriental businessman

A cluster of plum blossoms

The ambition of teenagers is not to worry.

poplar

Walk past the coffee house

The Yangtze River is rolling eastward.

really miss you

Impulse punishment

Never say goodbye

Tears of dancers

Christmas Eve

Fox-a seductive woman

Ningxia

Late love

Pingju

burden

first love

without protest

Swish.

Sing alone

Has been very quiet

If you fall in love with my changes

mother

Can I hug you?

Forget how to cry

Attachment has a dream

He still doesn't understand.

z x a r

The heart is unguarded.

Once heartache

Qian Qian Geiger

under a spell

See cooking fumes.

Rongshuxia

Northland spring

Rongshuxia

Military green flowers

First love in the world

There are no tears in Moscow

Love in winter

to tell the truth

lie

Plateau red

pray

Aurora

Moonlight shines on the West Temple.

Why can't people who love each other be together?

Both husband and wife have gone home.

Three sets of cars

Wandering songs

I love you a thousand times in my life.

Heart Rain

Yearning for the Condor

rescue

What should I leave you?

Even if I were Stephen Chow.

Pretty Hurts

nocturne

love

Pearl of the Orient

love

Borrow from heaven for another 500 years

the grandma's penghu bay

Honey, don't leave me.

Same song.

Kiss sb goodbye

the Kingdom of Wei（220-265 A.D）

What a small world.

Preserved root

All the old songs here are dying classics except the new ones.