The power of lyrics in music

• Rafael Bueno Rodríguez ^[1]
  1. [1] UAM-A
• Localización: Relingüística aplicada, Nº. 15, 2014
• Idioma: inglés
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  • Music, to some extent, has certain influence in the way we shape our thoughts. From the point of view of sociolinguistics, some language features can be observed and analyzed in the structure of lyrics to explain why music can become so popular and musicians are recognized worldwide due to the handling of words. Features of language such as code-switching, domain, bilingualism or language choice can be observed and allow us to state that lyrics in music are intended to reach specific speech communities and to create social links that can modify particular social contexts in specific epochs of time.