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Linguistic Analysis of the Jananas Band's Lyrics
Botková, Anna ; Adam, Robert (advisor) ; Hirschová, Milada (referee)
This bachelor's thesis aims to analyze the lyrics of the music group Jananas mainly from a linguistic point of view. In the theoretical part of this thesis it clarifies the view of the researched language material - song lyrics. Music and speech are undoubtedly related. In the beginning, we will look at this relationship between music and language, but we will also present some findings that make music and speech completely different. We will also describe the relationship between poems and songs. The boundary between these genres is relatively thin, so we will try to define their differences. We will specify the inclusion of song lyrics in the sphere of communication, and we will also include these lyrics in the functional style. We will look at the songs partly from the point of view of musicology. We will define their musical genre and briefly summarize the history of the development of this genre in the Czech Republic. We will introduce the music group Jananas in more detail. In the practical part, selected lyrics from two albums released by the Jananas music group will be subjected to linguistic analysis. We will focus on the phonetic-phonological side, the morphological side, the lexicon, the syntactic side, and also on the textual construction of individual song lyrics. The lyrics will also...
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