Këngë dashurie në dy kohë
Love songs of two epochs

Summary/Abstract: Corpus linguistics and Critical Discourse Analysis (henceforth CDA) are being considered as two disciplines that may be matched together, to analyse various linguistic varieties. On one hand corpus is “A collection of naturally occurring language text, chosen to characterize a state or variety of a language” (Sinclair 1991), on the other hand, CDA considers every language variety as being “are historical and can therefore only be understood with reference to their context. In accordance with this CDA refers to such extralinguistic factors as culture, society, and ideology” (Wodak, Meyer 2002). The present paper aims to look into the traces of ideology in the texts of love songs, written and sang in two different epochs and two different social and political realities. For the collection of the data two corpora were built. A corpus of texts of love songs performed in “Festivali i këngës në RTSH” (Song festival on the Albanian State Television), and another one with post-communist love songs, performed in another festival that of “Festivali Kënga Magjike” (Festival of Magical Song). The statistical data coming from the corpora clearly reveal that although the love songs refer to the same reality of feelings, which is basically unchanging as it involves universal experiences, yet there love songs texts contain traces of the ideology of the time when they were performed. In the viewpoint of CDA discourse and ideology are tightly intertwined (Fowler et. al (1979), Van Dijk (1995) (1996), Hodge, Kress (1993) Wodak, Ludwig (1999) Chouliaraki, Fairclough (1999) etc.) and all the discourses are shaped in a way or another by ideology. This argument might suggest the deterministic position that “language shapes a person”, by offering him/her a certain way of categorising the reality, in this case, due to the effect of ideology. The reality of feelings as love, although is not an objective one, it is linguistically shaped differently in two different epochs and socio-political contexts through various cognitive schematas.

• Details
• Contents