Abstract
In this article, I focus on the specific language of the Hungarian rock/metal discourse community. With Simple Concordance Program I analyse the posts from the two most active Hungarian music themed blogs (Lángoló Gitárok and Rockstation), which were written in April 2016. My functional–cognitive pragmatics and corpus linguistics research focus on the occurrence of the music genre names, ‘metál’, ‘metal’, ‘rock’, ‘punk’, ‘-core’, ‘jazz’ and ‘blues’ and their subgenres (for example, ‘black metál’, ‘death metal’, ‘desert rock’ – ‘sivatagi rock’, ‘deathcore’). This range of naming has been motivated by the categorization and schematization processes of the interlocutors and the conventionality of the discourse community’s terminology. My main questions are as follows: (1) ‘Is there a linguistic difference between the Hungarian and the global rock/metal discourse communities in terms of music genres and subgenres?’ and (2) ‘Are the music-related identity practices similar in these two similar subcorpuses?’
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