Associative series as a means of expressing aesthetic assessment in music journalism

Section: Media Language

The article presents a study of the interpretation of the meaning of a musical work through associative series in a media text. It analyses media texts published in Russian online media between 2020 and 2023 and containing an assessment of musical creativity. The aesthetics of the language of media texts about music influences the audience’s perception of the material, and the associative series based on various expressive language means becomes a significant tool of expressing aesthetic assessment in music journalism. The main research methods used are discourse analysis and related linguistic analysis, in addition to general scientific methods. The article analyzes publications devoted to various musical trends, such as pop music, rock music, classical music. In the context of digitalization and the constant flow of new artist names and new musical compositions, an important function of a music journalist is to play the role of navigator in the field of the music industry, while staying true to the importance of the aesthetics of the language of media texts about music. Associative series, figurative aesthetic assessments contribute to greater expressiveness of the text, performing an attractive function and conveying to the audience those meanings that are difficult to express concretely when describing musical art.

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To cite this article: Gruzdeva M. M. (2024) Assotsiativnyy ryad kak sredstvo vyrazheniya esteticheskoy otsenki v muzykal'noy zhurnalistike [Associative Series as a Means of Expressing Aesthetic Assessment in Music Journalism]. Vestn. Mosk. unta. Ser. 10: Zhurnalistika 1: 49–69. DOI: 10.30547/vestnik.journ.1.2024.4969