コンピュータから見たカントリーソングの酒

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This paper deals with how many drinking terms are used in country music lyrics and what they mean in various contexts. The computer helped this research to find out various drinking terms through 78,554 words of 485 modern country songs. The result is that country music uses three general terms for indicating alcoholic beverages: they are "drink," "booze," and "liquor." And specific names for alcohol are "beer,""wine,""whiskey,""gin,""margarita," and "martini." Alcoholic beverages are used in four different contexts of country lyrics. Those contexts are "escape from realities spiritual degeneration," "enjoyment," and "description of scene." Among those categories "description of scene" appears most frequently and "escape from realities" is the second favored category in which alcohol is used.
英米文化学会の論文
2003-03-31