LINGUISTIC AND COGNITIVE MEANS OF EXPRESSION OF THE NATIONAL SYSTEM EDUCATION PROBLEMS IN THE FRENCH MODERN SLAM

Abstract

The article deals with the linguistic and cognitive research of the French modern slam according to the semantic and cognitive maxims in analyzing the fiction text. The material for the linguistic research is represented by the composition “Éducation nationale” interpreted by Grand Corps Malade who is one of the most famous representatives of slam in France. The most characterizing features of this music genre are its engagement and rendering the most critical social and politic problems by means of the brilliant author’s metaphors. The aim of our investigation is to find out the linguistic and cognitive mechanisms namely the key cognitive metaphors around which the main sense of the song text is developing. Due to the results of the research, the mainstream metaphor in the text is SYSTEM OF EDUCATION AS GAME IN CHESS which delimits the bureaucrats of the simple employees of the Education calling them by the names of the chess pieces: the bureaucrats are kings and rooks, the teachers are pawns. The idea of the depression of the National system of Education in France and the thesis of the decline in the success level of the students are expressed by the metaphor equation SUCCESS IS MYSTERY, and the future of the pupil from a provincial region is rendering by means of the metaphor structure FUTURE IS DEADLOCK. The grammatical negative structures also add to the song text the cognitive component and bring the meaning of absence or lack of something.