Tiuremno-blatnaya lirika [SEC=PERSONAL]

[Subhash.Jaireth at GA.GOV.AU]

Hi John,

In response to your:

And while it may be more difficult to make a case for considering zhargon to be a cultural construct, there are questions to be asked about the processes by which zhargon entered the mainstream language at the beginning of the 1990s.

I may suggest that Bakhtin's analysis of Rabelais and the carnivalesque would be very useful. One of many purposes of such songs and languages is to reverse the prescribed order and power relations and normative concepts of good or bad, decent and indecent. Through zhargon the oral beginnings of language begins to reassert itself, creating fissures and slippages. It's main purpose is to generate laughter in it's Bakhtinian  understanding i.e. laughter which is not only satirical and negative but positive and affirmative.

I think in all cultures (Western/Eastern, I personally don't like these terms) the languages of camps, prisons, army barracks is full of zhargon and it wouldn't be hard to locate examples similar to Tiuremno-blatnaya lirika in Russian, that is there isn't anything very special or specific about Russian baltnaya lirika.

Subhash


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