PRAGMATICS OF CLASSICAL MUSIC MEMES

Abstract

The paper discusses the pragmatical aspects of memes related to classical music. In the introductory section, it deals with the key concepts of memes, internet memes, multimodality, pragmatics, internet pragmatics and speech acts, and gives an overview of previous and current research in the field. The central section of the paper starts with the description of the corpus used for the research. After that, the concept of classical music memes is defined and the memes are classified into types, on the basis of their structure and content. In the subsection that follows, each of the types is presented through examples and pragmatically analysed. The final section of the paper contains conclusions based on the research results.