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  • In a similar way to dramatic performances and plays, song lyrics establish a complex discourse structure whereby listeners are placed in a position to overhear ‘the pretence of a conversation constructed to convey the performer’s meaning’ (Nahajec 2019: 25; see also Short 1996: 169). In Taylor Swift’s songwriting, listeners are positioned not only to eavesdrop on the narratives presented but are also invited to conceptualise and enact particular roles and scenarios in the discourse. This paper offers a stylistic analysis of songwriting and narrative structure across Swift’s oeuvre to identify how disnarration strategies are used to build stories in her two sister albums written and produced during the Covid-19 pandemic, folklore (2020) and evermore (2020). Specifically, this study examines how disnarration characterises the albums’ narrators, establishes narrator-narratee relationships and invites listeners to adopt a participatory role in the meaning-making process. Through close analysis of four songs across the two albums, this paper builds on developing studies of the stylistics of songwriting (see West 2019) and argues that disnarration strategies foreground particular themes within the discourse, such as nostalgia, wistfulness and regret, and contribute to the fictionalisation and self-aware storytelling characteristic of these albums’ storyworlds.

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Author:Matthias MeilerORCiDGND
URN:urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-702087
DOI:https://doi.org/10.15462/ijll.v11i1.140
ISSN:2569-6491
Parent Title (German):Journal für Medienlinguistik = Journal for Media Linguistics : jfml
Publisher:Leibniz-Institut für deutsche Sprache
Place of publication:Mannheim
Document Type:Review
Language:English
Date of Publication (online):2024/02/19
Date of first Publication:2024/02/19
Publishing Institution:Universitätsbibliothek Johann Christian Senckenberg
Release Date:2024/02/21
Volume:6
Issue:1
Page Number:9
First Page:1
Last Page:9
HeBIS-PPN:516833294
Dewey Decimal Classification:4 Sprache / 43 Deutsch, germanische Sprachen allgemein / 430 Germanische Sprachen; Deutsch
Sammlungen:Linguistik
Zeitschriften / Jahresberichte:Journal für Medienlinguistik : jfml = Journal for media linguistics
Licence (German):License LogoCreative Commons - CC BY-SA - Namensnennung - Weitergabe unter gleichen Bedingungen 4.0 International