Bilingualism as a means of socio-political reflection in the texts of the “Irina Kairatovna” group

Abstract

The article is devoted to the study of the functions of bilingual speech in the rap discourse of the popular Kazakh group “Irina Kairatovna”. In particular, bilingual speech is considered as a means of socio-political reflection. The relevance of the work is due to the relentless interest of linguists to the problem of bilingualism in general and to social bilingualism in the context of globalization in particular. The scientific novelty consists in the authors' attempt to analyze the previously unexplored, but interesting material from the point of view of the theory of interethnic communication — the bilingual Kazakh rap discourse. The authors investigated 30 of the most popular texts of the Irina Kairatovna group for the use of artistic bilingualism. The study was conducted using the methods of content, linguoculturological and statistical analysis. The main result of the study is to identify the potential of bilingual speech as an artistic and communicative resource that serves as a means of socio-political reflection. The results of the research presented in the article can be used by teachers of literature when creating programs of special courses in multilingual and multicultural education,
as well as university teachers in teaching students and undergraduates of philological specialties.