PRECEDENT PHENOMENA FEATURES OF THE SOURCE DOMAIN “THE USSR” IN ENGLISH SONG DISCOURSE
The article deals with precedent phenomena features referring to the source domain “The USSR” in English song discourse. The research goal is to define types of precedent phenomena (a precedent text, a precedent name, a precedent situation, a precedent phrase) and cultural/historic events they refer to. The approach results help to lay out the specifics of the USSR source domain and point out the most frequently used precedent items found in the songs which are the Great Patriotic War and space race. To achieve the goal the following methods are used: a descriptive method, statistical and typological data processing, a classification method, discourse analyzing.