ENGLISH SONG NAMES: PROTEST OR CALL FOR ACTION?
Journal: Theoretical and Applied Linguistics
Year: 2019

The article focuses upon some aspects of the impact of English song names resulting from secondary nomination from the names of narcotic substances on young subjects. A large number and variety of song names of different genres encouraged us to introduce a special term «songonyms». As the research material, the name of the song LSD (performed by the rock band Hawkwind) has been chosen. It is difficult to clearly assume what effect song names have on the listener: whether they call for any action