Bilingual Strategies and the Third Space of Culture in the Formation of Hybrid Identity (Based on Belgian Song Discourse)

Introduction. In the context of the modern turn from globalism to a multipolar world, traditional models of cultural identity are no longer sufficient to describe hybrid forms of belonging that arise at the intersection of global and local cultural flows. A relevant empirical field for the study of such identities is song discourse, which is a multifunctional communicative event combining verbal, melodic, visual and socio-cultural codes. Methodology and sources. The methodological basis of the research is the narrativedialogic concept of identity and the concept of the third space of culture by H. Bhabha. The combination of hermeneutical analysis and qualitative discourse analysis made it possible to integrate philosophical and sociolinguistic tools within the framework of the study. Results and discussion. Based on the empirical material of the translingual song discourse of Belgium (“La Brabançonne”, Jacques Brel, duet of Angèle with Dua Lipa, etc.), the analysis of linguistic and discursive markers of hybrid identity was carried out; these markers were interpreted within the framework of the concept of the third space and the narrative-dialogic approach, and the correlation of the categories cultural identity, hybrid identity, linguistic and cultural hybridity was determined. Conclusion. It is shown that the linguistic mechanisms of constructing a hybrid cultural identity in song discourse are arranged in a hierarchical system: from the integration of individual lexemes and precedent expressions through the interphrase switching of codes to the formation of hybrid structures that generate a third space of culture. The analysis of these mechanisms allows us to interpret them as material traces of the subject's liminal experience.

Authors: Lyubov S. Moskovchuk, Oleg N. Gusev

Direction: Philosophy

Keywords: cultural identity, hybrid identity, third space of culture, bilingualism, translingualism

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