Humanities & Social Sciences 3 (2015 8) 484-488 ~ ~ ~ УДК 784.69:366.63 Communicative Aspect of Chinese Narrative Songs Research Natalia Y. Simonenko* Volgograd State Social Pedagogical University 27 Lenin Str., Volgograd, 400005, Russia Received 04.06.2014, received in revised form 02.07.2014, accepted 28.12.2014 Singing skill tends to be one of the main characteristics of Chinese people. <...> In spite of being a great part of the culture, Chinese narrative songs have not been the subject of extensive research, either in China or abroad. <...> We researched 73 songs of the period from 20th century to the beginning of 21st century, and it gave us the opportunity to see the changes in realities and values of Chinese society during this period of time. <...> The leading research method is narrative analysis, in the process of which we analyze the songs according to fi fteen variables. <...> The results of this work can be applied for the further research of Chinese narrative discourse and narrative songs in Chinese and other languages. <...> Introduction A song is a part of nearly every culture in the world, and especially of Chinese culture, which can be described as a singing culture. <...> The Chinese language is a tonal language in which a sentence sounds like a short song. <...> That is why it is no wonder that singing skill tends to be one of the main characteristics of Chinese people. <...> In spite of being a great part of the culture, Chinese narrative songs have not been the subject of extensive research, either in China or abroad. <...> And it infl uenced all the spheres of Chinese society, and music and songs as well. <...> Due to these facts we divided all the analyzed songs into 2 groups: group 1, songs before 1970, communicative aspect, homodiegetic, Natalia Y. Simonenko. <...> Methods The leading research method is narrative analysis. <...> In accord with scientifi c works of Russian and international scientists who researched narrative [G. Genette, 1966, 1969; C. LeviStrauss, 1958; M. Jahn, 2005; O. A. Leontovich , 2011] we analyze the songs according to fi fteen variables, such as: narrator, his gender, discourse type, characters, time and space, events, most frequently-used plotlines <...>