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Record Nr.

UNINA9910915696603321

Autore

Julich-Warpakowski Nina

Titolo

Motion Metaphors in Music Criticism : An Empirical Investigation of Their Conceptual Motivation and Their Metaphoricity

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Amsterdam/Philadelphia : , : John Benjamins Publishing Company, , 2022

©2022

ISBN

9789027256942

9789027212719

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (263 pages)

Collana

Metaphor in Language, Cognition, and Communication ; ; v.10

Disciplina

780/.04

Soggetti

Metaphor in musical criticism

Movement, Aesthetics of

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

Introduction. Western classical music and metaphor -- The language of music criticism -- The conceptual motivation of musical motion -- Metaphoricity as a gradable phenomenon -- Metaphors in music criticism -- Key motion verbs in Western classical music criticism -- The metaphoricity of musical motion expressions -- Final discussion and conclusions.

Sommario/riassunto

The book explores (1) the motivation of motion expressions in Western classical music criticism in terms of conceptual metaphors (Lakoff & Johnson, 1980, 1999) in two corpus studies, and (2) their perceived degree of metaphoricity among musicians and non-musicians in a rating study.