Motion Metaphors in Music Criticism : An Empirical Investigation of Their Conceptual Motivation and Their Metaphoricity / Nina Julich-Warpakowski.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Julich-Warpakowski, Nina, author.

Series:

Metaphor in language, cognition, and communication ; Volume 10.

Metaphor in Language, Cognition, and Communication Series ; Volume 10

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Metaphor in musical criticism.

Movement, Aesthetics of.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (263 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam, Netherlands : John Benjamins Publishing Co., [2022]

Summary:

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.

Contents:

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.

Notes:

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Description based on print version record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Print version: Julich-Warpakowski, Nina Motion Metaphors in Music Criticism

ISBN:

9789027256942