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Author Julich-Warpakowski, Nina, author.

Title Motion metaphors in music criticism : an empirical investigation of their conceptual motivation and their metaphoricity / Nina Julich-Warpakowski.

Publication Info. Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Publishing Company, [2022]

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Description 1 online resource (xii, 247 pages) : illustrations.
Physical Medium polychrome
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Series Metaphor in language, cognition, and communication ; volume 10
Metaphor in language, cognition, and communication ; v. 10.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
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. The results show that while fundamental embodied conceptual metaphors like TIME IS MOTION certainly play a part in explaining why we speak of Western classical music as motion, it is the specific communicative setting of music criticism that determines the particular use of motion metaphors. Furthermore, the perceived metaphoricity of musical motion metaphors varies with participants' musical background: musicians perceive musical motion expressions as more literal compared to non-musicians, showing that there are individual differences in the perception of metaphoricity"-- Provided by publisher.
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Subject Metaphor in musical criticism.
Metaphor in musical criticism.
Movement, Aesthetics of.
Movement, Aesthetics of.
Other Form: Print version: Julich-Warpakowski, Nina. Motion metaphors in music criticism Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2022 9789027212719 (DLC) 2022037575
ISBN 9789027256942 electronic book
9027256942 electronic book
9789027212719 hardcover