Let’s Talk Music: A Corpus-Based Account of Musical Motion

Pérez-Sobrino, Paula; Julich, Nina

doi:10.1080/10926488.2014.948800

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“…On the descriptive side, this book characterizes the vocabulary of English sensory adjectives; how this vocabulary is composed and how it is used. With respect to describing the sensory vocabulary of languages, existing works have already looked at the language of color (e.g., Berlin & Kay, 1969), sound, and music (e.g., Barten, 1998;Pérez-Sobrino & Julich, 2014;Porcello, 2004), touch (e.g., Popova, 2005), temperature (e.g., Koptjevskaja-Tamm, 2015), pain (e.g., Lascaratou, 2007;Semino, 2010), taste and smell (e.g., Backhouse, 1994;Croijmans & Majid, 2016;Lee, 2015;Majid & Burenhult, 2014;Ronga, 2016). Few works have been published that compare two or more senses.…”

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“…The perspective of task demands also allows us to reconceptualize expert language, such as the language of sommeliers or the language of music critics. It has been noted that expert descriptions of sensory perceptions may show an increased frequency of source-based language (e.g., Croijmans & Majid, 2016) and metaphor (Barten, 1998;Caballero, 2007;Pérez-Sobrino & Julich, 2014;Porcello, 2004;Suárez Toste, 2007). This can now be seen as an adaptation of expert language to the frequency with which particular task demands arisenamely, the demand of communicating fine perceptual information in detail.…”

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“…First, metaphor is seen as not being confined to poetry and fanciful language use; instead it characterizes everyday language use. In fact, some researchers have estimated that up to 10% or up to 30% of words are used metaphorically, depending on the type of discourse analyzed (Pérez-Sobrino & Julich, 2014;Pragglejaz Group, 2007). The view that metaphor is not just for rhetorical embellishment existed before the advent of conceptual metaphor theory (e.g., Ortony, 1975), but Lakoff and Johnson's publication helped solidify this view.…”

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“…Perhaps as a result of their categorical nature, there is no work of which I am aware that has described speakers using metaphorical movement language within these systems, in contrast to the circle of fifths(Pérez-Sobrino & Julich, 2014).…”

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Chapter 1. Sensory linguistics 1.1. Introduction Humans live in a perceptual world. All of humanity's accomplishments, from agriculture to space travel, depend on us being able to interact with the world through seeing, feeling, hearing, tasting, and smelling. Everything we do, everything we feel, everything we know, is mediated through the senses. Because the senses are so important to us, it is not surprising that all languages have resources for talking about the content of sensory perception. Miller and Johnson-Laird (1976, p. 3) remind us that "word-percept associations are fundamental" to language. Rakova (2003, p. 34) says that we do not have words "just because it is nice for us to have them," but because they are "devices that connect us to the external world." In fact, without the ability to express perceptual content, language would be useless. "Sensory linguistics" is the study of how language relates to the senses. It addresses such fundamental questions as: How are sensory perceptions packaged into words? Which perceptual qualities are easier to talk about than others? How do languages differ in how perception is encoded? And how do words relate to the underlying perceptual systems in the brain? The time is ripe for bringing these questions and many others together. Research into the connection between language and perception has a long tradition in the language sciences. Among other things, researchers have looked at how many words there are for particular sensory modalities (e.g., Viberg, 1983), how frequently particular sensory perceptions are talked about (e.g., San

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“…In this way, conventional metaphors draw on elaborate mappings between 1 Indeed, recent work has found an especially high prevalence of metaphor in academic articles (17% metaphorical), compared to news stories (15%), fiction (11%), and conversation (7%)--possibly because of the abstractness and complexity of academic domains of study (Gibbs, 2015;Steen et al, 2010). In one study, for example, researchers found that 29% of words in academic discourse on music was metaphor-related (Pérez-Sobrino & Julich, 2014). disparate domains like CRIME IS A VIRUS and GOVERNMENT IS A VEHICLE.…”

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