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LIFE IS MUSIC
A case study of a novel metaphor and its use in discourse
- Author(s): Elżbieta Górska 1
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View Affiliations Hide AffiliationsAffiliations:1 Warsaw University
- Source: Textual Choices in Discourse , pp 137-155
- Publication Date July 2012
Following Blending Theory, this chapter analyses a novel metaphor LIFE IS MUSIC which formed a leitmotif of Daniel Barenboim’s BBC Reith Lectures of 2006. The main focus is on the means and techniques employed by Barenboim, and his use of “verbo-musical” metaphors in particular. Because it goes beyond verbo-pictorial modes of representation, the proposed study of verbo-musical metaphors in a dynamically evolving discourse constitutes a new contribution not only to studies of multimodal metaphor in actual language use, but also to debates on conceptual nature of metaphor, “(metaphorical) thinking for speaking”, and language and cognition.
- Affiliations: 1: Warsaw University
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