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Textual Choices in Discourse: A view from cognitive linguisticsEdited by Barbara Dancygier, José Sanders and Lieven Vandelanotte
[Benjamins Current Topics 40] 2012
► pp. 137–155
Edited by Barbara Dancygier, José Sanders and Lieven Vandelanotte
[Benjamins Current Topics 40] 2012
► pp. 137–155
LIFE IS MUSIC
A case study of a novel metaphor and its use in discourse
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.
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McIntyre, Dan
2013. The year’s work in stylistics 2012. Language and Literature: International Journal of Stylistics 22:4 ► pp. 333 ff. 
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