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Textual choices and discourse genres: Creating meaning through formEdited by Barbara Dancygier and José Sanders
[English Text Construction 3:2] 2010
► pp. 275–293
Edited by Barbara Dancygier and José Sanders
[English Text Construction 3:2] 2010
► pp. 275–293
LIFE IS MUSIC
A case study of a novel metaphor and its use in discourse
Following Blending Theory, this article 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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