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In:Motivation in Language: A cognitive perspective
Edited by Grzegorz Drożdż and Barbara Taraszka-Drożdż
[Human Cognitive Processing 83] 2027
► pp. 255–288

Chapter 11
Motivation of painting conceptualizations in Polish discourse on music

 | University of Silesia in Katowice
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Abstract
Music discourse is a complex form of discourse, largely due to its markedly metaphorical character. This chapter focuses on one recurrent type of such figurative language: the conceptualizations from the painting domain used to describe diverse facets in the musical domain. The study is corpus-assisted and draws on texts from websites addressed to musicians and others from the broadly defined music industry. Grounded in cognitive linguistics, the study aims to reconstruct the major types of painting-based conceptualizations to account for these people’s motivation to use that language. The analysis shows that these conceptualizations are shaped by a range of diverse motivational factors, including conceptual-pragmatic, as well as perceptual, embodied, affective, cultural, and community-specific communicative factors.
Article outline
  • 1.Introduction
  • 2.Theoretical and methodological background
    • 2.1The theoretical framework
    • 2.2Research questions and methodology
  • 3.An analysis of painting conceptualizations
    • 3.1Preliminary quantitative findings
    • 3.2Types of painting conceptualizations in music discourse
      • 3.2.1The creator of music
      • 3.2.2The music creator’s toolkit
      • 3.2.3Musical material
      • 3.2.4The music-creation process
      • 3.2.5The musical work and its reception
    • 3.3Normative and argumentative functions of painting metaphors
  • 4.Observations and discussion
  • 5.Conclusion
  • Note
  • References
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