List of tables
Table 1.1Number of text files and word tokens in the music criticism corpus
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Table 3.1Correspondences of the love is a journey conceptual metaphor
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Table 3.2Conceptual metaphors for time
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Table 5.1Metaphor frequency in the music criticism sample
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Table 5.2Metaphor frequency in the music criticism sample and the BNC-Baby
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Table 5.3Metaphor frequency in the music criticism sample across register
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Table 5.4Frequency of metaphor types across register
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Table 5.5Frequency of selected music-theoretic terms
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Table 5.6Source domains for music in the music criticism sample
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Table 5.7Metaphoric spaces for different target domain aspects of music
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Table 5.8Conceptual motivations for motion expressions
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Table 5.9Potential conceptual motivations for musical motion expression
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Table 5.10Conceptual metaphor basis for musico-temporal motion mappings
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Table 5.11The sonata form is a path metaphor
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Table 6.1Motion verbs in temporal motion expressions
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Table 6.2Path and manner motion verbs for temporal motion in the BNC and COHA
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Table 6.3The most frequent motion verb lemmas in the music criticism corpus
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Table 6.4Frequency distribution of the lemma ascend
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Table 6.5Key motion verbs in the music criticism corpus
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Table 6.6Type and token frequency of manner and path verbs in both corpora
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Table 6.7Temporal motion verbs that are negative keywords in the music criticism corpus
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Table 6.8Motion verbs selected for the concordance analysis
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Table 7.1Distribution of highest level of education among all 83 participants
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Table 7.2Degree of knowledge of (classical) music among participants (
N = 82)
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Table 7.3Thresholds of an ordinal logistic regression model
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Table 7.4Results of the regression analysis for the literalness ratings
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Table 7.5Number of participants in relation to
edu and
music.edu
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Table 7.6Results of the regression analysis for the actual motion ratings
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