La musique fournit l’information pragmatique aux paroles d’une chanson
| Title in English | Music provides pragmatic information to the meaning of lyrics |
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| Year of publication | 2023 |
| Type | Appeared in Conference without Proceedings |
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| Description | The aim of the international conference From Words to Sentences was to examine the relationship between semantics and pragmatics from different angles, in particular by challenging the classical formal linguistic approach, which fundamentally limits the field of investigation of the meaning of statements. Thanks to its interdisciplinary orientation, which takes into account the component of meaning beyond the literal, it has brought together contributors from various fields, not just linguistic research, the main theme being the distinction between implicit and explicit meaning. My paper, which focused on the meaning that musical accompaniment adds to the meaning of song lyrics, was given as part of the Theoretical Approaches and Conceptual Boundaries session that opened the conference. The lecture focused on the different components of musical meaning and their influence on the interpretation of the text. My starting point was the hypothesis that music fulfils an elaborative function and contributes to understanding by activating cognitive schemas that organise perceptual experience into a coherent and intelligible whole. My aim was to enrich current knowledge of semantic processing by drawing on cognitive science and neurolinguistics on the one hand, and pragmatics and musicology on the other. |
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