Enhancing Lyric Meaning: The Interplay of Language and Music in Song
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| Year of publication | 2024 |
| Type | Appeared in Conference without Proceedings |
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| Description | My presentation was part of Working Group 2, "Attitudinal Meaning in Prosody," which explored the cross-linguistic aspects of prosody and its connections to pragmatics and semantics. The session delved into how prosody conveys a speaker's attitude toward their message or listener, particularly through emotional states and their prosodic manifestations. In my talk i argued, that music acquires meaning by imitating the prosodic contour of people in a specific emotional states. By attending to those isomorphic imitations, listeners decode the conveyed meaning of musical elements. These psychoacoustic cues manifest consistent patterns across cultures, substantiating the universality of their recognition. I have also presented the ongoing experimental phase of my research which seeks to unveil how concepts adjust based on inferences drawn from communicative intentions embedded within musical cues. The feedback from the audience was highly positive, providing valuable insights and suggestions for my dissertation. |
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