Pragmatic Considerations in Song Interpretation - Construal and Background Knowledge
Pragmatic Considerations in Song Interpretation - Construal and Background Knowledge
Author(s): Monika CichmińskaSubject(s): Language and Literature Studies, Foreign languages learning, Translation Studies
Published by: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Warmińsko-Mazurskiego w Olsztynie
Keywords: cognitive poetics; construal; idealized cognitive model (ICM); perspective; frame
Summary/Abstract: The aim of the present article is to show that such concepts from cognitive linguistics asaspects of construal, semantic frames and idealised cognitive models can be applied for theanalysis of rock song lyrics. The article describes the results of a survey in which respondentsinterpreted lyrics of a rock song and arrived at its different interpretations, often different from theone intended by the song writer. The author attempts to account for those different interpretations,relying on concepts from cognitive linguistics and cognitive poetics.
Journal: Acta Neophilologica
- Issue Year: 2007
- Issue No: IX
- Page Range: 42-52
- Page Count: 8
- Language: English