Lecture/Demonstration on Metaphor, Blending and
Information In Music
with talking by Joseph Goguen & demonstration by
Ryoko Goguen
This is an abstract for an event at the Performing Arts Univeristy of Vienna,
on 28 March 2003:
Recent work in cognitive linguistics has shown that metaphors are grounded in
human experience, and in particular, in the human body, and that blending of
conceptual spaces, including those of metaphors, is a basic human cognitive
operation. This talk argues that the same considerations apply to music. Our
attempts to formalize such ideas are also sketched, including a structural
hierarchical theory of information, with the caveat that such formalizations
should be grounded in social as well as individual bodily reality.
The above content was blended with that of the related abstract, Qualia in Music.
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