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The Semantics of Chinese Music

Author : Adrian Tien
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
ISBN 13 : 9027268916
Total Pages : 303 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (272 download)

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Download or read book The Semantics of Chinese Music written by Adrian Tien and published by John Benjamins Publishing Company. This book was released on 2015-01-14 with total page 303 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Music is a widely enjoyed human experience. It is, therefore, natural that we have wanted to describe, document, analyse and, somehow, grasp it in language. This book surveys a representative selection of musical concepts in Chinese language, i.e. words that describe, or refer to, aspects of Chinese music. Important as these musical concepts are in the language, they have been in wide circulation since ancient times without being subjected to any serious semantic analysis. The current study is the first known attempt at analysing these Chinese musical concepts linguistically, adopting the Natural Semantic Metalanguage (NSM) approach to formulate semantically and cognitively rigorous explications. Readers will be able to better understand not only these musical concepts but also significant aspects of the Chinese culture which many of these musical concepts represent. This volume contributes to the fields of cognitive linguistics, semantics, music, musicology and Chinese studies, offering readers a fresh account of Chinese ways of thinking, not least Chinese ways of viewing or appreciating music. Ultimately, this study represents trailblazing research on the relationship between language, culture and cognition.

The Semantics of Chinese Classifiers and Linguistic Relativity

Author : Song Jiang
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351967304
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (519 download)

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Download or read book The Semantics of Chinese Classifiers and Linguistic Relativity written by Song Jiang and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-06-26 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Semantics of Chinese Classifiers and Linguistic Relativity focuses on the semantic structure of Chinese classifiers under the cognitive linguistics framework, and the implications thereof on linguistic relativity and language acquisition. It examines the semantic correlation between a given classifier and its associated nouns. Nouns in Chinese, which are assigned specific classifiers according to their selected characteristics, reflect the process of human categorization. The concrete categories formed by the relationship between nouns and classifiers may serve to explain the conceptual structure of the Chinese language and certain underlying aspects of culture and human cognition. Song Jiang is Assistant Professor of Chinese for the Department of East Asian Languages and Literatures at university of Hawai‘i at Mānoa.

Power, Beauty and Meaning

Author : Luciana Galliano
Publisher : Olschki
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 306 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Power, Beauty and Meaning written by Luciana Galliano and published by Olschki. This book was released on 2005 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Un'indagine centrata sulla ricostruzione del significato dell'esperienza musicale in Cina sia in ambito teorico che applicativo. Abbandonato il dubbio tentativo di sistematizzare le sfaccettature di una esperienza tanto complessa all'interno di una meta-teoria musicale, si è privilegiata l'individuazione di specifici "itinerari di senso" che testimoniano la varietà delle risposte cinesi agli interrogativi sul "significato" della musica.

An Anatomy of Chinese Offensive Words

Author : Adrian Tien
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3030634752
Total Pages : 243 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (36 download)

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Download or read book An Anatomy of Chinese Offensive Words written by Adrian Tien and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2021-05-26 with total page 243 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book offers a precise and rigorous analysis of the meanings of offensive words in Chinese. Adopting a semantic and cultural approach, the authors demonstrate how offensive words can and should be systematically researched, documented and accounted for as a valid aspect of any language. The book will be of interest to academics, practitioners and students of sociolinguistics, language and culture, linguistic taboo, Chinese studies and Chinese linguistics.

Chinese Music

Author : J. A. Van Aalst
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 102 pages
Book Rating : 4.M/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Chinese Music written by J. A. Van Aalst and published by . This book was released on 1884 with total page 102 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contains 9 pages of description of the Chinese Lute in French and 4 pages of a music score written in Chinese. Also includes two scores by Confucius translated from Chinese musical notation, with description in French.

Music and Consciousness 2

Author : Ruth Herbert
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0192526510
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (925 download)

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Download or read book Music and Consciousness 2 written by Ruth Herbert and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2019-04-11 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Consciousness has been described as one of the most mysterious things in the universe. Scientists, philosophers, and commentators from a whole range of disciplines can't seem to agree on what it is, generating a sizeable field of contemporary research known as consciousness studies. Following its forebear Music and Consciousness: Philosophical, Psychological and Cultural Perspectives (OUP, 2011), this volume argues that music can provide a valuable route to understanding consciousness, and also that consciousness opens up new perspectives for the study of music. It argues that consciousness extends beyond the brain, and is fundamentally related to selves engaged in the world, culture, and society. The book brings together an interdisciplinary line up of authors covering topics as wide ranging as cognitive psychology, neuroscience, psychoanalysis, philosophy and phenomenology, aesthetics, sociology, ethnography, and performance studies and musical styles from classic to rock, trance to Daoism, jazz to tabla, and deep listening to free improvisation. Music and Consciousness 2 will be fasinating reading for those studying or working in the field of musicology, those researching consciousness as well as cultural theorists, psychologists, and philosophers.

Music as Atmosphere

Author : Friedlind Riedel
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 0429631626
Total Pages : 305 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (296 download)

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Download or read book Music as Atmosphere written by Friedlind Riedel and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-11-25 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores the atmospheric dimensions of music and sound. With multidisciplinary insights from music studies, sound studies, philosophy and media studies, chapters investigate music and sound as shared environmental feelings. This book probes into cutting edge conceptual issues at the forefront of contemporary discussions on atmosphere, atmospherology and affect. It also extends the spatial and relational focus towards fundamentally temporal questions of performance, process, timbre, resonance and personhood. The capacity of atmospheric relations to imbue a situation with an ambient feeling and to modulate social collectives is highlighted, as well as auditory experience as a means of connecting with feelings. In addition to original research, the volume features a first translation of an important text by German phenomenologist Hermann Schmitz, and a debate on affect and atmosphere between the philosophers Jan Slaby and Brian Massumi. This novel contribution to the field of music research provides a strong theoretical framework, as well as vibrant case studies, which will be invaluable reading for scholars and students of music, sound, aesthetics, media, anthropology and contemporary philosophy.

The Pragmeme of Accommodation: The Case of Interaction around the Event of Death

Author : Vahid Parvaresh
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3319557599
Total Pages : 480 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (195 download)

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Download or read book The Pragmeme of Accommodation: The Case of Interaction around the Event of Death written by Vahid Parvaresh and published by Springer. This book was released on 2017-06-02 with total page 480 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume brings together a wide array of papers which explore, among other things, to what extent languages and cultures are variable with respect to the interactions around the event of death. Motivated by J. L. Mey’s idea of the pragmeme, a situated speech act, the volume has both theoretical and practical implications for scholars working in different fields of enquiry. As the papers in this volume reveal, despite the terminological differences between various disciplines, the interactions around the event of death serve to provide solace, not only to the dying, but also to the family and friends of the deceased, thus helping them to “accommodate” to the new state of affairs.

Ten Lectures on Natural Semantic MetaLanguage

Author : Cliff Goddard
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004357726
Total Pages : 373 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (43 download)

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Download or read book Ten Lectures on Natural Semantic MetaLanguage written by Cliff Goddard and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2018-03-20 with total page 373 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These lively lectures introduce the theory, practice and application of a versatile, rigorous and non Anglocentic approach to cross-linguistic semantics. Topics include semantic primes and molecules, emotions, evaluation, verbs and event structure, cultural key words and scripts, language teaching.

Chinese Lexical Semantics

Author : Donghong Ji
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3642363377
Total Pages : 838 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (423 download)

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Download or read book Chinese Lexical Semantics written by Donghong Ji and published by Springer. This book was released on 2013-02-15 with total page 838 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book constitutes carefully reviewed and revised selected papers from the 13th Chinese Lexical Semantics Workshop, CLSW 2012, held in Wuhan, China, in July 2012. The 67 full papers and 17 short papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 169 submissions. They are organized in topical sections named: applications on natural language processing; corpus linguistics; lexical computation; lexical resources; lexical semantics; new methods for lexical semantics; and other topics.

On The Meta-category Of Chinese Music Aesthetics

Author : Sai Yang
Publisher : World Scientific
ISBN 13 : 9811225214
Total Pages : 452 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (112 download)

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Download or read book On The Meta-category Of Chinese Music Aesthetics written by Sai Yang and published by World Scientific. This book was released on 2021-07-02 with total page 452 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book opens with the emergence and development of the discipline of aesthetics in western countries, specifically the history of Western Music Aesthetics, to study and delve into the development of Chinese Music Aesthetics. The book provides a clear timeline throughout the writing — from the history of Chinese Music Aesthetics, to the construction of a theoretical framework, and the intersections and conversations between Western and Chinese Music Aesthetics. This academic piece is fundamentally consistent with the developing field of Chinese philosophical and literary research.This book also discusses important music aesthetic categories of Confucianism, Taoism, Mohism, and metaphysics, and uses critical thinking to analyse the relationship between these categories and relevant schools of thought, reflecting the author's academic vision and thought process.

Studies in Ethnopragmatics, Cultural Semantics, and Intercultural Communication

Author : Kerry Mullan
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 9813299835
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (132 download)

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Download or read book Studies in Ethnopragmatics, Cultural Semantics, and Intercultural Communication written by Kerry Mullan and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2019-10-24 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is the first in a three-volume set that celebrates the career and achievements of Cliff Goddard, a pioneer of the Natural Semantic Metalanguage approach in linguistics. In addition, it explores ethnopragmatics and conversational humour, with a further focus on semantic analysis more broadly. Often considered the most fully developed, comprehensive and practical approach to cross-linguistic and cross-cultural semantics, Natural Semantic Metalanguage is based on evidence that there is a small core of basic, universal meanings (semantic primes) that can be expressed in all languages. It has been used for linguistic and cultural analysis in such diverse fields as semantics, cross-cultural communication, language teaching, humour studies and applied linguistics, and has reached far beyond the boundaries of linguistics into ethnopsychology, anthropology, history, political science, the medical humanities and ethics.

Tradition and Change in the Performance of Chinese Music

Author : Tsao Penyeh
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136651942
Total Pages : 100 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (366 download)

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Download or read book Tradition and Change in the Performance of Chinese Music written by Tsao Penyeh and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-12-19 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1998. As a cultural entity of over five thousand years of history, Chinese music is a multi-faced phenomenon consisting of diverse regional and transregional traditions. Two large categories of Chinese music can be distinguished: music(s) of the Han nationality and music(s) of the ethnic nationalities. The present volume brings together ten articles written largely by native scholars, with the general aim of presenting a dialogue about Chinese music from 'insider's' view-points.

Music in China

Author : Frederick Lau
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 218 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Music in China written by Frederick Lau and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2008 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Music in China is one of many case-study volumes that can be used along with Thinking Musically, the core book in the Global Music Series. Thinking Musically incorporates music from many diverse cultures and establishes the framework for exploring the practice of music around the world. It sets the stage for an array of case-study volumes, each of which focuses on a single area of the world. Each case study uses the contemporary musical situation as a point of departure, covering historical information and traditions as they relate to the present. Visit www.oup.com/us/globalmusic for a list of case studies in the Global Music Series. The website also includes instructional materials to accompany each study. Music in China offers a unique exploration of the rich, dynamic, and multifaceted Chinese musical landscape. In contrast with previous scholarship--which focused almost exclusively on the role of music in elite culture--this volume takes a balanced look at a variety of traditional and modern genres, including those performed among local and regional folk musicians, in academia, in the media, and on concert stages both inside and outside of China. Using the interrelated themes of identity, modernization, and ideology as a narrative framework, author Frederick Lau discusses the musical features of the selected genres, the processes through which they came into existence, and related socio-political issues. Lau draws on his own extensive fieldwork and performance experience in both mainland China and its diasporic communities to show how the ever-changing Chinese musical tradition takes on particular meanings in China, in overseas Chinese communities, and in diverse international settings. Enhanced by eyewitness accounts of local performances, interviews with key performers, vivid illustrations, and hands-on listening activities, Music in China provides an accessible and engaging introduction to Chinese music. It is packaged with an 80-minute audio CD containing examples of the music discussed in the book.

Minimal English for a Global World

Author : Cliff Goddard
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3319625128
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (196 download)

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Download or read book Minimal English for a Global World written by Cliff Goddard and published by Springer. This book was released on 2017-10-03 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book introduces a new tool for improving communication and promoting clearer thinking in a world where the use of Global English can create numerous comprehension and communication issues. Based on research findings from cross-linguistic semantics, it contains essays and studies by leading experts exploring the value and application of ‘Minimal English’ in various fields, including ethics, health, human rights discourse, education and international relations. In doing so, it provides informed guidelines and practical advice on how to communicate in clear and cross-translatable ways in Minimal English. This innovative edited collection will appeal to students and scholars of applied linguistics, language education and translation studies.

The Cultural Semantics of Address Practices

Author : Gian Marco Farese
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1498579280
Total Pages : 307 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (985 download)

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Download or read book The Cultural Semantics of Address Practices written by Gian Marco Farese and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2018-08-15 with total page 307 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents a contrastive analysis of various forms of address used in English and Italian from the perspective of cultural semantics, the branch of linguistics which investigates the relationship between meaning and culture in discourse. The objects of the analysis are the interactional meanings expressed by different forms of address in these two languages, which are compared adopting the methodology of the Natural Semantic Metalanguage. The forms analyzed include greetings, titles and opening and closing salutations used in letters and e-mails in the two languages. Noticeably, the book presents the first complete categorization of Italian titles used as forms of address ever made on the basis of precise semantic criteria. The analysis also investigates the different cultural values and assumptions underlying address practices in English and Italian, and emphasizes the risks of miscommunication caused by different address practices in intercultural interactions. Every chapter presents numerous examples taken from language corpora, contemporary English and Italian literature and personal e-mails and letters. The book encourages a new, innovative approach to the analysis of forms of address: it proposes a new analytical method for the analysis of forms of address which can be applied to the study of other languages systematically. In addition, the book emphasizes the role of culture in address practices and takes meaning as the basis for understanding the differences in use across languages and the difficulties in translating forms of address of different languages. Combining semantics, ethnopragmatics, intercultural communication and translation theory, this book is aimed at a very broad readership which includes not only scholars in linguistics, second-language learners and students of cross-cultural communication, but virtually anyone interested in Italian and English linguistics as well as in cultural semantics. The approach taken is interdisciplinary and brings together various fields in the social sciences: linguistics, anthropology, cross-cultural studies and sociology.

The Semantics of Chinese Classifiers and Linguistic Relativity

Author : Song Jiang
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1351967312
Total Pages : 230 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (519 download)

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Download or read book The Semantics of Chinese Classifiers and Linguistic Relativity written by Song Jiang and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2017-06-26 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Semantics of Chinese Classifiers and Linguistic Relativity focuses on the semantic structure of Chinese classifiers under the cognitive linguistics framework, and the implications thereof on linguistic relativity and language acquisition. It examines the semantic correlation between a given classifier and its associated nouns. Nouns in Chinese, which are assigned specific classifiers according to their selected characteristics, reflect the process of human categorization. The concrete categories formed by the relationship between nouns and classifiers may serve to explain the conceptual structure of the Chinese language and certain underlying aspects of culture and human cognition. Song Jiang is Assistant Professor of Chinese for the Department of East Asian Languages and Literatures at university of Hawai‘i at Mānoa.