| Abstract [eng] |
The present master’s thesis aims to present the conceptual metaphor and to overview how this analytical tool is used for researching verbal and musical texts as well as to reveal what conceptu-al metaphors structure the Lithuanian discourse about music. 26 music reviews in Lithuanian have been selected from four Lithuanian culture- and music-oriented newspapers and magazines as well as three news portals. The style of the researched reviews is journalistic, while the reviews themselves were published between 2010-2014. Such timeframe has been chosen for comparative purposes, as a similar period was researched for the bachelor's thesis in English. The reviews comprise a corpus of about 23,000 words. The main research methods have been the Conceptual Metaphor Theory (Lakoff, Johnson 1980/2003) and MIPVU (Metaphor Identification Procedure. Vrije University) (2019). During the research, 39 conceptual metaphors have been identified, consisting of 1,100 metaphor-related words, which have been determined by utilising MIPVU. The majority of the metaphor-related words stem from the MUSICAL MOTION metaphor (208 met-aphor-related words out of 1,100). 176 words signal that music is conceptualised in terms of properties characteristic to various objects, indicating the existence of the conceptual metaphor MUSIC IS OBJECT. MUSIC IS LINGUISTIC CREATION has 146 metaphor-related words and is the third most abundant one. Many cases of personification have been found: four such metaphors account for 129 metaphor-related words. Other conceptual metaphors of greater importance are MUSIC IS NATURE, MUSIC IS PAINTING, MUSIC IS TEXTILE, MUSIC IS CONTAINER. Several instances of conceptual metonymy have also been found. Comparing the English and Lithuanian discourses, one can see that despite the cultural differ-ences, space and time are universally important for the understanding of music, while language remains to have great influence too. Although the English reviews tend to conceptualise music in terms of non-performing arts (art, architecture, literature) due to their more visual nature, and the same can be seen in the Lithuanian ones, yet the latter ones also conceptualise music performance as theatre play. Both languages conceptualise intrinsic musical processes with the help of the metaphor MUSIC IS BUILDING/ARCHITECTURE, but Lithuanian uses MUSIC IS TEXTILE for the same purpose. |
