'I watch your hands like butterflies landing': Embodied dynamicity in Nick Cave's similes
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| Názov: | 'I watch your hands like butterflies landing': Embodied dynamicity in Nick Cave's similes |
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| Autori: | Holm, Anne, Richardson-Owen, Esme |
| Zdroj: | Language and Literature. |
| Predmety: | cognitive grammar, corpus stylistics, embodiment, similative meaning, simile, song lyrics, verb phrases |
| Popis: | This article presents a corpus stylistic analysis of the embodiedness of Australian-born song writer Nick Cave's (b. 1957) song lyrics. More specifically, the article explores the use of verbs in Cave's similes and considers how such constructions, labelled dynamic similes, give rise to a sense of eventfulness anchored in embodiment. Through corpus methods, the prominence of verbs in Cave's similes is first investigated in contrast to two sub-corpora of the British National Corpus, BNC Fiction & Verse and BNC Newspapers. The comparison shows that Cave's similes are richer in this regard than the sub-corpora. Further, building on a semantic categorisation of the data, two salient types of simile are analysed more closely: similes containing verbs of movement and psychological processes. Applying insights on profiling verbs from Cognitive Grammar (Langacker, 2008), as well as the notion of eventfulness in lyric texts (H & uuml;hn, 2016), the article finds that the dynamicity of Cave's similes typically serves to convey the intensity of mental processes, even with verbs of movement, and is frequently reinforced through progressive verb forms and accompanying sensory lexis. The article additionally concludes that by evoking experiential similarities (Dancygier, 2022), Cave's similes often invite embodied engagement on the recipient's part. |
| Popis súboru: | electronic |
| Prístupová URL adresa: | https://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:lnu:diva-140804 https://doi.org/10.1177/09639470251357084 |
| Databáza: | SwePub |
Nájsť tento článok vo Web of Science | Abstrakt: | This article presents a corpus stylistic analysis of the embodiedness of Australian-born song writer Nick Cave's (b. 1957) song lyrics. More specifically, the article explores the use of verbs in Cave's similes and considers how such constructions, labelled dynamic similes, give rise to a sense of eventfulness anchored in embodiment. Through corpus methods, the prominence of verbs in Cave's similes is first investigated in contrast to two sub-corpora of the British National Corpus, BNC Fiction & Verse and BNC Newspapers. The comparison shows that Cave's similes are richer in this regard than the sub-corpora. Further, building on a semantic categorisation of the data, two salient types of simile are analysed more closely: similes containing verbs of movement and psychological processes. Applying insights on profiling verbs from Cognitive Grammar (Langacker, 2008), as well as the notion of eventfulness in lyric texts (H & uuml;hn, 2016), the article finds that the dynamicity of Cave's similes typically serves to convey the intensity of mental processes, even with verbs of movement, and is frequently reinforced through progressive verb forms and accompanying sensory lexis. The article additionally concludes that by evoking experiential similarities (Dancygier, 2022), Cave's similes often invite embodied engagement on the recipient's part. |
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| ISSN: | 09639470 14617293 |
| DOI: | 10.1177/09639470251357084 |