Syntax and music for interaction: ‘Music-taking-predicate’ constructions in Hebrew musician-to-musician discourse

Yuval Geva

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Abstract

Multimodal constructions which intertwine language and music are characteristic of the discourse of creative encounters among musicians. This interactional linguistic study reports on one such construction: the ‘music-taking-predicate’ (MTP) construction. MTP constructions consist of a projective verbal predicate, and a stretch of sung or played musical expression following it. Based on naturalistic video data of Hebrew-speaking musicians in rehearsals and production sessions, I show that instances of this construction emerge as formulae for the achievement of several interactional tasks integral to the process of joint music making.

Original languageEnglish
JournalPragmatics
DOIs
StatePublished - Sep 2023

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© 2023 International Pragmatics Association.

Keywords

  • CTP
  • Hebrew
  • interactional linguistics
  • multimodal syntax
  • multimodality
  • music

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Language and Linguistics
  • Philosophy
  • Linguistics and Language

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