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May 3, 2017 · This chapter argues that life is an opera is a cultural metaphor with a rich cultural schema, representing an important aspect of the conceptualization of life in Chinese culture, and...
- 1 Song Lyrics
- 2 Visual Arts
- 3 Summary
In this subsection, I cite and discuss the lyrics of seven songs, of which five have their images provided in Appendix. The Chinese texts are accompanied by their more literal English translations to their right. Of the seven songs to be discussed, three have the title 人生如戏 ‘Life Is an Opera’, three are titled 人生大舞台 ‘The Big Stage of Life’, and one...
In this subsection, I present some images of visual arts as multimodal evidence for the salience of the life is an opera metaphor in Chinese culture. It is worth noting at this point that the Chinese word 戏 xì ‘opera’, which originally refers to any variety of Chinese folk opera with Beijing opera as its prototype, has undergone meaning expansion, ...
In this section, I presented some cultural artefacts as multimodal evidence in support of the argument that the life is an opera metaphor is a central one in Chinese culture in contrast to, for instance, the life is a play metaphor in the West. More specifically, I presented first the lyrics of seven songs and then four images of Chinese calligraph...
- Ning Yu
- ningyu@psu.edu
- 2017
Aug 11, 2020 · This entry presents a cognitive linguistic view of figurative language, with a focus on conceptual metaphor theory (CMT), which distinguishes between conceptual and linguistic metaphors.
Oct 4, 2023 · Traditionally referred to as figures of speech or tropes, metaphorical language was for a long time viewed simply as deviant and creative language use for artistic and rhetorical purposes (for example, in literary and oratorical genres such as poetry and political speeches).
In modern linguistics, especially cognitive linguistics, metonymy (like metaphor) is considered as not just a rhetorical trope used for various stylistic purposes, but as a figure of thought (referred to as “conceptual metonymy”).
first opera, Jacopo Peri's Dafne of 1597. Which element of opera predominates-music or language? Opera, at its artful best, presents an amalgam of music, language, and production, the distribution of which is sometimes unequal. Sandra Corse, Rob-1274
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an opera's ability to express human feelings will always depend on the metaphors it formulates rather than on attempts to duplicate sounds. Berlioz makes a similar point in his essay on "The Limits of Mu-sic." In discussing musical imitation of physical reality, he lays down four conditions for its proper employment: first, that
