Longacre and Chenoweth 1986

Longacre, Robert E., and Vida Chenoweth. 1986. "Discourse as music: The text as convergence of concerns." Word: Journal of the Linguistic Circle of New York. Second UTA Conference on Linguistics and the Humanities. Interest level: specialist.

Many features of text structures have their counterparts in musical structure. Some features of text structure may best be analyzed in terms of their musical analogies. Longacre discusses

• how text and music may be planned or unplanned
• how introductions may lead into the action line
• the interweaving of thematic or descriptive material with the story line
• the use of exposition-development-recapitulation form and of dialogue, and
• signals of discourse peak or musical climax.

Gives special attention to theme and variation structures in music and essays. Compares them to a holiday in search of a new, temporary identity, but with the essential element of the "return ticket" (resumption of permanent identity). Chenoweth discusses music as discourse in non-Western cultures.

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