The Garden: blending in the semiotics of songs
-
Per Aage Brandt
and
Ulf Cronquist
Abstract
After giving some contextual information, we propose an analysis of music and meaning in the song “The Garden,” as performed by the rock group Einstürzende Neubauten in the official video from the 1996 release of the album Ende Neu. We present a semiotic blending model of the narrative content of the song and of its imagery, partly determined by the structure and character of the music. Finally, we add a view of the apocalyptic perspective of some comparable creations.
References
Benveniste, Émile. 1966. L’homme dans la langue. Problèmes de linguistique générale I. Paris: Gallimard.Search in Google Scholar
Brandt, Line. 2013. The communicative mind: A linguistic exploration of conceptual integration and meaning construction. Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars.Search in Google Scholar
Brandt, Per Aage. 2019. The music of meaning: Essays in cognitive semiotics. Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars.10.5040/9781350143333Search in Google Scholar
Brandt, Line & Per Aage Brandt. 2005. Making sense of a blend: A cognitive-semiotic approach to metaphor. Annual Review of Cognitive Linguistics 3. 216–249. https://doi.org/10.1075/arcl.3.12bra.Search in Google Scholar
Brandt, Per Aage & Ulf Cronquist. 2020. Blending in the poetics of songs: Leonard Cohen’s Hallelujah. In Per Aage Brandt, cognitive semiotics: Signs, mind, and meaning, 103–116. London: Bloomsbury.10.5040/9781350143333.ch-008Search in Google Scholar
Fauconnier, Gilles & Mark Turner. 2002. The way we think: Conceptual blending and the mind’s hidden complexities. New York: Basic.Search in Google Scholar
Rodríguez Morales, Jesús. 2020. The freewheelin’ Bob Dylan and Federico García Lorca: The connection. Academia Letters. https://www.academia.edu/44834876/_The_freewheelin_Bob_Dylan_and_Federico_Garc%C3%ADa_Lorca_The_connection.10.20935/AL33Search in Google Scholar
© 2022 Walter de Gruyter GmbH, Berlin/Boston
Articles in the same Issue
- Frontmatter
- Les enjeux sémiotiques de la médiation : le cas de la figure du pont Khadjou d’Ispahan
- Studying values about childhood using networked photography on Instagram
- The Garden: blending in the semiotics of songs
- Story versus discourse in film studies: a return to the theory of enunciation
- The rhetorical dimension of images: identity building and management on social networks
- The semiology of colors in scripture translation: Arabic-English
- Alternative model of the communication process: a theoretical proposal
- Semiotics in South Korea: history and research trends
- The role of natural disasters in the semiotic transformations of culture: the case of the volcanic eruptions of Mt. Merapi, Indonesia
- Peirce’s evolving interpretants
- Questionnement sur la dualité: Quelques éléments pour fonder une sémiotique du bouddhisme
- Multimodality in Hong Kong government posters from the 1950s–1980s: an appraisal analysis and the discursive construction of legitimation
Articles in the same Issue
- Frontmatter
- Les enjeux sémiotiques de la médiation : le cas de la figure du pont Khadjou d’Ispahan
- Studying values about childhood using networked photography on Instagram
- The Garden: blending in the semiotics of songs
- Story versus discourse in film studies: a return to the theory of enunciation
- The rhetorical dimension of images: identity building and management on social networks
- The semiology of colors in scripture translation: Arabic-English
- Alternative model of the communication process: a theoretical proposal
- Semiotics in South Korea: history and research trends
- The role of natural disasters in the semiotic transformations of culture: the case of the volcanic eruptions of Mt. Merapi, Indonesia
- Peirce’s evolving interpretants
- Questionnement sur la dualité: Quelques éléments pour fonder une sémiotique du bouddhisme
- Multimodality in Hong Kong government posters from the 1950s–1980s: an appraisal analysis and the discursive construction of legitimation
