‘Please could you stop the noise’: The grammar of multimodal meaning-making in Radiohead’s "Paranoid Android"
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Neary, ClaraAffiliation
University of ChesterPublication Date
2019-03-15
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This article uses Zbikowski’s (2002, 2012, 2017) theory of ‘musical grammar’ to analyse Radiohead’s song ‘Paranoid Android’ from their 1997 album OK Computer. Invoking the close structural and compositional parallels between language and music, Zbikowski’s approach appropriates some of the core elements of cognitive linguistics to provide a means of ‘translating’ music into meaning-bearing conceptual structures via the construction of ‘sonic analogs’, which are a type of conceptual construct formed when incoming perceptual information is compared to existing cognitive knowledge stored as image schemas. The result is an analysis of the interactions between the linguistic and aural constructions of a multimodal text that not only sheds new light on this text’s meaning-making devices but also endeavours to unlock the strategies through which such distinctive semiotic modes act and interact within texts to create meaning potential.Citation
Neary, C. (2019). "Please could you stop the noise": the grammar of multimodal meaning-making in Radiohead's "Paranoid Android". Language and Literature, 28(1), 41-60.Publisher
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Language and LiteratureAdditional Links
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/0963947019827073Type
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enISSN
0963-9470EISSN
1461-7293ae974a485f413a2113503eed53cd6c53
10.1177/0963947019827073
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