Main description:

This book brings together selected revised papers representing a multidisciplinary approach to language, music, and gesture, as well as their interaction. Among the number of multidisciplinary and comparative studies of the structure and organization of language and music, the presented book broadens the scope with the inclusion of gesture problems in the analyzed spectrum. A unique feature of the presented collection is that the papers, compiled in one volume, allow readers to see similarities and differences in gesture as an element of non-verbal communication and gesture as the main element of dance. In addition to enhancing the analysis, the data on the perception and comprehension of speech, music, and dance in regard to both their functioning in a natural situation and their reflection in various forms of performing arts makes this collection extremely useful for those who are interested in human cognitive abilities and performing skills.

The book begins with a philosophical overview of recent neurophysiological studies reflecting the complexity of higher cognitive functions, which references the idea of the baroque style in art being neither linear nor stable. The following papers are allocated into 5 sections. The papers of the section "Language-Music-Gesture As Semiotic Systems" discuss the issues of symbolic and semiotic aspects of language, music, and gesture, including from the perspective of their notation. This is followed by the issues of "Language-Music-Gesture Onstage" and interaction within the idea of the "World as a Text." The papers of "Teaching Language and Music" present new teaching methods that take into account the interaction of all the cognitive systems examined. The papers of the last two sections focus on issues related primarily to language: The section "Verbalization Of Music And Gesture" considers the problem of describing musical text and non-verbal behavior with language, and papers in the final section "Emotions In Linguistics And Ai-Communication Systems" analyze the ways of expressing emotions in speech and the problems of organizing emotional communication with computer agents.

Contents:

PrefaceI. LANGUAGE-MUSIC-GESTURE AS SEMIOTIC SYSTEMS1. Nina Scherbak, Saint Petersburg State UniversityTheory of sign and cognitive abilities, interaction of musical and literary languages2. Konstantin V. Zenkin, Tchaikovsky Moscow State ConservatoryMusic sense and gesture3. Alexandra Krylova, Rachmaninov Rostov State ConservatoryAcousmatic objects in the space of multimedia installations4. Giula Baijan Shamilli, The State Institute for Art StudiesLanguage and Music in Aspect of a Subject-Predicate Construction: Hierarchical and Non-hierarchical Structures5. Tugral Oguzhan, Independent researcher, TurkeyOn The Syntax Of A Compound Maqam In Turkish Art Music: Yet, Another Look At Maximal Projections In Generative Grammar Studies In Music6. Anastasia Gundorina, Gnesins Russian Academy Of MusicMetaphor as a structural principle of modern musical notation
II. LANGUAGE-MUSIC-GESTURE ONSTAGE 1. Olga Manulkina, Saint Petersburg State UniversityReading Opera: Verbal vs Nonverbal in Opera Theatre at the Late 20th and Early 21st Centuries2. Sophie Benn, Case Western Reserve UniversityBy Any Other Name: Historiography and Phraseology in Dance and Music, 1820-18603. Elena Pogorelova, Saint Petersburg State UniversityA gesture and a word in a dance performance ("The Wedding" by Bronislava Nizhynskaya and "Orpheus and Eurydice" by Pina Bausch)4. Ekaterina Levina, Vaganova Ballet AcademyK.King's "Metapoiesis" as a form of intertext5. Ilia Kronchev, Saint Petersburg State UniversityLanguage of Body in Rebecca Horn's performances: the pattern of the gesture and its semiotics
III. VERBALIZATION OF MUSIC AND GESTURE1. Polina Eismont, Saint Petersburg State UniversityThe role of gestures in storytelling: static vs. dynamic2. Leonid V. Pakhomov, Elena V. Erofeeva, Tatyana E. Petrova, Perm State National Research University, Saint Petersburg State UniversityMetaphorical Space of Discourse: Modeling of a Vocal Metaphor Target-Domain3. Elena Chistova, Siberian Federal UniversityNon-verbal semiotics in dance narrative and simultaneous interpreting: a cognitive intersection4. Annamaria Minafra, Independent researcher, UKExploring gestures and body language in professional musicians during the self-reflection process on technical movement
IV. THE BEAT OF LANGUAGE1. Sofiya Ros, Utrecht UniversityWhen language has a beat: Senegalese drum language and linguistic theory2. Vera V. Evdokimova, Saint Petersburg State UniversityA comparative analysis of the long-term speech spectra in dialogues3. Tatiana Kachkovskaia, Saint Petersburg iState UniversityIntensity patterns of final and non-final IPs: a corpus-based study4. Ekaterina Zavodova, Vera Karpinskaya, Saint Petersburg State UniversityCross-modal interaction in visual tasks with rhythmical stimuli5. Joao Veloso, University of Porto, PortugalMetric and musical prominence in Portuguese folk verse6. T.V. Skulacheva, N.A. Slioussar, A.E. Kostyuk, A.A. Lipina, E.I. Latypov, V.M. Koroleva, V.V. Vinogradov Russian Language Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Saint Petersburg State University, Higher School of Economics, MoscowInformation processing in verse and prose: experimental study
V. EMOTIONS IN LINGUISTICS AND AI-COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS1. Artemiy Kotov, Nikita Arinkin, Alexander Filatov, Liudmila Zaidelman, Anna Zinina, National Research Center "Kurchatov Institute", Russian State University for the HumanitiesModel of Emotional Expressions for F-2 Companion Robot2. Eleonora Beier, University of California, DavisProsodic focus in speech directed toward human vs. voice-AI interlocutors3. Beatrice Szczepek Reed, King's College LondonThe musical elements of speech as a co-ordinating resource for conversation: the role of prosodic mirroring4. Valeriia Dolgaya, Elena Riekhakaynen, Evelina Kuznetsova, Varvara Nikolaeva, Saint Petersburg State UniversityCan adolescents recognize emotional state of their age-mates by speech?5. Pavel Skrelin, Uliana Kochetkova, Vera Evdokimova, Tatiana Chukaeva, Daria Novoselova, Saint Petersburg State UniversityCreating corpus of speech for the analysis of the acoustic cues of irony6. Anastassia Kolmogorova, Alexandre Kalinin, Anna Malikova, Siberian Federal UniversityThe part and the whole in emotional perception of text: two pathways for assessment of emotional dataset