Abstract
Abstract
Multimodal constructions which intertwine language and music are characteristic of the discourse of creative
encounters among musicians. This interactional linguistic study reports on one such construction: the ‘music-taking-predicate’
(MTP) construction. MTP constructions consist of a projective verbal predicate, and a stretch of sung or played musical expression
following it. Based on naturalistic video data of Hebrew-speaking musicians in rehearsals and production sessions, I show that
instances of this construction emerge as formulae for the achievement of several interactional tasks integral to the process of
joint music making.
Publisher
John Benjamins Publishing Company
Subject
Linguistics and Language,Philosophy,Language and Linguistics