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Kellye Tunks
Between the publication of Murphy in 1938 and this suite of short stories written in 1946, came the small matter of the Second World War. Beckett spent it in embattled France rather than in neutral Ireland. For some time he was involved in the French Resistance, doing enough to merit being awarded the Croix de Guerre and the Mdaille de la Rsistance after the war.
(The pattern of a self-obsessed man being interrupted, disturbed from his self-absorption by a woman recurs in most of the stories in More Pricks Than Kicks, and in Murphy where the solipsistic protagonist is also troubled by the attentions of a streetwalker, Celia. Men are useless solipsists until rescued by a practical woman is one way of interpreting this common narrative structure.)
Lulu-Anna gets pregnant. She strips and shows him her belly and breasts swelling. The protagonist realises he must leave. One night he hears the baby being born, the screams and the cries. He gets dressed quietly, exits the house, but wherever he goes he still hears the baby crying.
A handful of really obscure phrases aside, the prose is, by and large, much less racked and clotted than in the earlier books. That said, the majority of the text is still ornate, mock academic, falsely pedantic and orotund in tone.
One element of it is dressing up the crudest physical bodily functions in elaborately academic periphrasis, littered with learned references and classical quotations. (The great example of this in Western literature is The Life of Gargantua and Pantagruel (1530-1560) by Franois Rabelais, describing the gross adventures of the two giants of the title in a comically pedantic style. In English probably the greatest example is the experimental comic novel, Tristram Shandy, by Lawrence Sterne.)
Do You Love Me is a 1946 American Technicolor musical romance film directed by Gregory Ratoff and starring Maureen O'Hara, Dick Haymes and Reginald Gardiner .[4][5] The film also features band leader Harry James and his Orchestra. It was produced and distributed by 20th Century-Fox. Betty Grable makes a cameo at the end of the film. At the time Harry James was married to contracted Fox star Betty Grable.
Jimmy Hale, a successful singer, chases Katharine "Kitten" Hilliard, a prim music-school dean who transforms herself into a desirable, sophisticated lady after traveling to the big city. Trumpeter and bandleader Barry Clayton also pursues Katharine.[6]
Farmer's daughter Jane Budden (Myrna Loy) sells her entire pig herd and moves to Brooklyn to find a husband. On the way to the home of her cousin, Garnet Allison (Molly Lamont), Jane runs into Hiram Maxim (Don Ameche), an eccentric inventor who is her cousin's neighbor. Jane scandalizes local society by saying she will not marry for love; she merely wants a rich husband who can give her the life of ease and culture she has long dreamed of.
Amused by Jane's announcement, Hiram visits Jane and tells her she can forget about marrying him. Jane is attracted to Hiram, but angered at his effrontery. She is amused when one of Hiram's inventions turns out badly and Hiram is publicly humiliated. Jane goes to a dance, where Hiram makes negative comments on each of her suitors, especially rich real estate developer and attorney Josephus Ford (Richard Gaines). Jane agrees to marry Josephus. Hiram gate crashes Jane's engagement party, where Jane is dismayed to learn that Josephus wants her to sign a prenuptial agreement and believes Jane should be frugal, silent, and matronly. When Jane learns that Josephus has just invested in a pork-packing plant, she breaks her engagement, rushes to Hiram's home, and proposes to him herself.
Hiram and Jane marry. Even though Hiram's inventions are only marginally profitable, the couple is happy. Jane gives birth to a son, Percy (Bobby Driscoll), whom Hiram raises in an unusual, freestyle manner to encourage his creativity and confidence. With Jane's constant encouragement, Hiram finally begins inventing things which meet practical needs and bring in a sizable income. A local organization decides to honor Hiram for his inventions by asking him to sit for a portrait. Hiram refuses. Jane, pregnant with a second child, hires the eccentric artist Magel (Rhys Williams) to paint the portrait anyway. Shortly thereafter, Percy tries to be amusing by adorning his dog Skipper with a baby bonnet, which Jane had received as a gift for the expected new arrival. When Percy and his mother chase the dog to retrieve the bonnet, Jane moves a piece of furniture and jeopardizes her pregnancy. Her physician fears she may lose the baby and her life, and Percy feels extremely guilty, thinking he has caused his mother to nearly die. Jane does recover and gives birth to a healthy son. An ecstatic Hiram has the entire family sit for Magel and a portrait.
This paper is divided into four further sections. Section 2 reviews the literature regarding CMT and linguistic analyses of pop music lyrics; Section 3 describes the corpus under study and methodology; Section 4 describes the different perspectives offered by quantitative (including diachronic) and qualitative analyses; and, finally, Section 5 presents our conclusions.
Within CMT, conceptual metaphor (CM) is defined as a cognitive process of mapping between conceptual-semantic domains, such that certain properties or structures of a source domain (SD), which is more concrete, closer to experience or better understood by the speaker, are transferred to a target domain (TD) that is usually more abstract or intangible. Accordingly, the chief function of a CM is to facilitate understanding and communicative efficacy with regard to the TD. An example is the use of food expressions to represent ideas (1).
As can be observed, no previous study has investigated, within the framework of CMT, the overall conceptualisation of love in hit pop songs and how this conceptualization has evolved over time. Our research therefore provides an opportunity to advance in knowledge regarding what CMs reveal about this allegedly crucial component of the lyrics of the best-selling singles.
Given that our focus is on the public impact of lyrics, in our final list (see Appendix) the number one was replaced by the number two in four of the 71 songs in two circumstances: when the number one was an instrumental song and when the song was in a language that was not English (as meaning would not have been fully understood by most listeners). Next, the theme of these songs was established, and the songs not about love were eliminated, leaving us with a corpus of 52 songs. This categorization was carried out by one co-author and was verified by the second co-author to ensure accuracy and consistency.
Lastly, given the great amount of textual repetition in the pop song genre, the corpus was normalized: we eliminated song titles, repeated choruses, minor variations (basically phonetic additions that add no semantic content), repeated verses and verses consisting of onomatopoeias.[4] The resulting corpus consists of a total of 8,980 words.
Two annotators, experts in Conceptual Metaphor Theory (CMT), independently identified and classified all the metaphorical expressions (MEs) in the corpus, and inferred and formulated the corresponding conceptual metaphors (CMs). Initial agreement was 71.75% and complete consensus was attained after a number of discussion meetings.
To establish the meaning of the lexical units and apply the MIP, we chose Collins English Dictionary as the reference dictionary for three main reasons: its prestige, its online availability and, above all, the fact that it is corpus-based and so provides real usage examples. For doubtful or complex cases, we used the Oxford English Dictionary as a second reference.
Only CMs associated with love were sought and accounted for. The criterion used was to select CMs with a TD that was directly related to love (e.g. LOVE, THE OBJECT OF LOVE, INTIMATE SEXUAL BEHAVIOUR) or had love-related concepts as a subtype (e.g. EMOTION).
To identify CM domains, we compiled and systematically consulted a compendium of metaphors of love as detected by Kvecses (1990, 2014, Barcelona (1995) and Gatambuki (2014), and metaphors of love and emotions contained in the Master Metaphor List (Lakoff et al. 1991), a general-purpose repository. For the purposes of our analysis, the CMs identified in the above-mentioned studies were regarded as conventional CMs given that the experts posit that they are well-established. Accordingly, such conventional CMs were formulated using the same labels (SD and TD) as in the reference literature, whereas novel CMs were formulated using the same criteria as those used by the above-mentioned authors.
Thus, the metaphors that we label as conventional have been existing long before the compendia were compiled and still endure today. Note that it is important not to confuse novel CMs with new linguistic expressions of conventional metaphors; in our work, the latter are counted within the conventional metaphors.
To establish song themes according to different facets of the concept of romantic love, we used Oxford English Dictionary definitions for the headwords romance, heartbreak, sensuality and sex (Table 1). This categorization was used to assess if the diachronic distribution of conceptual figures was consistent with the general thematic distribution over time.
This study encompasses a period of 71 years, from 1946 to 2016. As noted above, of the 71 number ones, 52 are songs whose theme is love (73.23% of the total). Hence, the prevalence of this theme in the initial corpus is extraordinarily high. This distribution confirms the continuing predominance of the model established by the Tin Pan Alley song factory and the subsequent massive deployment of the record industry (Starr and Waterman 2003: 105, 199). While the trend has remained unchanged over the course of the 71 years covered by the study, nuances and evolution were evident, as shall be revealed, in the type of CM used to evoke love and the thematic subtypes.
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