Jan Stanislav Institute of Slavistics SAS
Topic
Parallels in Direct and Indirect Nominations in Linguistics and Musicology
PhD. program
Year of admission
2026
Name of the supervisor
doc. PaedDr. ThDr. Šimon Marinčák, PhD.
Contact:
Receiving school
Univerzita Konštantína Filozofa v Nitre
Annotation
The dissertation assumes the search and analysis of analogy at the level of signs and symbols in natural language and music. Language arose and was formed as a natural system of signs (including symbols) in order to fulfill basic functions, of which the communicative function is based on the usualization of the form of the word and its meaning as a symbol. A word is considered a sign or symbol in the sense of structuralist-oriented linguistics since the time of Ferdinand de Saussure. In addition to language as a natural system of symbols, artificially created systems of symbols (created by society) have arisen, and one of them is the system of musical signs and concepts fixed as nominations, i.e. words as symbols. In this sense, it is justified to consider the system of musical signs and concepts as a language and, in a figurative sense, to speak of the language of music. This basic analogy is behind other parallels that we find between linguistic and musical nomenclature having more or less the status of terms. The sound nature of language and music is also semantically reflected in phraseology and paremias.
The aim of the dissertation is to capture and describe in detail the above-mentioned parallels and their reflection in music theory or terminology. An analysis of the historical context of the emergence of basic concepts and their lexical representation is assumed. The oldest have their origin in Latin, they were established mainly in sacred art, and the Italian language played an important function in specific historical periods. The methodological basis of the work is anthropocentrically oriented cognitive linguistics and its latest direction - linguoculturology, into which the relationship language - man - culture is projected. The method of investigation is narrative-discursive analysis. The contribution of the work should be a partial processing of musical terminology and the discovery of socio-cultural factors motivating the emergence of some idioms from a given semantic field
The aim of the dissertation is to capture and describe in detail the above-mentioned parallels and their reflection in music theory or terminology. An analysis of the historical context of the emergence of basic concepts and their lexical representation is assumed. The oldest have their origin in Latin, they were established mainly in sacred art, and the Italian language played an important function in specific historical periods. The methodological basis of the work is anthropocentrically oriented cognitive linguistics and its latest direction - linguoculturology, into which the relationship language - man - culture is projected. The method of investigation is narrative-discursive analysis. The contribution of the work should be a partial processing of musical terminology and the discovery of socio-cultural factors motivating the emergence of some idioms from a given semantic field