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| Content Provider | Springer Nature Link |
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| Author | Roveda, Lyndia |
| Copyright Year | 2006 |
| Abstract | Charles de Brosses was a well-informed music amateur who wrote articles on this subject for Diderot and d’Alembert’s Encyclopédie. In his Traité de la formation méchanique des langues published in 1765, he introduced a series of musical metaphors that so far have not been fully appreciated in terms of their epistemological value. His objective in the Traité was to explain the origin of language by undertaking an empirical study of the vocal organs which is conditioned by the musical analogies developed in the anatomy treatises of that period. Despite warning against the use of analogical processes and metaphors in particular which have the effect of obstructing a clear rational approach to objects, C. de Brosses nevertheless resorts to these figures to illustrate a yet unknown reality. The metaphors of the monochord and the tablature are thus explicitly applied as a means of heuristic comparison. The significance of these analogies also extends beyond the purely anatomical framework to illustrate the way language develops in general. The musical metaphor of harmony in particular demonstrates de Brosses’ attempt to put into practice the controversial theories of his friend Jean-Philippe Rameau on the origin of consonances and dissonances. The pertinent musical analogies developed in de Brosses’ Traité represent therefore a remarkable testimony to the aesthetic and scientific theories during the Age of the Enlightenment. |
| Starting Page | 25 |
| Ending Page | 37 |
| Page Count | 13 |
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| ISSN | 00282677 |
| Journal | Neophilologus |
| Volume Number | 90 |
| Issue Number | 1 |
| e-ISSN | 15728668 |
| Language | English |
| Publisher | Kluwer Academic Publishers |
| Publisher Date | 2006-01-01 |
| Publisher Place | Dordrecht |
| Access Restriction | One Nation One Subscription (ONOS) |
| Subject Keyword | Comparative Linguistics Comparative Literature Historical Linguistics Philology Syntax |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Article |
| Subject | Linguistics and Language Literature and Literary Theory |
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