Intelligible Pitch: A Shared Topos in Mid-Twentieth-Century Ethnomusicology and Anthropological Linguistics
Intelligible Pitch: A Shared Topos in Mid-Twentieth-Century Ethnomusicology and Anthropological Linguistics
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可理解的音高：二十世纪中叶民族音乐学和人类学语言学的共同主题
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2021
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Judith R. H. Kaplan
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Judith R. H. Kaplan
本文着眼于20世纪中叶民族音乐学和人类学语言学之间的交流，探讨了语音交际中的音高变化研究所带来的挑战和特殊见解。它调查了这一时期可供研究人员使用的相互关联的材料和概念资源，描述了为进一步分析声音而进行的一些尝试，并解决了声调语言中歌曲的关键难题。研究人员在多大程度上被音乐和语言现象之间的实质性重叠所强迫，以及他们在多大程度上寻求将模型从一个领域类比到另一个领域？追问这个问题就会发现，声音落在不同的研究方向之间，这些方向并不直接符合“科学”和“人文”。在方法论上，它受制于各种形式主义和语境方法；在本体论上，它被招募到固定的和自由的声音生产的连续领域。这些观察，以及对学科中语言使用的强调，为20世纪50年代和60年代的知识潮流和对具体学科能力的主张提供了新的线索。
Focusing on mid-twentieth-century exchanges between ethnomusicology and anthropological linguistics, this essay explores the challenges and special insights that came with the study of pitch variations in vocal communication. It surveys the interconnected material and conceptual resources that were available to researchers during this period, describes a number of attempts to discipline sounds for further analysis, and addresses the key conundrum of song in tonal languages. To what extent were researchers compelled by the substantive overlap between musical and linguistic phenomena, and to what extent did they seek to analogize models from one domain to the other? Pursuing this question reveals that sound fell between diverse research orientations that do not conform straightforwardly to “science” and “the humanities.” Methodologically, it was subject to variously formalist and contextual approaches; ontologically, it was recruited to the contiguous domains of fixed and free vocal production. These observations, along with an emphasis on language use in the disciplines, shed new light on intellectual crosscurrents and claims to specific disciplinary competence during the 1950s and 1960s.