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Table 1.1Number of text files and word tokens in the music criticism corpus44

Table 3.1Correspondences of the love is a journey conceptual metaphor51

Table 3.2Conceptual metaphors for time60

Table 5.1Metaphor frequency in the music criticism sample105

Table 5.2Metaphor frequency in the music criticism sample and the BNC-Baby105

Table 5.3Metaphor frequency in the music criticism sample across register105

Table 5.4Frequency of metaphor types across register106

Table 5.5Frequency of selected music-theoretic terms108

Table 5.6Source domains for music in the music criticism sample114

Table 5.7Metaphoric spaces for different target domain aspects of music115

Table 5.8Conceptual motivations for motion expressions119

Table 5.9Potential conceptual motivations for musical motion expression121

Table 5.10Conceptual metaphor basis for musico-temporal motion mappings124

Table 5.11The sonata form is a path metaphor127

Table 6.1Motion verbs in temporal motion expressions3

Table 6.2Path and manner motion verbs for temporal motion in the BNC and COHA138

Table 6.3The most frequent motion verb lemmas in the music criticism corpus140

Table 6.4Frequency distribution of the lemma ascend144

Table 6.5Key motion verbs in the music criticism corpus145

Table 6.6Type and token frequency of manner and path verbs in both corpora146

Table 6.7Temporal motion verbs that are negative keywords in the music criticism corpus147

Table 6.8Motion verbs selected for the concordance analysis149

Table 7.1Distribution of highest level of education among all 83 participants180

Table 7.2Degree of knowledge of (classical) music among participants (N = 82)180

Table 7.3Thresholds of an ordinal logistic regression model184

Table 7.4Results of the regression analysis for the literalness ratings187

Table 7.5Number of participants in relation to edu and music.edu194

Table 7.6Results of the regression analysis for the actual motion ratings195

Published online: 16 November 2022