*Moscow state linguistic university, **Lomonosov Moscow state university, Moscow, Russia
The paper presents a new conception within which music and speech are treated from the semiotic perspective. The music and speech semiotic systems are examined as special hierarchical subsystems of the general semiotic interpersonal communication system. So, every speech semiotic subsystem has its own heterogeneous subsystems: e.g., articulatory, phonatory, acoustic, perceptual-auditory, etc. The speech semiotic acoustic subsystem has its own subsystems, e.g. prosody, timbre, etc. Music and speech are considered within semantics, syntax and pragmatics: semantics as an area of relations between speech and music expressions, on the one hand, and objects and processes in the world, on the other hand; syntax as an area where these expressions are interrelated; pragmatics as an area where the meaning of these expressions influences their users. Our speech and music semiotic conception includes the binary opposition «ratio – emotio». The prosodic basis of speech and basic expressive means of the «music language» are interconnected. Speech, as well as music, uses the same space and time coordinates representing the sound dynamics.
general semiotics; semiotic subsystem «speech»; semiotic subsystem «music»; syncretism; dualism
Download textFor citing: Potapova R.K., Potapov V.V. (2018). Syncretic dualism of music and speech as a special semiotic phenomenon of the human being. Human being: Image and essence. Humanitarian aspects. Moscow: INION RAN. Vol. 3(34): Anthropocentric paradigm in humanities, pp. 52-71.