''Tighinn o'n Cridhe'' - 'coming from the centre': an ethnography of sensory metaphor on Scottish Gaelic communal aesthetics
This dissertation draws upon local aesthetic attitudes held by members of the elder generation of first-language Scottish Gaelic speakers in Cape Breton Island, Canada towards various forms of communally-based cultural expression as conceived through metaphor. Through such engagement one begins to s...
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This dissertation draws upon local aesthetic attitudes held by members of the elder generation of first-language Scottish Gaelic speakers in Cape Breton Island, Canada towards various forms of communally-based cultural expression as conceived through metaphor. Through such engagement one begins to sense the central role of emplaced identity alongside embodied experience in describing these forms. In many ways, to the ethnographic fieldworker, this is uncharted territory. Here fieldwork functions within emic models of the cèilidh (visit) through collective social engagement in seanchas, an intracultural form of metalinguistic and metacultural discourse. Such a methodological approach facilitates in unveiling an intersubjective understanding of past, present and future acts, the forging of collective identity in the social world and finding meaning in cultural expression. In the context of this dissertation, what began as a seanchas-based exploration into local ethnoaesthetic attitudes revealed a wealth of metaphor in various abstractions arising out of our shared discourse. Such organically yet creatively conceived metaphors function between that which is symbolic and habitual, capable of crossing the boundaries of genre and breaking-down the partitions of that which is at once deemed abstract and concrete. Through the conceptual metaphor theories of George Lakoff and Mark Johnson among others, this works employs a dynamic system of interpretation that, when working in this ethnolinguistic context, makes full use of the available body of cultural and linguistic knowledge both synchronically and diachronically. This ethnography of metaphor, therefore, follows a pathway arising out of a sequential understanding of sensory experience in interpreting both identity and aesthetic thought as expressed by these Scottish Gaels. Beginning with individual orientation in time and space through cultural, social and emotional engagement with both the physical and cognitive landscape, the ethnography goes on to explore both a ... |
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''Tighinn o'n Cridhe'' - 'coming from the centre': an ethnography of sensory metaphor on Scottish Gaelic communal aesthetics |
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''Tighinn o'n Cridhe'' - 'coming from the centre': an ethnography of sensory metaphor on Scottish Gaelic communal aesthetics |
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Falzett, Tiber. 2007–2010. “Brìgh ’Chiùil: Vernacular Ear-Learned Piping in Cape Breton and South Uist Explored through Seanchas-based Narratives.” Scottish Studies 35: 59–91. Falzett, Tiber. 2010. “‘Am measg nan daoine ga bruidhinn ’s ga labhairt:’ An Exploration in Seanchas-based Discourse.” In Rannsachadh na Gàidhlig 5: Fifth Scottish Gaelic Research Conference. Ed. Kenneth E. Nilsen. Sydney, NS: Cape Breton University Press. 78-99. Falzett, Tiber. 2010. “Aspects of Indigenous Instrument Technologies and the Question of the Smallpipe in the Old and New World Gàidhealtachds.” Review of Scottish Culture (ROSC) 22: 176-95. Falzett, Tiber. 2012. “‘Bhio’ tu dìreach ga ithe, bha e cho math=You would just eat it, it was so good:’ Music, Metaphor and Food for Thought on Scottish Gaelic Aesthetics.” In Endangered Metaphors. Eds. Anna Idström, Elisabeth Piirainen, in cooperation with Tiber Falzett. Amsterdam: John Benjamins. 315-38. Falzett, Tiber. 2013. “Cuir dhachaigh e (‘Send it home’): The Gifts of the Little People, the Bob of Fettercairn and the aesthetics of a tale and a tune.” In Rannsachadh na Gàidhlig 6. Eds Nancy R. McGuire and Colm Ó Baoill. Obar Dheathain: An Clò Gàidhealach. 93-120. Falzett, Tiber, Anna Idström, Elisabeth Piirainen, eds. 2012. Endangered Metaphors. Amsterdam: John Benjamins. http://hdl.handle.net/1842/17997 |
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ftunivedinburgh:oai:era.ed.ac.uk:1842/17997 2023-07-30T04:02:44+02:00 ''Tighinn o'n Cridhe'' - 'coming from the centre': an ethnography of sensory metaphor on Scottish Gaelic communal aesthetics Falzett, Tiber Francis-Mark West, Gary Shaw, John other 2015-07-02 application/msword application/pdf http://hdl.handle.net/1842/17997 en eng The University of Edinburgh Falzett, Tiber. 2007–2010. “Brìgh ’Chiùil: Vernacular Ear-Learned Piping in Cape Breton and South Uist Explored through Seanchas-based Narratives.” Scottish Studies 35: 59–91. Falzett, Tiber. 2010. “‘Am measg nan daoine ga bruidhinn ’s ga labhairt:’ An Exploration in Seanchas-based Discourse.” In Rannsachadh na Gàidhlig 5: Fifth Scottish Gaelic Research Conference. Ed. Kenneth E. Nilsen. Sydney, NS: Cape Breton University Press. 78-99. Falzett, Tiber. 2010. “Aspects of Indigenous Instrument Technologies and the Question of the Smallpipe in the Old and New World Gàidhealtachds.” Review of Scottish Culture (ROSC) 22: 176-95. Falzett, Tiber. 2012. “‘Bhio’ tu dìreach ga ithe, bha e cho math=You would just eat it, it was so good:’ Music, Metaphor and Food for Thought on Scottish Gaelic Aesthetics.” In Endangered Metaphors. Eds. Anna Idström, Elisabeth Piirainen, in cooperation with Tiber Falzett. Amsterdam: John Benjamins. 315-38. Falzett, Tiber. 2013. “Cuir dhachaigh e (‘Send it home’): The Gifts of the Little People, the Bob of Fettercairn and the aesthetics of a tale and a tune.” In Rannsachadh na Gàidhlig 6. Eds Nancy R. McGuire and Colm Ó Baoill. Obar Dheathain: An Clò Gàidhealach. 93-120. Falzett, Tiber, Anna Idström, Elisabeth Piirainen, eds. 2012. Endangered Metaphors. Amsterdam: John Benjamins. http://hdl.handle.net/1842/17997 2100-12-31 Scottish Gaelic ethnology aesthetics conceptual metaphor Thesis or Dissertation Doctoral PhD Doctor of Philosophy 2015 ftunivedinburgh 2023-07-09T20:31:23Z This dissertation draws upon local aesthetic attitudes held by members of the elder generation of first-language Scottish Gaelic speakers in Cape Breton Island, Canada towards various forms of communally-based cultural expression as conceived through metaphor. Through such engagement one begins to sense the central role of emplaced identity alongside embodied experience in describing these forms. In many ways, to the ethnographic fieldworker, this is uncharted territory. Here fieldwork functions within emic models of the cèilidh (visit) through collective social engagement in seanchas, an intracultural form of metalinguistic and metacultural discourse. Such a methodological approach facilitates in unveiling an intersubjective understanding of past, present and future acts, the forging of collective identity in the social world and finding meaning in cultural expression. In the context of this dissertation, what began as a seanchas-based exploration into local ethnoaesthetic attitudes revealed a wealth of metaphor in various abstractions arising out of our shared discourse. Such organically yet creatively conceived metaphors function between that which is symbolic and habitual, capable of crossing the boundaries of genre and breaking-down the partitions of that which is at once deemed abstract and concrete. Through the conceptual metaphor theories of George Lakoff and Mark Johnson among others, this works employs a dynamic system of interpretation that, when working in this ethnolinguistic context, makes full use of the available body of cultural and linguistic knowledge both synchronically and diachronically. This ethnography of metaphor, therefore, follows a pathway arising out of a sequential understanding of sensory experience in interpreting both identity and aesthetic thought as expressed by these Scottish Gaels. Beginning with individual orientation in time and space through cultural, social and emotional engagement with both the physical and cognitive landscape, the ethnography goes on to explore both a ... Doctoral or Postdoctoral Thesis Breton Island Edinburgh Research Archive (ERA - University of Edinburgh) Canada Breton Island ENVELOPE(141.383,141.383,-66.800,-66.800) |