Explore The Beatles' Song Lyrics Through A Text-World-Model-Based Analysis Of Negation

Negation is a modality that displays the speaker or writer's denial of previous information. Cast in Paul Werth's Text World Theory, negation suggests non-events or non-states, blocks temporary information flow and more broadly causes people to question the taken-for-granted claims in the society.By exploring the modality of negation in the song lyrics of the Beatles through Text World Model both quantitatively and qualitatively, the dissertation concludes that this model is a particularly adequate for the description of how musical discourse is processed in an active and context-dependent way...