On the possibility of a parallelism between Wittgenstein’s understanding of language and music

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2019

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Durukan, Burcu

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In my thesis, my main aim is to examine the parallelism between Ludwig Wittgenstein’s understanding of language and music. I will explain my ideas about the similarity between language and music with the linguistic concepts of Wittgenstein. Then, I will compare music and language in terms of their resemblance regarding the issue of meaning. Lastly, I will conclude that musical understanding is shaped through being a part of a particular social context just as in the case of understanding a language, and the value of music cannot be uttered by words.

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Philosophy, Modern., Wittgenstein, Music, Language, Understanding

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http://etd.lib.metu.edu.tr/upload/12623466/index.pdf
https://hdl.handle.net/11511/43711

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Graduate School of Social Sciences, Thesis