Shyam Ratan, PhD student in the Centre of Applied Linguistics and Translation Studies (CALTS), School of Humanities (SoH) working with Prof. Selvaraj Arulmozi, published a research paper in A Journal of Historical Research – Shodhak, vol – 53 (05), September-December 2023, ISSN: 0302-9832.
Shyam Ratan with his co-authors published a paper in Journal on the research topic, “A Cognitive Perspective of Image Schema in the Composition of Indian Songs”, In our published paper, we are trying to clarify the image schema in songs, simply about how the image is formed behind the composition of a song. This will be so interesting to know why we generally use these concepts in songs that are there in our minds. Most of these concepts come into our brain are our worldly experiences, whatever we see around us in our environment we experience those and an image is formed there in our brain. Consequently, we extract our experiences and connect or compare them to different places with different things. This term is explained briefly in Mark Johnson’s book (The Body in the Mind) and George Lakoff’s (Women, fire, and Dangerous Things) in 1987. Songs soothe us in every condition/situation (Happy, Sad, Gloomy, etc.) in our lives. Therefore, the curiosity to know the reason behind this and to know this will be the most basic concept or question for this research. The most significant concepts behind the composition of songs are relativity, connectivity and mappings. Image schema is the subconscious form of knowledge representation that is imprinted inside the mind of humans. Empirical research topics are formed from the debate of image schema theory in the context of current linguistic and psychological research. As a result of these studies, it can be concluded that image schema theory provides valid hypotheses for designing the songs and that an image schema designs the language of songs that is reliable as well as practical and beneficial for the phases of scripts of the songs. Image schema also has some compliments for the designing of songs that are metaphorical uses in songs or the direct comparison with the most elegant entities in this universe. The theory of conceptual structure and potential is used here by Leonard Talmy. In his influential work, Talmy has argued that one of the ways that language encodes conceptual representation is by providing structural meaning, also known as schematic meaning.