Sound symbolism:

Sound symbolism is the study of the relationship between the sound of an utterance and its meaning. In this interdisciplinary collection of new studies, twenty-four leading scholars discuss the role of sound symbolism in a theory of language. They consider sound symbolic processes in a wide range of...

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Weitere beteiligte Personen: Hinton, Leanne 1941- (HerausgeberIn), Nichols, Johanna 1945- (HerausgeberIn), Ohala, John J. 1941-2020 (HerausgeberIn)
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:Englisch
Veröffentlicht: Cambridge Cambridge University Press 1994
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Links:https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511751806
https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511751806
https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511751806
https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511751806
https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511751806
Zusammenfassung:Sound symbolism is the study of the relationship between the sound of an utterance and its meaning. In this interdisciplinary collection of new studies, twenty-four leading scholars discuss the role of sound symbolism in a theory of language. They consider sound symbolic processes in a wide range of languages from Europe, Asia, Africa, Australia, and North and South America. Beginning with an evocative typology of sound symbolic processes, they go on to examine not only the well-known areas of study, such as onomatopoeia and size sound symbolism, but also less frequently discussed topics such as the sound symbolic value of vocatives and of involuntary noises, and the marginal areas of 'conventional sound symbolism', such as phonesthemes. The book concludes with a series of studies on the biological basis of sound symbolism, and draws comparisons with the communication systems of other species. This is a definitive work on the role of sound symbolism in a theory of language
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Umfang:1 Online-Ressource (x, 373 Seiten) Diagramme
ISBN:9780511751806
DOI:10.1017/CBO9780511751806