Sound Symbolism - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0521452198 ISBN 13: 9780521452199

Verlag: Cambridge University Press, 1994

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A study of the relationship between the sound of an utterance and its meaning.

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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. The wide-ranging new research presented here reveals that sound symbolism plays a far more significant role in language than scholarship has hitherto recognized.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1994
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0521452198
• ISBN 13: 9780521452199
• Einband: Gebundene Ausgabe
• Anzahl der Seiten: 384
• Herausgeber: Hinton Leanne, Ohala John J., Nichols Johanna
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