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Sounds Like Life - Sound-symbolic Grammar, Performance, and Cognition in Pastaza Quechua (Hardcover)
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Sounds Like Life - Sound-symbolic Grammar, Performance, and Cognition in Pastaza Quechua (Hardcover)
Series: Oxford Studies in Anthropological Linguistics, 2
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All languages feature sound symbolism, which occurs when the form
of a linguistic utterance resembles in some way what it describes
or refers to. Onomatopoeic words, such as thump and whack, are a
couple of examples from English. For English speakers and other
westerners, however, sound symbolism is relegated to whimsical
styles of speech and writing. In Sounds Like Life, Janis Nuckolls
argues that sound symbolism is integrated with the grammar of
Pastaza Quechua, a dialect spoken in eastern Ecuador. With data
from brief exchanges, sustained dialogues, explanatory accounts,
narratives of personal experience, and myths, Nuckolls explores the
ways in which abstract grammatical concepts, such as duration and
completiveness, are communicated through sound-symbolic images.
Moreover, the evidence from sound symbolism's grammatical
patterning, its performative foregrounding in multiple contexts of
use, and its ability to trigger memories of key life experiences,
suggests that for the Pastaza Quechua sound symbolism is more than
a style of speaking. It is a style of thinking about oneself as
connected, by the sounds that resonate through one's body, with the
natural world. This book offers the first detailed study of the
grammatical properties of sound symbolism, which has significant
implications for grammatical theory. Nuckolls challenges the
traditional conceptions of aspect grammar, demonstrating that in
Pastaza Quechua, grammatical representations of duration and
completiveness depend on speakers' spatial and perceptual
experience, and are embodied within the nature of linguistic
communication.
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