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Ideophones and the Evolution of Language (Paperback)
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Ideophones have been recognized in modern linguistics at least
since 1935, but they still lie far outside the concerns of
mainstream (Western) linguistic debate, in part because they are
most richly attested in relatively unstudied (often unwritten)
languages. The evolution of language, on the other hand, has
recently become a fashionable topic, but all speculations so far
have been almost totally data-free. Without disputing the tenet
that there are no primitive languages, this book argues that
ideophones may be an atavistic throwback to an earlier stage of
communication, where sounds and gestures were paired in what can
justifiably be called a 'prelinguistic' fashion. The structure of
ideophones may also provide answers to deeper questions, among them
how communicative gestures may themselves have emerged from
practical actions. Moreover, their current distribution and
behaviour provide hints as to how they may have become conventional
words in languages with conventional rules.
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