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Sound Symbolism (Paperback, New)
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Sound Symbolism (Paperback, New)
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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.
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