Sound Symbolism

By: Leanne Hinton (Editor), Johanna Nichols (Editor), John J. Ohala (Editor)

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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.

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"All of the papers are sources of tantalizing, testable hypotheses...of considerable value and evidence of a welcome renewal of interest in some very old questions." Journal of Linguistic Anthropology

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Published: 27th March 1995

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List of contributors
Introduction: Sound-symbolic processes
Native American Languages North of Mexico
Symbolism in
Nootkan vocative vocalism and its implications
Relative motivation in denotational and indexical sound symbolism of Wasco-Wishram Chinookan
Native Languages of Latin America
Symbolism and change in the sound system of
Evidence for pervasive synesthetic sound symbolism in ethnozoological nomenclature
Noise words in
Asia
i: big a: small
Tone, intonation, and sound symbolism in Lahu: loading the syllable canon
An experimental investigation into phonetic symbolism as it relates to
Palatalization in Japanese sound symbolism
Australia and Africa
Yir-Yiront ideophones
African ideophones
Europe
Regular sound development, phonosymbolic orchestration, disambiguation of homonyms
Modern Greek ts: beyond sound symbolism
On levels of analysis of sound symbolism in poetry, with an application to Russian poetry
Finnish and Gilyak sound symbolism - the interplay between system and history
English
Phonosyntactics
Aural images
Inanimate imitatives in English
The Biological Bases of Sound Symbolism
Some observations on the function of sound in clinical work
The frequency code underlies the sound-symbolic use of voice pitch
Sound symbolism and its role in non-human vertebrate communication
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