Onomatopoetics in the Indian Linguistic Area

Emeneau, M. B.

doi:10.2307/411660

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“…Following Hoffkann's (1952) study of ancient Indian languages, Emeneau (1969) published an overview of "onomatopoetics" in the Indian linguistic area. Uhlenbeck (1952) and Carr (1966) Akita's (2009b) bibliography of Japanese studies of mimetics, the 1960s were a fruitful period in this tradition too, with a five-fold increase in the number of studies compared to prior decades.…”

Section: Grammar and Performance: Doke And Kunenementioning

confidence: 99%

Redrawing the margins of language: Lessons from research on ideophones

Dingemanse

2018

Glossa: A Journal of General Linguistics

112

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Ideophones (also known as expressives or mimetics, and including onomatopoeia) have been systematically studied in linguistics since the 1850s, when they were first described as a lexical class of vivid sensory words in West-African languages. This paper surveys the research history of ideophones, from its roots in African linguistics to its fruits in general linguistics and typology around the globe. It shows that despite a recurrent narrative of marginalisation, work on ideophones has made an impact in many areas of linguistics, from theories of phonological features to typologies of manner and motion, and from sound symbolism to sensory language. Due to their hybrid nature as gradient vocal gestures that grow roots in discrete linguistic systems, ideophones provide opportunities to reframe typological questions, reconsider the role of language ideology in linguistic scholarship, and rethink the margins of language. With ideophones increasingly being brought into the fold of the language sciences, this review synthesises past theoretical insights and empirical findings in order to enable future work to build on them.

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Section: Grammar and Performance: Doke And Kunenementioning

confidence: 99%

Redrawing the margins of language: Lessons from research on ideophones

Dingemanse

2018

Glossa: A Journal of General Linguistics

112

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“…Entretanto, os ideofones não são apenas típicos das línguas africanas, eles fazem parte de línguas como coreano (CRUZ, 2000b;LEE, 1992), línguas indo-pacíficas munda (KUIPER, 1965), línguas indianas (EMENEAU, 1969), japonês (ALFONSO, 1966e TAKEMOTO, 1998, algumas línguas indo-arianas (DIMOCK, 1957) e chinês. Constituem também a prova de influência direta do chinês no inglês falado em Singapura (LIM, 1998).…”

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Simbolismo sonoro do PB: o estudo dos ideofones

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Fernandes

2004

Rev. Est. Ling.

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Abstract[Introduction] The studies about ideophones in Brazilian Portuguese (PB) reveal that in the Portuguese system the ideophones are typically formed by bilabial sounds (CRUZ, 2000a).[aim] The main aim of this study is to verify if this is a typical feature of the PB or a resource of the sound symbolic expressivity. [methodology] In this study we observed the ideophones phenomenon in three kinds of varieties of Portuguese: (i) Afro-brazilian -ABP (CRUZ, 2000a), Brazilian dialect spoken in Amazonian by the maroon community; (ii) Amazonie Portuguese -AM (TRINDADE, 1992;CRUZ, 2000a;CASSIQUE, 1995) and (iii) standard Brazilian Portuguese -PB (OLIVEIRA, 2000;BORGES, 1991). We considered other data too: a) data collected through direct observation of different conversational situations and b) the data selected from cartoons. Particularly, we will analyse two aspects: the phonetic feature of the sounds found in the ideophones and the association of the meanings established.[results] The study of the Brazilian Portuguese ideophones show us: a) a tendency to bilabiail sounds, b) a tendency to expression links to emition of the sound and c) ideophones are not dialectal features of ABP.[conclusion] The results indicate a necessity to study more the PB.

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“…Besides their susceptibility to performative foregrounding, sound symbolic forms also constitute a formally distinctive word class. Sound symbolism has been documented in numerous languages and language families, including African (Childs 1989;Newman 1968;Samarin 1971), Indo-Aryan (Dimock 1957;Emeneau 1969), Japanese (Frei 1970), Mon-Khmer (Diffloth 1980), andAmerind (Durbin 1973). Sound symbolic words have also been referred to as "ideophones" (Doke 1935;Samarin 1971), "expressives" (Diffloth 1972), "phonaesthetic words" (Henderson 1965), and "onomatopoeic words.…”

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Sound Symbolic Involvement

Nuckolls

1992

J Linguistic Anthropol

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This article examines an iconic form of communication, sound symbolism, which has been associated with oral cultures and implicated in paradigms of primitive mentality. I argue that Lowland Ecuadorean Quechua speakers use sound symbolic iconicity to create interlocutionary involvement. A speaker's performative foregrounding of a sound symbolic form simulates the salient qualities of an action, event, or process, and thereby invites a listener to project into an experience. This projected involvement, in turn, points the listener to deeper kinds of imaginative, intellectual, and emotional engagement with the narrative. The argument is based on an analysis of the formal and semantic characteristics of sound symbolic words in a conversational narrative translated from Quechua.

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Onomatopoetics in the Indian Linguistic Area

Cited by 46 publications

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Redrawing the margins of language: Lessons from research on ideophones

Redrawing the margins of language: Lessons from research on ideophones

Simbolismo sonoro do PB: o estudo dos ideofones

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