The Iconic Interpretations of Reduplication: Issues in the Study of Reduplication in Caribbean Creole Languages

Kouwenberg, Silvia; LaCharité, Darlene

doi:10.1076/ejes.5.1.59.4783

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“…Merlini Barbaresi 2001, 1994: 93; see also article 28 on affective palatalization in Basque). also Kouwenberg and LaCharité 2001). It works well in the formation of hypocoristics from personal names and pet names, in forms of endearment and the like, whereas it is highly improbable for a category like agentivity or instrumentality to be ever expressed by means of phonic substance that bears a resemblance to its semantic content, since no speaker is likely to come up with an idea of what agentivity or instrumentality "sound like".…”

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9. Word-formation in natural morphology

Luschützky¹

2015

Word-Formation

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Natural morphology is not a descriptive model of word structure but an explanatory framework designed to evaluate morphological techniques from a functionalist point of view along principles deduced from Peircean semiotics. Word-formation is seen as largely determined by extralinguistic factors such as communicative needs, cognitive exigencies and the conditions on speech performance and processing. Universal preferences are formulated that are reflected in cross-linguistic distribution, order of acquisition, diachronic change and other fields of evidence, but predictions are relativized by typological and language-specific criteria.

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Section: Imaging Iconicitymentioning

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9. Word-formation in natural morphology

Luschützky¹

2015

Word-Formation

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“…Yet evidence from a wide range of languages suggests that ideophones have special licence to perform in the depictive mode (Zwicky & Pullum 1987;Kunene 2001), which even extends to creative forms (Dingemanse 2014). In this sense, ideophones represent a different use of verbal material than ordinary words, just as Magritte's images illustrate a different use of ink than his words.…”

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“…This is the approach taken by Janis Nuckolls, who likens ideophones to cinematic renderings and describes how they may provide close-up shots, wide-angle shots, and time-lapsed sequences of sensory imagery (Nuckolls 1995). Along the same lines, ideophones have been called vocal gestures, drawing attention to their dynamic, free-flowing, gesture-like nature, and to the fact that they often are produced as multi-modal performances (Kunene 2001;McGregor 2001;Dingemanse 2013). We can further emphasize the performance-like aspect of ideophones by characterising them as enactments, a term used in recent work on sign language for what is essentially the same phenomenon (Hodge & Ferrara 2014;Hodge & Johnston 2014).…”

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“…The descriptive reduplicative processes have straightforward grammatical interpretations: the recurrence of some action in time or space (pluractional) or the recurrent spatial distribution of things (distributive) (Kouwenberg & LaCharité 2001). Although often historically relatable to iconic interpretations, these meanings are highly conventionalised, in some cases giving rise to lexicalised forms like nyɔnyɔ 'search' (from nyɔ~nyɔ 'look~pluractional').…”

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Ideophones and reduplication

Dingemanse

2015

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Repetition is one of the most basic operations on talk, often discussed for its iconic meanings. Ideophones are marked words that depict sensory imagery, often identified by their reduplicated forms. Yet not all reduplication is iconic, and not all ideophones are reduplicated. This paper discusses the semantics and pragmatics of repeated talk with special reference to ideophones. To understand these phenomena, it is useful to distinguish two modes of representation in language -description and depiction -along with cues like prosodic foregrounding that help steer listener's interpretations from one to the other. Reduplication can partake in both modes, which is why it is common in ideophones and other areas of grammar. Using evidence from a range of languages, this paper shows how the study of ideophones sheds light on the interpretation of repeated talk, and argues that both description and depiction are fundamental to understanding how language works.

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“…It has been studied in both its formal (Moravcsik 1978;Inkelas & Zoll 2005;Štekauer et al 2012) and semantic aspects (Key 1965;Moravcsik 1978;Regier 1994;Regier 1998;Fischer 2011), with much attention given to the iconic relation that exists between form and meaning in at least some of its uses (e.g. Haiman 1980;Lakoff & Johnson 1980;Kouwenberg & LaCharité 2001;Fischer 2011). Despite there being several surveys of the functions of reduplication across languages, none so far has been carried out in a way that is large in scale, detailed in terms of the functional distinctions made and quantitative in identifying trends with regard to meaning.…”

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Predicative reduplication: Functions, their relationships and iconicities

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Ponsford²

2018

Linguistic Typology

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We survey the predicative functions of reduplication and analyze the relationships between them in terms of semantic affinity and iconicity. Forty-five functions are identified in 108 languages. The most frequent ones have to do with repetition/continuity of events, multiplicity of participants, and intensity. Reduplication can be polysemous. Based on high cross-linguistic frequency of expression by a common reduplicative form and cases of ambiguity, we identify semantic affinities among twelve functions, together comprising a semantic map. We also analyze the functions in terms of five iconicities-iconic relationships between specific aspects of form and meaning. An interesting relationship emerges: for any pair of semantically closely related functions, the iconicities of one are always a superset of the iconicities of the other. On the widely-held assumption that initial uses are high in iconicity, the picture is one of monotonic loss of iconicity as use is extended. As well as showing empirically how the functions relate to each other, we also review three earlier proposals which were largely based on reasoning.

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The Iconic Interpretations of Reduplication: Issues in the Study of Reduplication in Caribbean Creole Languages

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9. Word-formation in natural morphology

9. Word-formation in natural morphology

Ideophones and reduplication

Predicative reduplication: Functions, their relationships and iconicities

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