Ideophones And Sound Symbolism In Atlantic Creoles

Author : Erhard Friedrich Karl Voeltz,Christa Kilian-Hatz
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 454 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2001-01-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9027229465

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Ideophones by Erhard Friedrich Karl Voeltz,Christa Kilian-Hatz Pdf

The present volume represents a selection of papers presented at the International Symposium on Ideophones held in January 1999 in St. Augustin, Germany. They center around the following hypotheses: Ideophones are universal; and constitute a grammatical category in all languages of the world; ideophones and similar words have a special dramaturgic function that differs from all other word classes: they simulate an event, an emotion, a perception through language. In addition to this unique function, a good number of formal parallels can be observed. The languages dealt with here display strikingly similar patterns of derivational processes involving ideophones. An equally widespread common feature is the introduction of ideophones via a verbum dicendi or complementizer. Another observation concerns the sound-symbolic behavior of ideophones. Thus the word formation of ideophones differs from other words in their tendency for iconicity and sound-symbolism. Finally it is made clear that ideophones are part of spoken language — the language register, where gestures are used — rather than written language.

Author : Angela Bartens
Publisher : Finnish Academy of Science and Letters
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : STANFORD:36105029053498

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Ideophones and Sound Symbolism in Atlantic Creoles by Angela Bartens Pdf

Author : Pascal Michelucci,Olga Fischer,Christina Ljungberg
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 441 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2011-11-23
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027243461

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Semblance and Signification by Pascal Michelucci,Olga Fischer,Christina Ljungberg Pdf

The articles assembled in Semblance and Signification explore linguistic and literary structures from a range of theoretical perspectives with a view to understanding the extent, prevalence, productivity, and limitations of iconically grounded forms of semiosis. With the complementary examination of large theoretical issues, extensive corpus analysis in several modern languages such as Italian, Japanese Sign Language, and English, and applied close studies across a range of artistic media, this volume brings a fresh understanding of the cognitive underpinnings of iconicity. If primary and secondary modelling systems are rarely studied in tandem, it is clear from this volume that their fruitful juxtaposition yields striking insight into the cognitive concerns that pervade current semiotic research.

Author : Nobuo Masataka
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 161 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2008-08-27
Category : Science
ISBN : 9784431791027

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The Origins of Language by Nobuo Masataka Pdf

Developments in cognitive science indicate that human and nonhuman primates share a range of behavioral and physiological characteristics that speak to the issue of language origins. This volume has three major themes, woven throughout the chapters. First, it is argued that scientists in animal behavior and anthropology need to move beyond theoretical debate to a more empirically focused and comparative approach to language. Second, those empirical and comparative methods are described, revealing underpinnings of language, some of which are shared by humans and other primates and others of which are unique to humans. New insights are discussed, and several hypotheses emerge concerning the evolutionary forces that led to the "design" of language. Third, evolutionary challenges that led to adaptive changes in communication over time are considered with an eye toward understanding various constraints that channeled the process.

Author : Taro Kageyama,Hideki Kishimoto
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 747 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2016-01-29
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 9781614512097

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Handbook of Japanese Lexicon and Word Formation by Taro Kageyama,Hideki Kishimoto Pdf

This volume presents a comprehensive survey of the lexicon and word formation processes in contemporary Japanese, with particular emphasis on their typologically characteristic features and their interactions with syntax and semantics. Through contacts with a variety of languages over more than two thousand years of history, Japanese has developed a complex vocabulary system that is composed of four lexical strata: (i) native Japanese, (ii) mimetic, (iii) Sino-Japanese, and (iv) foreign (especially English). This hybrid composition of the lexicon, coupled with the agglutinative character of the language by which morphology is closely associated with syntax, gives rise to theoretically intriguing interactions with word formation processes that are not easily found with inflectional, isolate, or polysynthetic types of languages.

Author : Noriko Iwasaki,Peter Sells,Kimi Akita
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2016-12-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781317295785

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The Grammar of Japanese Mimetics by Noriko Iwasaki,Peter Sells,Kimi Akita Pdf

Mimetic words, also known as ‘sound-symbolic words’, ‘ideophones’ or more popularly as ‘onomatopoeia’, constitute an important subset of the Japanese lexicon; we find them as well in the lexicons of other Asian languages and sub-Saharan African languages. Mimetics play a central role in Japanese grammar and feature in children’s early utterances. However, this class of words is not considered as important in English and other European languages. This book aims to bridge the gap between the extensive research on Japanese mimetics and its availability to an international audience, and also to provide a better understanding of grammatical and structural aspects of sound-symbolic words from a Japanese perspective. Through the accounts of mimetics from the perspectives of morpho-syntax, semantics, language development and translation of mimetic words, linguists and students alike would find this book particularly valuable.

Author : Lars Elleström,Olga Fischer,Christina Ljungberg
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 369 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2013-03-28
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027272232

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Iconic Investigations by Lars Elleström,Olga Fischer,Christina Ljungberg Pdf

The contributions to Iconic Investigations deal with linguistic or literary aspects of language. While some studies analyze the cognitive structures of language, others pay close attention to the sounds of spoken language and the visual characteristics of written language. In addition this volume also contains studies of media types such as music and visual images that are integrated into the overall project to deepen the understanding of iconicity – the creation of meaning by way of similarity relations. Iconicity is a fundamental but relatively unexplored part of signification in language and other media types. During the last decades, the study of iconicity has emerged as a vital research area with far-reaching interdisciplinary scope and the volume should be of interest for students and researchers interested in scholarly fields such as semiotics, cognitive linguistics, conceptual metaphor studies, poetry, intermediality, and multimodality.

Author : Kaori Kabata,Kiyoko Toratani
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 380 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2016-01-15
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781614515029

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Cognitive-Functional Approaches to the Study of Japanese as a Second Language by Kaori Kabata,Kiyoko Toratani Pdf

This innovative and original volume brings together studies that apply cognitive and functional linguistics to the study of the L2 acquisition of Japanese. With each article grounded on the usage-based model and/or conceptual notions such as foregrounding and subjectivity, the volume sheds light on how cognitive and functional linguistics can help us understand aspects of Japanese acquisition that have been neglected by traditionalists.

Author : Angelika Zirker,Matthias Bauer,Olga Fischer,Christina Ljungberg
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
Page : 351 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2017-09-08
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027265180

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Dimensions of Iconicity by Angelika Zirker,Matthias Bauer,Olga Fischer,Christina Ljungberg Pdf

This volume addresses five different Dimensions of Iconicity. While some contributions examine the phonic dimensions of iconicity that are based on empirical, diachronic and theoretical work, others explore the function of similarity from a cognitive point of view. The section on multimodal dimensions takes into account philosophical, linguistic and literary perspectives in order to analyse, for example, the diagrammatic interplay of written texts and images. Contributions on performative dimensions of iconicity focus on Buddhist mantras, Hollywood films, and the dynamics of rhetorical structures in Shakespeare. Last but not least, the volume also addresses new ways of considering iconicity, including notational iconicity, the interplay of iconicity, ambiguity, interpretability, and the iconicity of literary analysis from a formal semanticist point of view.

Author : Peter Bakker,Yaron Matras
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 452 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2013-06-26
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781614513711

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Contact Languages by Peter Bakker,Yaron Matras Pdf

This volume deals with several types of contact languages: pidgins, creoles, mixed languages, and multi-ethnolects. It also approaches contact languages from two perspectives: an historical linguistic perspective, more specifically from a viewpoint of genealogical linguistics, language descent and linguistic family tree models; and a sociolinguistic perspective, identifying specific social contexts in which contact languages emerge.

Author : Silvia Kouwenberg,John Victor Singler
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 704 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2009-02-11
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781444305999

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The Handbook of Pidgin and Creole Studies by Silvia Kouwenberg,John Victor Singler Pdf

Featuring an international contributor list, this long-awaited and broad-ranging collection examines the key issues, topics and research in pidgin and creole studies. A comprehensive reference work exploring the treatment of core aspects of pidgins/creoles, focusing on the questions that animate creole studies Brings together newly-commissioned entries by an international contributor team Accessibly structured into four sections covering: the character of pidgins and creoles; the relation of pidgins/creoles to other language phenomena and other languages; issues in pidgin/creole genesis; and the role of pidgins/creoles in society Provides a valuable resource for students, scholars and researchers working across a number linguistic disciplines, including sociolinguistics, historical linguistics, and the anthropology of language

Author : Sijmen Tol,Hella Olbertz,Mark Janse
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 1674 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2004-12-10
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 1402030088

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Linguistic Bibliography for the Year 2000 / Bibliographie Linguistique de l'Année 2000 by Sijmen Tol,Hella Olbertz,Mark Janse Pdf

Bibliographie Linguistique/ Linguistic Bibliography is the annual bibliography of linguistics published by the Permanent International Committee of Linguists under the auspices of the International Council of Philosophy and Humanistic Studies of UNESCO. With a tradition of more than fifty years (the first two volumes, covering the years 1939-1947, were published in 1949-1950), Bibliographie Linguistique is by far the most comprehensive bibliography in the field. It covers all branches of linguistics, both theoretical and descriptive, from all geographical areas, including less known and extinct languages, with particular attention to the many endangered languages of the world. Up-to-date information is guaranteed by the collaboration of some forty contributing specialists from all over the world. With over 20,000 titles arranged according to a detailed state-of-the-art classification, Bibliographie Linguistique remains the standard reference book for every scholar of language and linguistics.

Author : Lise Winer
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Page : 1072 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2009-01-16
Category : Reference
ISBN : 9780773576070

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Dictionary of the English/Creole of Trinidad & Tobago by Lise Winer Pdf

Using the historical principles of the Oxford English Dictionary, Lise Winer presents the first scholarly dictionary of this unique language. The dictionary comprises over 12,200 entries, including over 4500 for flora and fauna alone, with numerous cross-references. Entries include definitions, alternative spellings, pronunciations, etymologies, grammatical information, and illustrative citations of usage. Winer draws from a wide range of sources - newspapers, literature, scientific reports, sound recordings of songs and interviews, spoken language - to provide a wealth and depth of language, clearly situated within a historical, cultural, and social context.

Author : Aina Urdze
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2018-05-07
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783110599329

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Non-Prototypical Reduplication by Aina Urdze Pdf

As “reduplication” is a continuously discussed topic in the field of linguistic typology and morphology there is still the need to reach a deeper understanding of reduplicative processes. This volume aims to explore the boundaries of reduplication proper from an outside angle, i.e. by looking into non-prototypical cases which challenge the formal and functional criteria for reduplication proper. The articles selected cover various linguistic areals from Southeast Asia, Africa and Europe. Abbi explores echo formations and reduplicative expressives in Southeast Asia. Anderson presents an in-depth study on various reduplication phenomena in the Munda language family. Nintemann addresses a formal problem of reduplication proper in Bantu languages. Finkbeiner discusses a case of triplication in German, contrasting it with the framework of reduplication. Kallergi & Konstantinidou provide an detailed insight into several kinds of echo formations in Modern Greek, including diachronic aspects. Rozhanskiy’s focus is on unexpected reduplicative patterns found in the formation of Komi ideophones. Stolz delivers a thorough crosslinguistic investigation on reduplicative phenomena, favouring the canonical approach over the prototype method.

Author : John Holm
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 0521585813

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An Introduction to Pidgins and Creoles by John Holm Pdf

A clear and concise introduction to the study of how new languages come into being.