Sound Symbolism

Paperback re-issue - Brossura editoriale di x-373 pagine. Lievi usure da scaffale agli angoli della paginazione, peraltro ottima copia, forse mai letta -- 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. // CONTENTS: 1. Introduction: Sound-symbolic processes - PART I - Native American languages north of Mexico: 2. Symbolism in Nez Perce; 3. Nootkan vocative vocalism and its implications; 4. Relative motivation in denotational and indexical sound symbolism of Wasco-Wishram Chinookan - PART II - Native languages of Latin America: 5. Symbolism and change in the sound system of Huastec; 6. Evidence for pervasive synesthetic sound symbolism in ethnozoological nomenclature; 7. Noise words in Guaraní - PART III - Asia: 8. i: big, a: smal; 9. Tone, intonation, and sound symbolism in Lahu: loading the syllable canon; 10. An experimental investigation into phonetic symbolism as it relates to Mandarin Chinese; 11 - Palatalization in Japanese sound symbolism - PART IV - Australia and Africa: 12 - Yir-Yiront ideophones; 13. African ideophones - PART V - Europe: 14. Regular sound development, phonosymbolic orchestration, disambiguation of homonyms; 15. Modern Greek ts: beyond sound symbolism; 16. On levels of analysis of sound symbolism in poetry, with an application to Russian poetry; 17. Finnish and Gilyak sound symbolism, the interplay between system and history - PART VI - English: 18. Phonosyntactics; 19. Aural images; 20. Inanimate imitatives in English - PART VII - The biological bases of sound symbolism: 21. Some observations on the function of sound in clinical work; 22. The frequency code underlies the sound-symbolic use of voice pitch; 23. Sound symbolism and its role in non-human vertebrate communication