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Ideophones, Mimetics and Expressives
Editors
This volume explores new frontiers in the linguistic study of iconic lexemes known as ideophones, mimetics, and expressives. A large part of the literature on this long-neglected word class has been dedicated to the description of its sound symbolism, marked morphophonology, and grammatical status in individual languages. Drawing on data from Asian (especially Japanese), African, American, and European languages, the twelve chapters in this volume aim to establish common grounds for theoretical and crosslinguistic discussions of the phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics, pragmatics, acquisition, and variation of iconic lexemes. Not only researchers who are interested in linguistic iconicity but also theoretical linguists and typologists will benefit from the updated insights presented in each study.
[Iconicity in Language and Literature, 16] 2019. ix, 325 pp.
Publishing status: Available
Published online on 3 May 2019
Published online on 3 May 2019
© John Benjamins
Table of Contents
- Editors and contributors | pp. vii–viii
- Abbreviations and symbols | pp. ix–x
- Introduction: Ideophones, mimetics, and expressives: Theoretical and typological perspectivesKimi Akita and Prashant Pardeshi | pp. 1–10
- Part I. Phonology and morphology
- Chapter 1. ‘Ideophone’ as a comparative conceptMark Dingemanse | pp. 13–34
- Chapter 2. The phonological structure of Japanese mimetics and mothereseHaruo Kubozono | pp. 35–56
- Chapter 3. Monosyllabic and disyllabic roots in the diachronic development of Japanese mimeticsShoko Hamano | pp. 57–76
- Chapter 4. Cross-linguistic variation in phonaesthemic canonicity, with special reference to Korean and EnglishNahyun Kwon | pp. 77–100
- Chapter 5. Classification of nominal compounds containing mimetics: A Construction Morphology perspectiveKiyoko Toratani | pp. 101–134
- Part II. Semantics and pragmatics
- Chapter 6. Towards a semantic typological classification of motion ideophones: The motion semantic gridIraide Ibarretxe-Antuñano | pp. 137–166
- Chapter 7. The sensori-semantic clustering of ideophonic meaning in Pastaza QuichuaJanis B. Nuckolls | pp. 167–198
- Chapter 8. The power of ‘not saying who’ in Czech onomatopoeiaMasako U. Fidler | pp. 199–228
- Chapter 9. Mimetics, gaze, and facial expression in a multimodal corpus of JapaneseKimi Akita | pp. 229–248
- Part III. Language acquisition and multilingualism
- Chapter 10. The structure of mimetic verbs in child and adult JapaneseKeiko Murasugi | pp. 251–264
- Chapter 11. Iconicity in L2 Japanese speakers’ multi-modal language use: Mimetics and co-speech gesture in relation to L1 and Japanese proficiencyNoriko Iwasaki and Keiko Yoshioka | pp. 265–302
- Chapter 12. Ideophones as a measure of multilingualismG. Tucker Childs | pp. 303–322
- Subject index | pp. 323–324
- Language index | p. 325
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