Ideophones, mimetics and expressives / edited by Kimi Akita, Purashanto Parudeshi.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Akita, Kimi, editor.

Parudeshi, Purashanto, 1965- editor.

Series:

Iconicity in language and literature ; Volume 16.

Iconicity in language and literature ; Volume 16

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Iconicity (Linguistics).

Visual communication.

Mimetic words.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (337 pages).

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Publishing Company, [2019]

System Details:

Mode of access: World Wide Web.

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Editors and contributors

Abbreviations and symbols

Introduction ideophones, mimetics, and expressives: Theoretical and typological perspectives / Kimi Akita and Prashant Pardeshi

Part I. Phonology and morphology: 1. 'Ideophone' as a comparative concept / Mark Dingemanse

2. The phonological structure of Japanese mimetics and motherese / Haruo Kubozono

3. Monosyllabic and disyllabic roots in the diachronic development of Japanese mimetics / Shoko Hamano

4. Cross-linguistic variation in phonaesthemic canonicity, with special reference to Korean and English / Nahyun Kwon

5. Classification of nominal compounds containing mimetics: A Construction Morphology perspective / Kiyoko Toratani

Part II. Semantics and pragmatics: 6. Towards a semantic typological classification of motion ideophones: The motion semantic grid / Iraide Ibarretxe-Antuñano

7. The sensori-semantic clustering of ideophonic meaning in Pastaza Quichua / Janis B. Nuckolls

8. The power of 'not saying who' in Czech onomaopoeia / Masako U. Fidler

9. Mimetics, gaze, and facial expression in a multimodal corpus of Japanese / Kimi Akita

Part III. Language acquisition and multilingualism: 10. The structure of mimetic verbs in child and adult Japanese / Keiko Murasugi

11. Iconicity in L2 Japanese speakers' multi-modal language use: Mimetics and co-speech gesture in relation to L1 and Japanese proficiency / Noriko Iwasaki and Keiko Yoshioka

12. Ideophones as a measure of multilingualism / G. Tucker Childs

Name index

Subject index

Language index.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9789027262608

9027262608