Author: George FortunePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Shona language
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Shona Grammatical Constructions: The verbal constructions. Some notes on ideophones and ideophonic constructions in Shona
Author: George FortunePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Shona language
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Shona Grammatical Constructions
Author: George FortunePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Shona language
Languages : en
Pages : 230
Book Description
Ideophones
Author: Erhard Friedrich Karl VoeltzPublisher: John Benjamins Publishing
ISBN: 9789027229465
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 454
Book Description
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.
Sound Symbolism
Author: Leanne HintonPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521026772
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 396
Book Description
A study of the relationship between the sound of an utterance and its meaning.
The African Book Publishing Record
Author: A Grammar of Iconism
Author: Earl R. AndersonPublisher: Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press
ISBN: 9780838637647
Category : Grammar, Comparative and general
Languages : en
Pages : 412
Book Description
Literary criticism often includes ad hoc comments about onomatopoeia, synaesthesia, or other forms of iconism. In A Grammar of Iconism, Earl Anderson discusses these phenomena systematically. According to Anderson, modern post-Saussurian linguistics has as its central tenet the arbitrariness of linguistic signs. Thus, linguistic elements that bear some relationship to their referent have been seen as marginal to the system of language, or at best similar in their arbitrariness to other linguistic signs. As an example of the latter, while most languages have an onomatopoeic element, different languages imitate sounds differently. Anderson argues against the standard view, provides a detailed critique of the negative arguments against iconism, and offers a positive typology that demonstrates the extensiveness and complexity of iconism in language.
Reported Discourse
Author: Tom GüldemannPublisher: John Benjamins Publishing
ISBN: 9789027229588
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 446
Book Description
The present volume unites 15 papers on reported discourse from a wide genetic and geographical variety of languages. Besides the treatment of traditional problems of reported discourse like the classification of its intermediate categories, the book reflects in particular how its grammatical, semantic, and pragmatic properties have repercussions in other linguistic domains like tense-aspect-modality, evidentiality, reference tracking and pronominal categories, and the grammaticalization history of quotative constructions. Almost all papers present a major shift away from analyzing reported discourse with the help of abstract transformational principles toward embedding it in functional and pragmatic aspects of language. Another central methodological approach pervading this collection consists in the discourse-oriented examination of reported discourse based on large corpora of spoken or written texts which is increasingly replacing analyses of constructed de-contextualized utterances prevalent in many earlier treatments. The book closes with a comprehensive bibliography on reported discourse of about 1.000 entries.
Zambezia
Author: Rhodesia Research Index
Author: Accessions List, Eastern Africa
Author: Library of Congress. Library of Congress Office, Nairobi, KenyaPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Africa, Eastern
Languages : en
Pages : 222
Book Description
Number 6 includes cumulative main and added entry index for the monographs listed in that year.