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Translating African ideophones
Perspectives, 2001Abstract Ideophones are linguistic devices that feature prominently in African discourse and are part of the identity of African oral literature. The present article discusses the translation into English of African ideophones, using the The Ozidi Saga, an Ijo epic narrative recorded and translated into English by the Nigerian writer J. P.
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Some notes on ideophones and ideophonic constructions in Shona
African Studies, 1971(1971). Some notes on ideophones and ideophonic constructions in Shona. African Studies: Vol. 30, No. 3-4, pp. 237-258.
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Abstract Not only do we speak, we can also let inanimate objects and living organisms around us speak. We use ideophones for this. They are a linguistic instrument with which we present our environment in a kind of live broadcast. This means our listeners can now hear, see, smell, taste, and feel the event themselves.
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Journal of West African Languages, 2017
Ideophones, also referred to as ‘expressives’, have in recent years received massive attention in the literature from linguists across the globe. What still remains undoubted is the fact that ideophones are unique on a language specific basis and as such the need to uncover their nature using individual language analyses.
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Ideophones, also referred to as ‘expressives’, have in recent years received massive attention in the literature from linguists across the globe. What still remains undoubted is the fact that ideophones are unique on a language specific basis and as such the need to uncover their nature using individual language analyses.
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