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Language and CognitionIdeophones – imitative words using the stream of speech to simulate/depict the rise and fall of sensory perceptions and emotions and temporal experiences of completiveness, instantaneousness, and repetitiveness – have been characterized as semantically ...
Dan P. Dewey +4 more
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Ideophones are more reliable than metaphors in Japanese pain descriptions
Language and CognitionJapanese patients often describe their pain with ideophones (sound-symbolic, imitative words), such as biribiri ‘having a continuous electric shock’. However, some manuals for healthcare workers recommend avoiding using these words in their interactions ...
Kimi Akita
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Size and shape ideophones in Nembe a phonosemantic analysis.pdf
Studies in African Linguistics, 1988 In Nembe, ideophones, as in symbolic words in all languages in general, there is direct connection between sounds and the meanings they convey. For Nembe ideophones describing the fields of size and shape.
Omen N. Maduka
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Literator, 2018 The meaning of words comes into play when words as units of translation are to be translated from one language into another. Lexical items that are extant in one language but not in others pose enormous problems for translators.
Mthikazi Rose Masubelele
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The “exotic” nature of ideophones –from Khoekhoe to Xhosa
Stellenbosch Papers in Linguistics, 2017 The present paper analyzes the exoticness of Khoekhoe-sourced ideophones as a possible factor that stimulated the introduction of certain phonological novelties to the sound system of Xhosa.
Andrason, Alexander
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Ideophones (Mimetics, Expressives) [PDF]
, 2019 Ideophones, also termed mimetics or expressives, are marked words that depict sensory imagery. They are found in many of the world’s languages, and sizable lexical classes of ideophones are particularly well-documented in the languages of Asia, Africa, and the Americas.
Akita, K., Dingemanse, M.
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Ideophones in Sena (Bantu, Mozambique)
Linguistic Typology at the CrossroadsBased on a recently collected fieldwork corpus, this paper offers an overview of ideophones in Sena, a Bantu language spoken along the Lower Zambezi River in central Mozambique.
Rozenn Guérois
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Collabra, 2016 Sound symbolism is increasingly understood as involving iconicity, or perceptual analogies and cross-modal correspondences between form and meaning, but the search for its functional and neural correlates is ongoing.
Gwilym Lockwood +2 more
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Revue des études slaves, 2018 The article discusses the use of particular forms, ‘verbal interjections’, in Russian and Serbian. These forms fall somewhere in between the interjections and verbs and occupy a distinct place in the grammatical systems of these inflected languages.
Irina Kor Chahine, Tanja Milosavljevic
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In the shadows of gratitude: On mooded spaces of vulnerability and care
Ethos, Volume 52, Issue 1, Page 20-36, March 2024.Abstract Gratitude is a ubiquitous phenomenon in everyday social interactions, yet it has received relatively little attention within anthropology. Past approaches to gratitude have focused on its practical expressions within exchange relationships. In contrast, this article considers the phenomenology of gratitude as a moral mood.
Jason Danely
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