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The indigenization of Ghanaian Pidgin English
World Englishes, Volume 43, Issue 1, Page 182-202, March 2024.Abstract In the world Englishes literature, ‘indigenization’ is shorthand for the localization of Outer Circle Englishes in former exploitation colonies like Ghana. However, the localization of Ghanaian English has been continually reversed by ‘corrective’ realignment with world standard English through institutional regimes.
Kofi Yakpo
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Description des idéophones en tupuri
AkofenaRésumé : Les idéophones sont des mots permettant d’exprimer une idée dans une langue. Tout comme dans beaucoup de langues africaines, les idéophones sont très productifs en tupuri. Cependant, peu de travaux se sont intéressés à cette catégorie de mots. L’
BABA ATEMGA NDOUWE
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Ideophones and sound symbolism in Northern Amis (Austronesian)
Linguistic Typology at the CrossroadsThis is a study of ideophones in Northern Amis, an East Formosan, Austronesian language of Taiwan. Ideophones depict sensory experiences, and they generally have the same phonological and phonotactic properties as other lexemes; however, some ideophones ...
Isabelle Bril
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Ideophones in Kambaata (Cushitic): Grammar, meaning and use
Linguistic Typology at the CrossroadsIn the literature on Cushitic languages, ideophones have often only been treated in a cursory manner. A little explored problem of the synchronic analysis concerns their word class status: do they constitute a word class on their own, or should they be ...
Yvonne Treis
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A Note on Setswana Onomatopoeia
Studies in African Linguistics, 2023 The Setswana language, like other African languages, has a rich word class category of onomatopoeia that are derived from diverse sound sources in the environment of the speakers. Onomatopoeia are sounds imitations.
Andy Chebanne
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Folk definitions of ideophones
Field manual volume 13(pp. 24-29).Nijmegen: Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics., 2010 Ideophones are marked words that depict sensory events, for example English hippety-hoppety ‘in a limping and hobbling manner’ or Siwu mukumuku ‘mouth movements of a toothless person eating’. They typically have special sound patterns and distinct grammatical properties.
Dingemanse, M.
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Cognitive LinguisticsIdeophones are marked words which depict sensory imagery and are usually considered iconic by native speakers (i.e., ideophones sound like what they mean). Owing to shared cross-linguistic characteristics of expressive prosody, reduplication, and unusual
Thompson Arthur Lewis +3 more
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Iconic prosody enhances the depictive power of ideophones
Language and CognitionProsody not only signals the speaker’s cognitive states but can also imitate various concepts. However, previous studies on the latter, the iconic function of prosody, have mostly analyzed novel words and nonlinguistic vocalizations.
Kimi Akita, Shigeto Kawahara
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Figurative Interpretation of Sound in the Heroic Epic Poetry of Peoples of Siberia
Известия Уральского федерального университета. Серия 2: Гуманитарные науки, 2022 The authors of the article analyse the specifics of the depiction of sound and music in the heroic epic poetry of peoples of Siberia, who have preserved their epic tradition until recently. The authors refer to a number of epic texts by Altaians, Buryats,
Evgeniya Nikolaevna Kuzmina +1 more
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Ideophones: honing in on a descriptive and typological concept
Linguistic Typology at the CrossroadsThis paper introduces the special issue of Linguistic Typology at the Crossroads, entitled “Ideophones: honing in on a descriptive and typological concept”, edited by Aimée Lahaussois, Julie Marsault and Yvonne Treis.
Julie Marsault +2 more
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