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Translating English Sound Symbolism in Italian Comics: A Corpus-Based Linguistic Analysis across Six Decades (1932–1992)

open access: yesArts, 2020
Linking interdisciplinarity and multimodality in translation studies, this paper will analyse the diachronic translation of English ideophones in Italian Disney comics. This is achieved thanks to the compiling of a bi-directional corpus of sound symbolic
Pier Simone Pischedda
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Relative Chaoticity of Natural Languages

open access: yesComplexity, Volume 2026, Issue 1, 2026.
This paper presents a novel approach to analyzing and grouping natural languages based on the degree of their chaoticity. It clusters 52 languages from 18 language families, according to the value of the entropy–complexity pair, to reveal the chaotic properties of semantic trajectories.
Assel S. Yerbolova   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

Food and Relatedness From Past to Present in the Arbëreshë Community of Molise. The Evolving Power of Food Gifts as Binding Agents After 1960s Industrialization

open access: yesCulture, Agriculture, Food and Environment, Volume 47, Issue 2, December 2025.
ABSTRACT This article investigates how the changing value of food due to the transition from famine to abundance after industrialization in the 1960s generated a shift in sociality and ways of being together in the Arbëreshë community, who immigrated to Molise during the sixteenth century.
Elisa Pastorelli
wiley   +1 more source

THE ONOMATOPOEIA IN ROBERT VENDETTI’S COMIC “THE FLASH” [PDF]

open access: yes, 2016
This research studied about the onomatopoeia in Robert Vendetti’s comic “The Flash”. The aims of this research was to find the kinds of onomatopoeia that are used by the author in The Flash comics and to know the lexical and contextual meanings of those ...
Muin, Abd.   +2 more
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The Translatability of Poetry: Phonaesthesia, Sound Iconicity, Orchestration, and Aesthetic Function. A Case Study of Poe’s The Raven

open access: yesAmerican, British and Canadian Studies Journal, 2022
When asked whether all texts are translatable, Roman Jakobson answered: “yes, to a certain extent” (qtd. in Hatim and Munday 16). Poetry in particular is notoriously difficult to translate due to its complexity and intricacies of form and meaning, on the
Creangă Maria-Teodora
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Chinese Verb Frames in Primary Education: From Basic Communication to Cognitive Complexity

open access: yesInternational Journal of Applied Linguistics, Volume 35, Issue 4, Page 2301-2316, November 2025.
ABSTRACT This article investigates text complexity in Chinese‐language textbooks for primary school students (Grades 1 to 6) in Hong Kong. Our analysis, based on verb frames in Mandarin VerbNet, shows a developmental shift in the linguistic input in first language (L1) education: Students begin with a focus on core frame elements in lower grades and ...
Tianyuan Cai   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Towards a Fregean psycholinguistics

open access: yesAnalytic Philosophy, Volume 66, Issue 3, Page 349-371, September 2025.
Abstract This paper is partly exegetical, partly systematic. I argue that Frege's account of what he called “colouring” contains some important insights on how communication is related to mental states such as mental images or emotions. I also show that the Fregean perspective is supported by current research in psycholinguistics and that a full ...
Thorsten Sander
wiley   +1 more source

The Onomatopoeia in "Super Secret" Webtoon Comic (Linguistic Approach)

open access: yes, 2018
this research discussed about the onomatopoeia which aimed to find out the kinds of onomatopoeia and to describe the contextual meaning of those onomatopoeia words in super-secret webtoon comic.xi, 41 hlm : ilus ; 28 ...
Santriawati
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Korean onomatopoeia and mimesis [PDF]

open access: yes, 2010
In this thesis the onomatopoeias and mimeses in Korean are analyzed. The question of a classification of onomatopoeia and mimeses as some part of speech is discussed after the definition of onomatopoeias and mimeses.
Ferklová, Blanka
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Iconic Words Are Associated With Iconic Gestures

open access: yesCognitive Science, Volume 49, Issue 8, August 2025.
Abstract Iconicity ratings studies have established that there are many English words which native speakers judge as “iconic,” that is, as sounding like what they mean. Here, we explore whether these iconic English words are more likely to be accompanied by iconic gestures.
Ell Wilding   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

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