Phono-semantically Motivated Lexical Patterns: Evidence from English and Modern Greek. [PDF]
, 2007 Generally, linguistic theory assumes that the association between sound and meaning is essentially arbitrary: a meaning can theoretically be represented by almost any set of sounds in a language.
Mela-Athanasopoulou, Elizabeth
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, 2022 Sound symbolism is primarily associated with onomatopoeias, i.e. words imitating any sound from nature while their sound composition resembles it. Onomatopoeias can be similar in different languages, e.g. feeding in Croatian (njam njam), Polish (mniam mniam) and Bulgarian (am am).
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Visual Arts, Insecurity and an Elusive Peace in Casamance, Senegal
International Journal of Art &Design Education, EarlyView.Abstract The separatist rebellion in Casamance, southern Senegal, has driven what is arguably the longest‐running intra‐state conflict in West Africa. Spanning over four decades, it has affected successive generations through insecurity (including armed violence and landmine use); economic disruption; trauma; human displacement (both internal and into ...
Martin Evans
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TEACHING SOUND SYMBOLISM THROUGH JAPANESE POP CULTURE. A RESPONSE TO KAWAHARA (2018)
, 2023 Duccio Piccardi
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Phonaesthemes and sound symbolism in Swedish brand names
Ampersand, 2015 This study examines the prevalence of sound symbolism in Swedish brand names. A general principle of brand name design is that effective names should be distinctive, recognizable, easy to pronounce and meaningful.
Åsa Abelin
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Painting with sound: the kaleidoscopic world of Lance Sieveking, a British Radio Modernist [PDF]
, 2013 In the late 1920s, British Radio became briefly and creatively entwined with a broader modernist culture. Largely through a series of spectacular programmes such as The Kaleidoscope (1928), made by the producer Lance Sieveking, the BBC started to develop
Hendy, D J
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Old Skool Spinning and Syncing: Memory, Technologies, and Occupational Membership in a DJ Community
Journal of Management Studies, EarlyView.Abstract We show how technology and its temporal instantiations act as material‐relational mnemonic devices that provide temporal anchors for collective remembering in occupations and form the basis of what we call an 'occupational mnemonic community'.
Hamid Foroughi +2 more
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Seeing and tasting the divine: Simeon Solomon’s homoerotic sacrament [PDF]
, 2010 Book synopsis: Should sight trump the other four senses when experiencing and evaluating art? Art, History and the Senses: 1830 to the Present questions whether the authority of the visual in 'visual culture' should be deconstructed, and focuses on the ...
Janes, Dominic
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Are words easier to learn from infant- than adult-directed speech? A quantitative corpus-based investigation [PDF]
, 2017 We investigate whether infant-directed speech (IDS) could facilitate word form learning when compared to adult-directed speech (ADS). To study this, we examine the distribution of word forms at two levels, acoustic and phonological, using a large ...
Cristia, Alejandrina +6 more
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Organizational Soundscapes and the Sonicity of Voices: The Power of the ‘Sounds’ that Carry ‘Words’
Journal of Management Studies, EarlyView.Abstract Organizations are soundscapes – they resonate with sounds and particularly the sounds of voices. Somehow however voice sonics, that is the sounds of voices and not the words carried on those sounds, have escaped attention in management studies. This absence of analysis is peculiar given voice sonics' undoubted influence on management (they may
Nancy Harding, Jackie Ford
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