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What drives sound symbolism? Different acoustic cues underlie sound-size and sound-shape mappings
Scientific Reports, 2017 Sound symbolism refers to the non-arbitrary mappings that exist between phonetic properties of speech sounds and their meaning. Despite there being an extensive literature on the topic, the acoustic features and psychological mechanisms that give rise to
Klemens Knöferle +2 more
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Frontiers in Psychology, 2021 Recent evidence has shown linkages between actions and segmental elements of speech. For instance, close-front vowels are sound symbolically associated with the precision grip, and front vowels are associated with forward-directed limb movements.
Lari Vainio, Lari Vainio, Martti Vainio
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Sound symbolism facilitates interspecies communication between humans and domestic dogs (Canis familiaris) [PDF]
Scientific ReportsThe evolution of human communication likely centred, in part, on shared intuitions about the mapping of sound to meaning. These sound-meaning intuitions, known as sound symbolism, can be seen for example in the bouba-kiki effect, where nonsense words ...
A. T. Korzeniowska +3 more
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The sound symbolism bootstrapping hypothesis for language acquisition and language evolution [PDF]
Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 2014 Sound symbolism is a non-arbitrary relationship between speech sounds and meaning. We review evidence that, contrary to the traditional view in linguistics, sound symbolism is an important design feature of language, which affects online processing of ...
Mutsumi Imai, Sotaro Kita
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Sound symbolism is not "marginal" in Chinese: Evidence from diachronic rhyme books. [PDF]
PLoS ONEContrary to the widespread notion that linguistic signs are arbitrary, researchers have consistently demonstrated the existence of sound symbolism in language, providing evidence for non-arbitrariness in sound-meaning associations. However, much evidence
Yingying Meng, Yuwei Wan, Chunyu Kit
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The formation of the Freudian universal symbol: a historical perspective [PDF]
Frontiers in PsychologyThis paper emphasizes the significance of the Freudian universal symbol by examining the controversial period from 1909 to 1917, when psychoanalysts increasingly turn their attention to cultural elements such as myth and language.
Chuansong Huo, Chuansong Huo, Fei Ju
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Source of Symbols Inspiration in Tahereh Safarzadeh’s Poetry [PDF]
Matn/Pizhūhī-i Adabī, 2022 Symbolism was initiated by Nima Yushij, a contemporary poet. Symbolism sought to express the social and political problems of its age. Many poets were affected by his movement and Safarzadeh was not an exception.
Kativar Ziraksaz +3 more
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Časopis pro Právní Vědu a Praxi, 2022 An article discusses the use of special characters in the fine art, through which the author conveys deeper meaning of these characters to the observer. Use of special characters in the fine art is called symbolism.
Klára Jelínková
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Analyzing the compatibility of symbolism with the two bases of the originality of existence and the originality of essence [PDF]
حکمت معاصر, 2021 Symbolism in the field of metaphysics is a method that has always been considered and widely used in various religious and mystical and philosophical schools, as well as traditional arts such as Iranian Islamic art.
ahmad reza honari
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Current Opinion in Psychology, 2020 Recent research on social movements have shown the significant role protest symbols play in mobilizing action and constructing a shared identity for a group pressing for social change. The present article gives an overview of crowd and social movement theories that focus on how symbols form and maintain groups.
Sarah H Awad, Brady Wagoner
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