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Sound Symbolism in Basic Vocabulary
Entropy, 2010 The relationship between meanings of words and their sound shapes is to a large extent arbitrary, but it is well known that languages exhibit sound symbolism effects violating arbitrariness.
Søren Wichmann +2 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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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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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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Trees symbolism, conservation and threat in Guji Oromo, Southern Ethiopia
Cogent Social Sciences, 2021 This article aims at investigating origin of tree symbolism and the cultural events embedded within this symbolism among the Guji Oromo. The study has opted qualitative approach, descriptive research design, and method of data production like interview ...
Gemeda Odo Roba, Zhouxiang Lu
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The Two Meanings of Sound Symbolism
Open Linguistics, 2017 This article deals with sound symbolism and the ways to interpret sound symbolic phenomena. Sound symbolism appears to be a universal phenomenon but linguists tend to neglect it or offer heterogeneous approaches and definitions.
Hilke Elsen
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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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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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A Comparative Study of Social Symbolism in Nimayooshij’s & Mahdi Akhavansales’ Poetry After the 28th Mordad Coup D’etat In 1332 [PDF]
Matn/Pizhūhī-i Adabī, 2017 The present study aimed at comparing the degree by which the main features of Social Symbolism are presented in the 1330s poems of two well-known poets of this stream, namely, Nimayooshij and Mahdi Akhavansales.
Farshad Moradi, Sayed Ahmad Parsa
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