Sound-symbolism occurs when words resemble the sounds associated with the phenomena they attempt to describe, rather than an arbitrary representation. For example the word raven is arbitrary in that it does not resemble a raven; cuckoo , however, is sound -symbolic in that it resembles the bird's call. In Sounds Like Life , Janis Nuckolls studies the occurrence of sound-symbolic words in Pastaza Quechua (a dialect of Quechua), which is spoken in eastern Ecuador. The use of sound-symbolic words is much more prevalent in ...
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Sound-symbolism occurs when words resemble the sounds associated with the phenomena they attempt to describe, rather than an arbitrary representation. For example the word raven is arbitrary in that it does not resemble a raven; cuckoo , however, is sound -symbolic in that it resembles the bird's call. In Sounds Like Life , Janis Nuckolls studies the occurrence of sound-symbolic words in Pastaza Quechua (a dialect of Quechua), which is spoken in eastern Ecuador. The use of sound-symbolic words is much more prevalent in Pastaza Quechua than in any other language, and they symbolize a wider range of sensory perceptions including sounds, rhythms, and visual patterns. Nuckolls uses discourse data from everyday contexts to demonstrate the Quechua speakers' elaborate schematic perceptual structure to describe experience through sound-symbolic language. With words for contact with a surface, opening and closing, falling, sudden realizations, and moving through water and space, Nuckolls finds that sound-symbolism is integral to the Quechua speakers' way of thinking about and expressing their experience of the world.
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UsedVery Good. Hardcover; light fading, light shelf wear to exterior; otherwise contents i n very good condition with clean text, firm binding. Dust jacket, fading an d shelf wear. Product Description All languages feature sound symbolism, wh ich occurs when the form of a linguistic utterance resembles in some way wh at it describes or refers to. Onomatopoeic words, such as thump and whack, are a couple of examples from English. For English speakers and other weste rners, however, sound symbolism is relegated to whimsical styles of speech and writing. In Sounds Like Life, Janis Nuckolls argues that sound symbolis m is integrated with the grammar of Pastaza Quechua, a dialect spoken in ea stern Ecuador.
