Onomatopoeia and relevance : communication of impressions via sound /

This book aims to provide an account of both what and how onomatopoeia communicate by applying ideas from the relevance theoretic framework of utterance interpretation. It focuses on two main aspects of the topic: the contribution that onomatopoeia make to communication and the nature of multimodal...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Sasamoto, Ryoko (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan, [2019]
Series:Palgrave studies in sound.
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Table of Contents:
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. Onomatopoeia and sound symbolism
  • 3. Onomatopoeia, the showing-saying continuum, and perceptual resemblance
  • 4. Semantics and pragmatics of onomatopoeia
  • 5. Synaesthesia, onomatopoeia, and food writing
  • 6. Onomatopoeia and the showing-saying of Japanese culture
  • 7. Onomatopoeia and translation: A corpus approach
  • 8. Conclusion
  • Bibliography
  • Index.