Advances in the Cross-Linguistic Study of Ideophones
By Mark Dingemanse. Language and Linguistics Compass, 2012
376 citations recorded by the source corpus.
Ideophones are marked words that depict sensory imagery found in many of the world’ sl anguages. They are noted for their special forms, distinct grammatical behaviour, rich sensory meanings, and interactional uses related to experience and evidentiality. This review surveys recent developments in ideophone research. Work on the semiotics of ideophones helps explain why they are marked and how they realise the depictive potential of speech. A true semantic typology of ideophone systems is coming within reach through a combination of language-internal analyses and language-independent elicitation tools. Documentation of ideophones in a wide variety of genres as well as sequential analysis of ideophone use in natural discourse leads to new insights about their interactional uses and about their relation to other linguistic devices like reported speech and grammatical evidentials. As the study of ideophones is coming of age, it sheds new light on what is possible and probable in human language.
Subfields: Experimental and Cognitive Psychology
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In Experimental and Cognitive Psychology
- Harald Hammarström
- Morten H. Christiansen
- Chris F. Westbury
- Mark Dingemanse
- Penny M. Pexman
- David M. Sidhu
- Geoff Hollis
- Damián E. Blasi
Citations in the corpus
- Sound–meaning association biases evidenced across thousands of languages (2016, background): “For instance, ideophones—a class of words found in many languages—convey a communicative function (or meaning) through the depiction of sensory imagery (4).”
- Ideophones and gesture in everyday speech (2013, background): “As argued in more detail elsewhere (Dingemanse, 2012), the position of ideophones (at clause edges, often set off with an intonational break), their structural markedness, their expressive morphology and their prosodic foregrounding all conspire to serve this goal.”
- Weighing up the evidence for sound symbolism: Distributional properties predict cue strength (2017, background): “The notion that low frequency cues carry more sound symbolic weight also has some precedence in the research on ideophones (for a review see Dingemanse, 2012). These are iconic words present in many languages (though uncommon in IndoEuropean languages) that depict various sensory events. This is oft”