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Sounds like life : sound-symbolic grammar, performance, and cognition in Pastaza Quechua /
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'...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York :
Oxford University Press,
1996.
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| Colección: | Oxford studies in anthropological linguistics ;
2. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | 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. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (xiv, 298 pages) : illustrations. |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 289-294) and index. |
| ISBN: | 1423736664 9781423736660 1601299850 9781601299857 9780195089851 0195089855 9786610443109 6610443106 |