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'...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Nuckolls, Janis B.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : Oxford University Press, 1996.
Colección:Oxford studies in anthropological linguistics ; 2.
Temas:
Quechua language > Onomatopoeic words.
Quechua language > Aspect.
Quechua language > Ecuador > Pastaza (Province)
Quechua (Langue) > Onomatopées.
Quechua (Langue) > Aspect.
Quechua (Langue) > Équateur > Pastaza (Province)
FOREIGN LANGUAGE STUDY > Native American Languages.
Quechua language
Ecuador > Pastaza (Province)
Language
South America
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Abbreviations and Symbols; I: Sound-Symbolic Grammar and Performance; 1 Introduction; 2 The Theoretical Dimensions of Aspect; 3 The Grammatical Ecology of Aspect in Pastaza Quechua; 4 The Performative Expression of Durativity and Perfectivity; 5 Sound-Symbolic Involvement; 6 Signs of Life in Sound; II: The Sound-Symbolic Construction of Spatiotemporal Experience; 7 Sound-Symbolic Iconicity and Grammar; 8 Sound-Symbolic Contrasts of Sensible Experience; 9 Sound Symbols of Contact and Penetration; 10 Sound Symbols of Opening and Closing; 11 Sound Symbols of Falling.

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