The Two Meanings of Sound Symbolism
This article deals with sound symbolism and the ways to interpret sound symbolic phenomena. Sound symbolism appears to be a universal phenomenon but linguists tend to neglect it or offer heterogeneous approaches and definitions. This paper is concerned with the role of motivation, as assumed in case...
Main Author: | Elsen Hilke |
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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De Gruyter
2017-10-01
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Series: | Open Linguistics |
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Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.1515/opli-2017-0024 |
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