Onomatopoeia
The Colorful World of Sounds
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Product details:
- Publisher Cambridge University Press
- Date of Publication 13 November 2025
- ISBN 9781009438018
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages420 pages
- Size 229x152x24 mm
- Weight 787 g
- Language English 772
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Short description:
Based on data from 124 languages, this book provides an exploration of onomatopoeia, revealing its unique features and universal patterns.
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How do languages capture and represent the sounds of the world? Is this a universal phenomenon? Drawing from data taken from 124 different languages, this innovative book offers a detailed exploration of onomatopoeia, that are imagic icons of sound events. It provides comprehensive analysis from both theoretical and empirical perspectives, and identifies the prototypical semiotic, phonological, morphological, syntactic, word-formation, and socio-pragmatic features of onomatopoeia. Supported with numerous examples from the sample languages, the book highlights the varied scope of onomatopoeia in different languages, its relationship to ideophones and interjections, and the role of sound symbolism, particularly phonesthemes, in onomatopoeia-formation. It introduces an onomasiological model of onomatopoeia-formation, identifies onomatopoeic patterns, and specifies the factors affecting the similarities and differences between onomatopoeias standing for the same sound event. Filling a major gap in language studies, it is essential reading for researchers and students of phonology, morphology, semiotics, poetics, and linguistic typology.
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List of figures; List of tables; Acknowledgments; Abbreviations; 1. Introduction; 2. Defining Onomatopoeia; 3. Onomatopoeias as linguistic signs; 4. Prototypical features of Onomatopoeia; 5. Onomatopoeia and sound symbolism; 6. Cross-linguistic Onomatopoeic patterns; 7. Richness of languages in Onomatopoeias by sound type and source; 8. Onomatopoeias vs. Ideophones; 9. Conclusion; Appendix 1 - DATA SHEET 1; Appendix 2 - DATA SHEET 2; References; Author index; Language index; Subject index.
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