Onomatopoeia and Relevance Communication of Impressions via Sound /

• Main Author: Sasamoto, Ryoko (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2019.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2019.
• Series: Palgrave Studies in Sound,
• Subjects: Neuropsychology.; Psycholinguistics.; Phonology.; Cognitive grammar.; Psychology.; Science.; Phonology and Phonetics.; Cognitive Linguistics.; Psychology, general.; Science, multidisciplinary.

"This book provides an innovative and insightful analysis of onomatopoeia, and it is an original and convincing application of the relevance-theoretic pragmatic framework. It combines a strong theoretical argument with discussion of real-world examples and applications. I recommend it to anyone...

Table of Contents:

• Chapter 1: Introduction
• Chapter 2: Onomatopoeia and Sound Symbolism
• Chapter 3: Onomatopoeia, the Showing-Saying Continuum, and Perceptual Resemblance
• Chapter 4: Semantics and Pragmatics of Onomatopoeia
• Chapter 5: Synaesthesia, Onomatopoeia and Food Writing
• Chapter 6: Onomatopoeia and the Showing-Saying of Japanese Culture
• Chapter 7: Onomatopoeia and Translation: A Corpus Appraoch
• Chapter 8: Conclusion.