Redrawing the margins of language: Lessons from research on ideophones
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- Mark Dingemanse
- Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, 6500 AH Nijmegen
Description
<jats:p>Ideophones (also known as expressives, mimetics or onomatopoeia) have been systematically studied in linguistics since the 1850s, when they were first described as a lexical class of vivid sensory words in West-African languages. This paper surveys the research history of ideophones, from its roots in African linguistics to its fruits in language description and linguistic theory around the globe. It shows that despite a recurrent narrative of marginalization, scholars working on ideophones have made important advances in our understanding of sensory language, iconicity, lexical typology, and morphosyntax. Due to their dual nature as vocal gestures that grow roots in linguistic systems, ideophones provide opportunities to reframe typological questions, reconsider the role of language ideology in linguistic scholarship, and rethink the margins of language. With ideophones increasingly being brought into the fold of the language sciences, this review synthesizes past theoretical insights and empirical findings in order to enable future work to build on them.</jats:p>
Journal
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- Glossa: a journal of general linguistics
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Glossa: a journal of general linguistics 3 (1), 4-, 2018-01-09
Open Library of the Humanities
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Details 詳細情報について
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- CRID
- 1363951795011053440
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- DOI
- 10.5334/gjgl.444
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- ISSN
- 23971835
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- Data Source
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- Crossref