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LINGUIST List 17.3467

Fri Nov 24 2006

Books: Phonology: Hinton, Nichols, Ohala (Eds)

Editor for this issue: Maria Moreno-Rollins <marialinguistlist.org>

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        1.    Joyce Reid, Sound Symbolism: Hinton, Nichols, Ohala (Eds)
Message 1: Sound Symbolism: Hinton, Nichols, Ohala (Eds)
Date: 15-Nov-2006
From: Joyce Reid <jreidcup.org>
Subject: Sound Symbolism: Hinton, Nichols, Ohala (Eds)


Title: Sound Symbolism
Published: 2006
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
                http://us.cambridge.org

Editor: Leanne Hinton
Editor: Johanna Nichols
Editor: John J Ohala
Paperback: ISBN: 0521026776 Pages: 383 Price: U.S. $ 58.00
Paperback: ISBN: 0521026776 Pages: 383 Price: U.K. £ 33.00
Abstract:

Sound symbolism is the study of the relationship between the sound of an
utterance and its meaning. In this interdisciplinary collection of new
studies, twenty-four leading scholars discuss the role of sound symbolism
in a theory of language. They consider sound symbolic processes in a wide
range of languages from Europe, Asia, Africa, Australia, and North and
South America. Beginning with an evocative typology of sound symbolic
processes, they go on to examine not only the well-known areas of study,
such as onomatopoeia and size sound symbolism, but also less frequently
discussed topics such as the sound symbolic value of vocatives and of
involuntary noises, and the marginal areas of 'conventional sound
symbolism', such as phonesthemes. The book concludes with a series of
studies on the biological basis of sound symbolism, and draws comparisons
with the communication systems of other species. This is a definitive work
on the role of sound symbolism in a theory of language.

"All of the papers are sources of tantalizing, testable hypotheses....of
considerable value and evidence of a welcome renewal of interest in some
very old questions." Journal of Linguistic Anthropology

List of contributors;
1. Introduction: Sound-symbolic processes Leanne Hinton, Johanna Nichols,
John Ohala;
Part I. Native American Languages North of Mexico:
2. Symbolism in Nez Perce Haruo Aoki;
3. Nootkan vocative vocalism and its implications William H. Jacobsen Jr;
4. Relative motivation in denotational and indexical sound symbolism of
Wasco-Wishram Chinookan Michael Silverstein;
Part II. Native Languages of Latin America:
5. Symbolism and change in the sound system of Huastec Terrence Kaufman;
6. Evidence for pervasive synesthetic sound symbolism in ethnozoological
nomenclature Brent Berlin;
7. Noise words in Guaraní Margaret Langdon;
Part III. Asia:
8. i: big a: small Gerard Diffloth;
9. Tone, intonation, and sound symbolism in Lahu: loading the syllable
canon James A. Matisoff;
10. An experimental investigation into phonetic symbolism as it relates to
Mandarin Chinese Randy J. Lapolla;
11. Palatalization in Japanese sound symbolism Shoko Hamano;
Part IV. Australia and Africa:
12. Yir-Yiront ideophones Barry Alpher;
13. African ideophones G. Tucker Childs;
Part V. Europe:
14. Regular sound development, phonosymbolic orchestration, disambiguation
of homonyms Yakov Malkiel;
15. Modern Greek ts: beyond sound symbolism Brian D. Joseph;
16. On levels of analysis of sound symbolism in poetry, with an application
to Russian poetry Tom M. S. Priestly;
17. Finnish and Gilyak sound symbolism - the interplay between system and
history Robert Austerlitz;
Part VI. English:
18. Phonosyntactics Joan A. Sereno;
19. Aural images Richard Rhodes;
20. Inanimate imitatives in English Robert L. Oswalt;
Part VII. The Biological Bases of Sound Symbolism:
21. Some observations on the function of sound in clinical work Peter F.
Ostwald;
22. The frequency code underlies the sound-symbolic use of voice pitch John
J. Ohala;
23. Sound symbolism and its role in non-human vertebrate communication
Eugene S. Morton;
Index.


Linguistic Field(s): Phonology

Subject Language(s): Chinese, Mandarin (cmn)
                            Finnish (fin)
                            Greek (ell)
                            Huastec, Southeastern (hsf)
                            Lahu (lhu)
                            Nez Perce (nez)
                            Gilyak (niv)
                            Russian (rus)

Written In: English (eng )

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