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Expressives in the South Asian Linguistic Area offers the first comprehensive account of this important understudied word class from synchronic, diachronic, literary, and descriptive perspectives. The work contains studies from the four major language families of South Asia (Indo-Aryan, Dravidian, Austroasiatic, Tibeto-Burman) and covers domains in semantics, morphosyntax, and phonotactics. It also includes studies from literature and film that show how expressive form and function are embedded in performative contexts. Finally, the volume also contains first of its kind data from several small endangered languages from the region. Proposing an innovative methodology that combines structural and semiotic analysis, the volume advances a more holistic understanding of areal phenomena that departs from previous studies of the South Asian linguistic area.

South Asia --- Languages --- Ideophone. --- Mimetic words. --- Semantics. --- Morphology.

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This volume explores new frontiers in the linguistic study of iconic lexemes known as ideophones, mimetics, and expressives. A large part of the literature on this long-neglected word class has been dedicated to the description of its sound symbolism, marked morphophonology, and grammatical status in individual languages. Drawing on data from Asian (especially Japanese), African, American, and European languages, the twelve chapters in this volume aim to establish common grounds for theoretical and crosslinguistic discussions of the phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics, pragmatics, acquisition, and variation of iconic lexemes. Not only researchers who are interested in linguistic iconicity but also theoretical linguists and typologists will benefit from the updated insights presented in each study.

Iconicity (Linguistics) --- Visual communication. --- Mimetic words. --- Language and languages --- Onomatopoeia --- Graphic communication --- Imaginal communication --- Pictorial communication --- Communication --- Iconism (Linguistics) --- Icons (Linguistics) --- Linguistics --- Semiotics --- Mimetic words --- Visual communication --- E-books

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We are fascinated by what words sound like. This fascination also drives us to search for meaning in sound - thereby contradicting the principle of the arbitrariness of the linguistic sign. Phonesthemes, onomatopoeia or rhyming compounds all share the property of carrying meaning by virtue of what they sound like, simply because language users establish an association between form and meaning. By drawing on a wide array of examples, ranging from conventionalized words and expressions to brand names and slogans, this book offers a comprehensive account of the role that sound symbolism and rhyme/alliteration plays in English, and by doing so, advocates a more relaxed view of the category 'morpheme' that is able to incorporate less regular word-formation processes.

English language --- Onomatopoeia. --- Sound symbolism. --- Phonetic symbolism --- Phonosemantics --- Symbolism, Phonetic --- Grammar, Comparative and general --- Psycholinguistics --- Semiotics --- Symbolism --- Synesthesia --- Language and languages --- Sound symbolism --- Sounds, Words for --- Mimetic words --- Onomatopoeic words. --- Phonology --- Germanic languages --- Onomatopoeia --- Onomatopoeic words