System-internal and system-external phonic expressivity
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Brian D. Joseph
Abstract
The expressive function of language as realized phonically is explored here through an examination of the major role that affricates play in various Balkan languages, but especially Greek and Albanian, in marking words as showing emotion, affect, color, and similar sorts of expressive dimensions. Moreover, it is argued that language contact is an important causal factor here, in part through the enhancement of already existing tendencies in the languages in question and in part through the recognition that system-external elements can have an “exotic” character and thus can be especially suitable for participating in phonic expressivity.
Abstract
The expressive function of language as realized phonically is explored here through an examination of the major role that affricates play in various Balkan languages, but especially Greek and Albanian, in marking words as showing emotion, affect, color, and similar sorts of expressive dimensions. Moreover, it is argued that language contact is an important causal factor here, in part through the enhancement of already existing tendencies in the languages in question and in part through the recognition that system-external elements can have an “exotic” character and thus can be especially suitable for participating in phonic expressivity.
Chapters in this book
- Prelim pages i
- Table of contents v
- Preface and acknowledgements vii
- Introduction ix
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Part I. Iconicity in language
- Modality-specificity of iconicity 3
- The relationship between iconicity and systematicity in Korean ideophones 21
- Iconicity of Telugu ideophones and full word reduplications 39
- Morphosyntactic integration of ideophones in Japanese and Korean 57
- Pathways of de-iconization 75
- System-internal and system-external phonic expressivity 105
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Part II. Iconicity in literature
- On the expressive and iconic value of enjambment from Homer to Milton 125
- Language that thinks us 137
- Levels of iconicity in classical and modern English-language haiku 153
- Salman Rushdie’s iconic syntax and its translation into French 167
- Heart without ‘ the ’ 183
- Crisscrossing James Joyce’s Ulysses 199
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Part III. Iconicity in visual media
- Show me how you feel 213
- In the kingdom of shadows 231
- Iconicity in branding 245
- Resemblance metaphors and embodiment as iconic markers in medical understanding and communication by non-experts 265
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Part IV. Iconicity in semiotic analysis
- The cognitive function of iconicity 293
- The iconic, indexical, and symbolic in language 307
- INDEX 327
Chapters in this book
- Prelim pages i
- Table of contents v
- Preface and acknowledgements vii
- Introduction ix
-
Part I. Iconicity in language
- Modality-specificity of iconicity 3
- The relationship between iconicity and systematicity in Korean ideophones 21
- Iconicity of Telugu ideophones and full word reduplications 39
- Morphosyntactic integration of ideophones in Japanese and Korean 57
- Pathways of de-iconization 75
- System-internal and system-external phonic expressivity 105
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Part II. Iconicity in literature
- On the expressive and iconic value of enjambment from Homer to Milton 125
- Language that thinks us 137
- Levels of iconicity in classical and modern English-language haiku 153
- Salman Rushdie’s iconic syntax and its translation into French 167
- Heart without ‘ the ’ 183
- Crisscrossing James Joyce’s Ulysses 199
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Part III. Iconicity in visual media
- Show me how you feel 213
- In the kingdom of shadows 231
- Iconicity in branding 245
- Resemblance metaphors and embodiment as iconic markers in medical understanding and communication by non-experts 265
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Part IV. Iconicity in semiotic analysis
- The cognitive function of iconicity 293
- The iconic, indexical, and symbolic in language 307
- INDEX 327
