Chapter 6. Towards a semantic typological classification of motion ideophones

Ibarretxe-Antuñano, Iraide

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“…With more researchers now tackling the difficult task of documenting ideophone meanings (e.g. De Schryver 2009;Ibarretxe-Antuñano 2019;Nuckolls et al 2017;Nuckolls 2019;Osada et al 2019;Rhee and Koo 2017), this is a promising avenue for future research. However, there are likely to be some challenges along the way, which I discuss in the next section.…”

Section: Future Directions: Semantic Mapsmentioning

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Revising an implicational hierarchy for the meanings of ideophones, with special reference to Japonic

McLean

2020

Linguistic Typology

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An elicitation task was conducted with speakers of Japonic varieties to investigate whether stimuli of varying sensory modalities (e.g. audio, visual, tactile etc.) were more or less likely to elicit ideophones or iconic words. Stimuli representing sounds, movements, shapes and textures were most likely to elicit ideophones, and this is posited to reflect the relative ease or naturalness with which these domains can be mapped iconically to speech. The results mirror macro-level patterns of linguistic diversity, as these are also domains in which ideophones are most widely attested cross-linguistically. The findings call for the revision of a previously constructed implicational hierarchy for the semantic development of ideophone systems, adding to it the categories of FORM and TEXTURE as domains in which ideophones are most likely to develop, after SOUND and MOVEMENT. Independent evidence for the revised hierarchy comes from a semantic analysis of the elicited ideophones, where it was found that domains early in the hierarchy were more likely to be sources for semantic extension, while later domains were more likely to be targets. These findings are expected to be replicable for other languages, and offer exciting new directions for research into the semantic typology of ideophones.

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Section: Future Directions: Semantic Mapsmentioning

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Revising an implicational hierarchy for the meanings of ideophones, with special reference to Japonic

McLean

2020

Linguistic Typology

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“…Ideophones also feature in verbal art, where they make narratives (e.g. Baba 2003;Badenoch, Choksi, et al 2021;Lydall 2000;Noss 1970;Schaefer 2001); songs (Choksi 2020b;Ibarretxe-Antuñano 2017;Klassen 2000;Zide 1975); poems (Barrett, Webster, and Huumo 2014;Ibarretxe-Antuñano 2017;Kisku, Murmu, and Choksi 2020;Mphande 1992;Noss 1989;Nuckolls 2006;Webster 2008Webster , 2017; and even jokes (Bermúdez 2020;Lydall 2000;Samarin 1969) It is also a good idea to establish a collection of media (videos and pictures) of the things ideophones are used to depict, which can later become a resource for more targeted elicitation, or for the creation of dictionaries. This can be done alongside corpus building.…”

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A multi-methods toolkit for documentary research on ideophones

McLean,

Dingemanse

2024

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As lexicalized depictions, ideophones (also known as expressives or mimetics) differ fundamentally from other words both in the kinds of meanings they represent and the ways in which they represent them. This can make them difficult to capture using traditional methods for language description and documentation. We review some of the new and experimental techniques that have been used to elicit, describe, and analyse ideophones, and discuss how these can be used to address some of the unique challenges ideophones pose. They include stimulus-based elicitation; multimodal folk definitions; hybrid modes of analysis (combining images and text); and new ways of compiling and presenting multimodal ideophone corpora. We also review psycholinguistic methods for exploring the sensory properties of words and the organisation of the lexicon, such as sensory ratings and similarity judgment tasks, and discuss how these can contribute to our understanding of ideophone lexicons. Crucial to our approach is the combination of insights from multiple sources, the exploitation of polysemiotic resources (combining multiple modes of meaning making), and the integration of etic and emic perspectives. The discussion is structured around three key challenges: collecting ideophones, unravelling their slippery semantics, and representing them in ways that do justice to their special semiotic properties. The days when ideophones were just footnotes in grammars are long past. With more and more researchers working to document ideophones in languages around the world, and increasing interest in iconicity from across the language sciences, now is an excellent time to rethink the toolkit of documentary linguistics to make sure it can optimally deal with language in all its semiotic diversity.

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Modality-specificity of iconicity

Akita

2020

Iconicity in Language and Literature

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Chapter 6. Towards a semantic typological classification of motion ideophones

Cited by 4 publications

References 44 publications

Revising an implicational hierarchy for the meanings of ideophones, with special reference to Japonic

Revising an implicational hierarchy for the meanings of ideophones, with special reference to Japonic

A multi-methods toolkit for documentary research on ideophones

Modality-specificity of iconicity

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