Sounds Like Life: Sound-Symbolic Grammar, Performance, and Cognition in Pastaza

Description: Sound-symbolism occurs when words resemble the sounds associated with the phenomena they attempt to describe, rather than an arbitrary representation. For example the word raven is arbitrary in that it does not resemble a raven; cuckoo, however, is sound -symbolic in that it resembles the bird's call.In Sounds Like Life, Janis Nuckolls studies the occurrence of sound-symbolic words in Pastaza Quechua (a dialect of Quechua), which is spoken in eastern Ecuador. The use of sound-symbolic words is much more prevalent in Pastaza Quechua than in any other language, and they symbolize a wider range of sensory perceptions including sounds, rhythms, and visual patterns. Nuckolls uses discourse data from everyday contexts to demonstrate the Quechua speakers' elaborate schematic perceptual structure to describe experience through sound-symbolic language. With words for contact with a surface, opening and…condition info: Has a sturdy binding with some shelf wear. May have light markings on pages.

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EAN: 9780195089851

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Number of Pages: 312 Pages

Language: English

Publication Name: Sounds like Life : Sound-Symbolic Grammar, Performance, and Cognition in Pastaza Quechua

Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated

Publication Year: 1996

Subject: Native American Languages, Linguistics / General

Item Height: 1.2 in

Item Weight: 22.4 Oz

Type: Language Course

Subject Area: Foreign Language Study, Language Arts & Disciplines

Author: Janis B. Nuckolls

Item Length: 6.4 in

Series: Oxford Studies in Anthropological Linguistics Ser.

Item Width: 9.6 in

Format: Hardcover