Onomatopoeia and Relevance - Communication of Impressions via Sound

This book aims to provide an account of both what and how onomatopoeia communicate by applying ideas from the relevance theoretic framework of utterance interpretation.  It focuses on two main aspects of the topic:  the contribution that onomatopoeia make to communication and the nature of multimodal communication.  This is applied in three domains (food discourse, visual culture in Asia and translation) in the final sections of the book. It will be of interest to scholars working in the fields of pragmatics, semantics, cognitive linguistics, stylistics, philosophy of language, literature, translation, and Asian studies.

List of contents

Chapter 1: Introduction.- Chapter 2: Onomatopoeia and Sound Symbolism.- Chapter 3: Onomatopoeia, the Showing-Saying Continuum, and Perceptual Resemblance.- Chapter 4: Semantics and Pragmatics of Onomatopoeia.- Chapter 5: Synaesthesia, Onomatopoeia and Food Writing.- Chapter 6: Onomatopoeia and the Showing-Saying of Japanese Culture.- Chapter 7: Onomatopoeia and Translation: A Corpus Appraoch.- Chapter 8: Conclusion.

About the author

Ryoko Sasamoto is Associate Professor in the School of Applied Language and Intercultural Studies (SALIS) and a member of Centre for Translation and Textual Studies at Dublin City University, Ireland.

Summary

This book aims to provide an account of both what and how onomatopoeia communicate by applying ideas from the relevance theoretic framework of utterance interpretation.  It focuses on two main aspects of the topic:  the contribution that onomatopoeia make to communication and the nature of multimodal communication.  This is applied in three domains (food discourse, visual culture in Asia and translation) in the final sections of the book. It will be of interest to scholars working in the fields of pragmatics, semantics, cognitive linguistics, stylistics, philosophy of language, literature, translation, and Asian studies.

Product details

• Authors: Ryoko Sasamoto
• Publisher: Springer, Berlin
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.11.2019
• EAN: 9783030263171
• ISBN: 978-3-0-3026317-1
• No. of pages: 259
• Dimensions: 157 mm x 213 mm x 21 mm
• Weight: 486 g
• Illustrations: XVI, 259 p. 12 illus.
• Series: Palgrave Studies in Sound
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Psychology > Miscellaneous; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Medicine > Clinical medicine; B, Linguistics, Science, Psychology, Behavioral Sciences and Psychology, Behavioral Science and Psychology, Psychology, general, Psycholinguistics and Cognitive Lingusitics, Psycholinguistics, Phonetics, phonology, neuropsychology, Phonology and Phonetics, Phonology, Mathematics and Computing, Cognitive grammar, Cognitive Linguistics, Cognitive studies, Mathematics & science, Science, multidisciplinary