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This volume investigates the methods and techniques used for studying expressivity in language, particularly in language documentation settings. The chapters explore a variety of different expressive items from a wide range of languages, focusing on the question of how to 'capture' expressivity in language and culture.
List of contents
- 1: Jeffrey P. Williams: Introduction
- Part I. Contexts
- 2: Christa Kilian-Hatz: Ideophones: How the world speaks to us
- 3: Håkan Lundström and Jan-Olof Svantesson: Expressives in Kuanmu singing
- Part II. Methods
- 4: Iraide Ibarretxe-Antuñano: Eliciting ideophones in the field: The IdEus-Psylex stimuli collection
- 5: Bonnie McLean and Mark Dingemanse: Diversifying the toolkit for documentary research on ideophones
- 6: Nicolau Dols and Pere Garau: Detecting and analysing expressives in a language corpus
- 7: Janis Nuckolls and Tod Swanson: Empathy and indirect methods for fieldwork with ideophones in Pastaza and Upper Napo Kichwa
- 8: Olivier Le Guen and Rodrigo Petatillo Chan: Documenting stealth lexicon: Field methods to collect the use of ideophones in Yucatec Maya
- 9: Kimi Akita: Studying Japanese mimetics
- Part III. Techniques
- 10: Harshit Parmar and Jeffrey P. Williams: Is there an aesthetic component of language?
- 11: Nathan Badenoch: Learning to learn expressives: Finding cultural salience in linguistic fieldwork
About the author
Jeffrey P. Williams is Professor of Ethnology and Linguistics at Texas Tech University, having previously held positions at the University of Sydney, Vanderbilt University, and Cleveland State University. His research is wide ranging and covers topics such as language contact, English dialectology, expressivity in grammar, neurolinguistics, and language documentation and endangerment.
Summary
This volume investigates the methods and techniques used for studying expressivity in language, particularly in language documentation settings. The chapters explore a variety of different expressive items from a wide range of languages, focusing on the question of how to 'capture' expressivity in language and culture.
