Sounds like life: sound-symbolic grammar, performance, and cognition in pastaza quechua
Auteur :
Nuckolls, Janis B.
Éditeur :
Oxford University Press Inc
ISBN :
9780195089851
Date de publication :
19 sept. 1996
Dimensions :
24,4 x 16,3 x 3,0 cm
Poids :
635 g
Langue :
Anglais
Pays d'origine :
USA
Nuckolls studies the occurrence of sound-symbolic words - words that bear resemblance to phenomena they attempt to describe - in an Ecuadorian dialect of Quechua, a major South American language. She explores how the speakers describe everyday experience and how sound-symbolism is integral to their way of thinking and speaking.