Onomatopoeia and Relevance: Communication of Impressions via Sound

by Ryoko Sasamoto

Overview

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

ISBN-13:	9783030263188
Publisher:	Palgrave Macmillan
Publication date:	10/17/2019
Series:	Palgrave Studies in Sound
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
File size:	9 MB

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.

Table 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.

What People are Saying About This

From the Publisher

“This is a beautifully-written, thought-provoking book and a timely welcome addition to the literature on this subject. In particular, Sasamoto provides a welcome antidote to the plethora of publications that adopt what is known as a ‘sound-symbolism’ view of onomatopoeia and iconicity generally: the entirely circular view that, ultimately, sounds are symbolic or iconic of something because they are. Everyone interested in language and communication should read it.” (Tim Wharton, University of Brighton, UK)