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17 - Onomatopoeia

On the Crossroads of Sound Symbolism and Word Formation

from Part III - Corpus-Based Case Studies

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  18 September 2020

By
Lívia Körtvélyessy  and
Pavol Štekauer
Edited by
Lívia Körtvélyessy  and
Pavol Štekauer
Lívia Körtvélyessy
Affiliation:
P. J. Šafárik University, Košice, Slovakia
Pavol Štekauer
Affiliation:
P. J. Šafárik University, Košice, Slovakia
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Summary

This paper provides a contrastive analysis of English and Slovak onomatopoeia with regard to both its theoretical comprehension in two different linguistic traditions and its characteristics in two typologically different languages. The emphasis is on (i) the onomatopoeia-founded word-formation processes and (ii) the semantic characteristics of complex words derived from onomatopoeia. The latter will focus on the identification of metaphorical and metonymical shifts from the cognitive-semantic point of view. Our sample includes 120 Slovak and 115 English onomatopoetic words. In addition, we argue that (i) onomatopoeia differs from interjections and therefore should not be classified within this class of words, and (ii) the scope of onomatopoeia should not be extended beyond its inherent feature of being imitations of sounds by means of a language-specific system of phonemes. By implication, no complex word derived from onomatopoeia should be treated as genuine onomatopoeia.

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onomatopoeiaword-formationsemantics
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Complex Words
Advances in Morphology
 , pp. 335 - 361
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2020

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