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  Ideophones and the aesthetics of everyday language in a West-African society

Dingemanse, M. (2011). Ideophones and the aesthetics of everyday language in a West-African society. The Senses & Society, 6(1), 77-85. doi:10.2752/174589311X12893982233830.

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Dingemanse, Mark1, 2, 3, 4, 5, Author           
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1Language and Cognition Department, MPI for Psycholinguistics, Max Planck Society, Nijmegen, NL, ou_792548              
2Categories across Language and Cognition, MPI for Psycholinguistics, Max Planck Society, Nijmegen, NL, ou_55211              
3Human Sociality and Systems of Language Use, MPI for Psycholinguistics, Max Planck Society, ou_808546              
4Language documentation and data mining, ou_persistent22              
5Interactional Foundations of Language, MPI for Psycholinguistics, Max Planck Society, Nijmegen, NL, ou_745546              

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 Abstract: This article explores language, culture, and the perceptual world as reflected in a particular linguistic device: ideophones, marked words that depict sensory imagery. Data from a range of elicitation tasks shows that ideophones are a key resource in talking about sensory perception in Siwu. Their use in everyday conversations underlines their communicative versatility while at the same time showing that people delight in their expressiveness. In ideophones, we have an expressive resource that combines sheer playfulness with extraordinary precision

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Language(s): eng - English
 Dates: 2010-05-1420102011
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 Identifiers: DOI: 10.2752/174589311X12893982233830
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Title: The Senses & Society
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Pages: - Volume / Issue: 6 (1) Sequence Number: - Start / End Page: 77 - 85 Identifier: ISSN: 1745-8927