31.3376, Books: Ideophones and the Evolution of Language: Haiman

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Date: Tue, 03 Nov 2020 20:11:38
From: Rachel Tonkin [rtonkin at cambridge.org]
Subject: Ideophones and the Evolution of Language: Haiman

 


Title: Ideophones and the Evolution of Language 
Publication Year: 2020 
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
	   http://cambridge.org
	

Book URL: https://www.cambridge.org/us/academic/subjects/languages-linguistics/phonetics-and-phonology/ideophones-and-evolution-language?format=PB 


Author: John Haiman

Paperback: ISBN:  9781107695030 Pages:  Price: U.S. $ 35.99
Paperback: ISBN:  9781107695030 Pages:  Price: U.K. £ 26.99
Paperback: ISBN:  9781107695030 Pages:  Price: Europe EURO 31.50


Abstract:

Ideophones have been recognized in modern linguistics at least since 1935, but
they still lie far outside the concerns of mainstream (Western) linguistic
debate, in part because they are most richly attested in relatively unstudied
(often unwritten) languages. The evolution of language, on the other hand, has
recently become a fashionable topic, but all speculations so far have been
almost totally data-free. Without disputing the tenet that there are no
primitive languages, this book argues that ideophones may be an atavistic
throwback to an earlier stage of communication, where sounds and gestures were
paired in what can justifiably be called a 'prelinguistic' fashion. The
structure of ideophones may also provide answers to deeper questions, among
them how communicative gestures may themselves have emerged from practical
actions. Moreover, their current distribution and behaviour provide hints as
to how they may have become conventional words in languages with conventional
rules.

1. The gestural origin theory of language genesis; 2. What are ideophones?; 3.
Lexical origins of ideophones; 4. Suiting the word to the action: oral
charades; 5. Ideophones as a possible solution to the ritualization problem;
6. Taming ideophones: from showing to telling; 7. Repetition in the genesis of
signs, art, and ideophones.
 



Linguistic Field(s): Historical Linguistics
                     Phonetics
                     Phonology


Written In: English  (eng)

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