36.1805, Books: Capturing Expressivity: Williams (ed.) (2025)

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Date: 10-Jun-2025
From: Rachel Havard [Rachel.HAVARD at oup.com]
Subject: Capturing Expressivity: Williams (ed.) (2025)


Title: Capturing Expressivity
Subtitle: Contexts, Methods, and Techniques for Linguistic Research
Publication Year: 2025

Publisher: Oxford University Press
           http://www.oup.com/us
Book URL:
https://global.oup.com/academic/product/capturing-expressivity-9780192858931?utm_source=linguistlist&utm_medium=listserv&utm_campaign=linguistics

Editor(s): Jeffrey P. Williams

Hardcover: 9780192858931

Abstract:

This volume investigates the methods and techniques used to
investigate expressivity, a term used to describe linguistic phenomena
that serve an expressive function and deliver sensory information
about an event, entity, or other culturally-determined category
through a set of grammatical resources. The study of expressivity has
gradually grown in stature over the last decade in particular; while
there are much earlier accounts of expressivity, particularly within
descriptive traditions of African, East Asian, and European
linguistics, modern linguistic theory has been rather slow to
incorporate information regarding these forms and processes into
contemporary dialogue. In many earlier grammars, discussion of
expressive elements such as ideophones and mimetics was relegated to
footnotes at best. This is no longer the case in modern linguistic
documentation and description, necessitating new fieldwork methods and
analytical tools. The chapters in this book represent a new stage in
the history of the study of expressivity: they explore a variety of
different expressive items from a wide range of languages, focusing on
the question of how to 'capture' expressivity in language and culture.

Linguistic Field(s): Anthropological Linguistics
                     Psycholinguistics
                     Semantics




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