36.3533, Books: Onomatopoeia: Körtvélyessy (2025)

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Subject: 36.3533, Books: Onomatopoeia: Körtvélyessy (2025)

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Date: 18-Nov-2025
From: Ellena Moriarty [rfsupport at cambridge.org]
Subject: Onomatopoeia: Körtvélyessy (2025)


Title: Onomatopoeia
Subtitle: The Colorful World of Sounds
Publication Year: 2025

Publisher: Cambridge University Press
           http://www.cambridge.org/linguistics
Book URL:
https://www.cambridge.org/ch/universitypress/subjects/languages-linguistics/phonetics-and-phonology/onomatopoeia-colorful-world-sounds?format=HB&isbn=9781009438018

Author(s): Lívia Körtvélyessy

Hardback ISBN:  9781009438018 Pages:  420 Price: U.K. £ 115.00
Hardback ISBN:  9781009438018 Pages:  420 Price: Europe EURO 134.22
Hardback ISBN:  9781009438018 Pages:  420 Price: U.S. $ 150.00

Abstract:

How do languages capture and represent the sounds of the world? Is
this a universal phenomenon? Drawing from data taken from 124
different languages, this innovative book offers a detailed
exploration of onomatopoeia, that are imagic icons of sound events. It
provides comprehensive analysis from both theoretical and empirical
perspectives, and identifies the prototypical semiotic, phonological,
morphological, syntactic, word-formation, and socio-pragmatic features
of onomatopoeia. Supported with numerous examples from the sample
languages, the book highlights the varied scope of onomatopoeia in
different languages, its relationship to ideophones and interjections,
and the role of sound symbolism, particularly phonesthemes, in
onomatopoeia-formation. It introduces an onomasiological model of
onomatopoeia-formation, identifies onomatopoeic patterns, and
specifies the factors affecting the similarities and differences
between onomatopoeias standing for the same sound event. Filling a
major gap in language studies, it is essential reading for researchers
and students of phonology, morphology, semiotics, poetics, and
linguistic typology.

Written In: English (eng)



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