| 单词 | pooh-pooh theory |
| 释义 | > as lemmaspooh-pooh theory pooh-pooh theory n. the theory that language is a development of natural interjections (cf. bow-wow int. and n. 2b). ΘΚΠ the mind > language > [noun] > origin of language > theories of pooh-pooh theory1861 bow-wow theory1864 symphonesis1872 nativism1892 ta-ta theory1930 sing-song theory1939 1861 F. M. Müller Lect. Sci. Lang. ix. 352 These cries or interjections were represented as the natural and real beginnings of human speech... This is what I call the Interjectional, or Pooh-pooh, Theory. 1928 W. B. Pillsbury & C. L. Meader Psychol. of Lang. vii. 113 These theories have been nicknamed by their opponents the ‘bowwow theory’..the ‘pooh-pooh theory’..and..the ‘dingdong theory’. 2004 Austral. Financial Rev. (Nexis) 10 Jan. 47 Then there's the pooh-pooh theory, according to which people started by emitting instinctive sounds, caused by pain, anger, frustration or something similar. < as lemmas |
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