| 单词 | sound-symbolism |
| 释义 | > as lemmassound-symbolism sound-symbolism n. Linguistics the (partial) natural representation of the sense of a word by its sound. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > linguistics > study of speech sound > speech sound > [noun] > phonaesthesia sound-symbolism1901 phonaesthesia1950 phonaesthesis1965 1901 H. Oertel Lect. Study Lang. 328 It would..embrace the attempts at word-painting and sound-symbolism. 1922 O. Jespersen Lang. 396 The idea that there is a natural correspondence between sound and sense, and that words acquire their contents and value through a certain sound symbolism, has at all times been a favourite one with linguistic dilettanti. 1957 R. W. Zandvoort Handbk. Eng. Gram. (new ed.) ii. ii. 111 Thus a man's club by the side of a men's club; a woman's college by the side of a women's college. This seems to be to some extent a matter of ‘sound-symbolism’: the singular forms are preferred because they have a more ‘manly’ sound. 1977 G. W. Hewes in D. M. Rumbaugh Lang. Learning by Chimpanzee i. 48 Sound-symbolism may be explicable on the basis of mouth-gesture. < as lemmas |
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