#ideophones — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #ideophones, aggregated by home.social.
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📣New publication on #ideophones Don't miss this fantastic issue on #motion and #ideophones across #languages in the Journal of Cognitive Semantics @degruyter_brill @[email protected] @[email protected] ¡¡¡It's #OpenAccess!!! brill.com/view/journal...
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New! A multi-methods toolkit for ideophone research, w/ Bonnie McLean
⛓️💥 :OpenAccess: PDF https://pure.mpg.de/pubman/item/item_3644631_1/component/file_3644632/McLean%20Dingemanse%202025%20Multi-methods%20toolkit%20for%20documentary%20research%20on%20ideophones.pdf
On the blog: https://ideophone.org/new-methods-for-ideophone-research/
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I shouldn't have looked up the #Ideophones article on Wikipedia 🫠
bristling with exoticism and anglocentrism, deeply wrong in many places (least common word class!? sound imitation?!) and generally just subpar.
(yes I know anyone including me can edit wikipedia, I was once an admin and contributed at least 100 articles 2004-2007. To avoid any COI I wouldn't edit topics where I've become an author of primary sources myself)
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New preprint! Triangulating iconicity, with Stella Punselie & Bonnie McLean (Uppsala) https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/z9a4e
We combine three ways of looking at the iconicity of 239 #ideophones from 5 languages: (i) coding structural correspondences between form and meaning; (ii) collecting subjective iconicity ratings, and (iii) relating these to performance in guessing tasks. Triangulation contributes to an empirically grounded, theoretically informed, experimentally robust understanding of #iconicity.
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@dingemansemark I had a discussion with Corrine Occhino and Vadim Kimmelman recently about how to discuss signs with (presumably) accidental similar form and meaning between two unrelated signed languages. We were wondering if there is any term you are aware of for when ideophones are similar in form and meaning across to spoken languages? #ideophones #linguistics
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Finally out! Two chapters in the Oxford Handbook of Word Classes:
📖 Ideophones :OpenAccess: PDF https://pure.mpg.de/pubman/item/item_3556597_1/component/file_3556598/Dingemanse_2023_Ideophones_OUP_withbib.pdf
📖 Interjections :OpenAccess: PDF https://pure.mpg.de/pubman/item/item_3556600_1/component/file_3556601/Dingemanse_2023_Interjections_OUP_withbib.pdf -
‘Pachi pachi’ or ‘kachi kachi’? Japan launches foreigners’ guide to tricky world of onomatopoeia https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/nov/15/mie-prefecture-guide-pachi-pachi-or-kachi-kachi-a-foreigners-guide-to-the-tricky-world-of-japans-onomatopoeia
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Part II of my peer review of this preprint is now online. I call into doubt the scientific utility of seeing ideophones as a “linguistic fossil” (a relic frozen in time, an archaism, a remnant of what once was), and note how such a construal risks imposing tunnel vision — precisely what we see, I think, in this preprint https://ideophone.org/pitfalls-of-fossil-thinking-a-peer-review-ii/ #linguistics #HistoryOfLinguistics #ideophones
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CW: 'linguistic fossils', racism, exoticism, ideophones
I saw a preprint and wrote something on the fraught history of Western linguistic thinking about language evolution, sound symbolism and #ideophones
https://ideophone.org/pitfalls-of-fossil-thinking-preface-to-a-peer-review/
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🎉 New paper led by the amazing Bonnie McLean! "Two measures are better than one: combining iconicity ratings and guessing experiments for a more nuanced picture of iconicity in the lexicon"
:OpenAccess: :doi: https://doi.org/10.1017/langcog.2023.9This is Bonnie's 1st PhD paper (w/ Michael Dunn & myself) and it's #openscience all the way: open access paper with all materials on OSF & with a :python: #python package `icotools` to boot