John Haiman (Minnesota Macalester College)

Broschiertes Buch

Ideophones and the Evolution of Language

Beschreibung

This cross-linguistic study explores the role of the ideophone - a single word that conveys an impression of what it describes - in language evolution. It argues that ideophones provide the 'missing link' in our knowledge of how communication has evolved from early gestured performance through to spoken language today.

Autor

John Haiman is the author of Hua: A Papuan Language of the Eastern Highlands of New Guinea (1980), The Rhaeto-Romance Languages (with Paola Beninca, 1992) and Cambodian: Khmer (2011). He pioneered the resurgence of interest in iconicity in language with Natural Syntax (Cambridge, 1985), and was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship 1989 for the study of sarcasm, which resulted in his book Talk Is Cheap (1998).

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 394
• Erscheinungstermin: 17. September 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 21mm
• Gewicht: 574g
• ISBN-13: 9781107695030
• ISBN-10: 1107695031
• Artikelnr.: 59985936