A Bibliography of

Sound-Symbolic Phenomena

in Japanese

Update history:

December 2010

May 2009

September 2008

September 2007

See “Bibliography B” for studies in other languages or crosslinguistic studies.

Please feel free to contact me if you find any wrong or missing items.

Kimi Akita

Nagoya University

http://sites.google.com/site/akitambo/

This project is partly supported by Grant-in-Aid for JSPS Fellows (#21-2238, “A crosslinguistic and developmental study of the syntax and semantics of sound-symbolic words: On the roles of lexical iconicity”), Grant-in-Aid for Young Scientists (B) (#24720179, "A frame-semantic study of the peculiarities of sound-symbolic words using audiovisual experiments," 2012-2015), and Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation (#FFI2010-14903, “Movimiento y espacio desde la tipologia semantica y su aplicatcion a la traduccion y la adquisicion plazo de ejecución”).

Bibliographies

• Luo, Mi. 2008-present. Onomatope-ni kansuru sankoo-bunken-risuto [A list of references of Japanese mimetics]. (http://luomiliang-kobe.blogspot.com/2008/06/blog-post.html)

• Mikami, Kyoko. Onomatopea-ni tuite-no sankoo-bunken [References on Japanese onomatopoeia]. Waseda University. (http://www.gsjal.jp/kawaguchi/dat/onomatope.pdf)

• Yu, Kang. Onomatope-kenkyuu-no sankoo-bunken [References of the study of Japanese mimetics]. (http://www2.bbweb-arena.com/yukang/オノマトペ研究の参考文献.htm)

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General Investigations

• Aiyama, Miho. 1999. Gitaigo-to giseigo-ni miru niti-/eigo-hyoogen-no hikaku [A comparison of Japanese and English expressions in terms of mimetics]. B.A. thesis, J. F. Obirin University.

• Akita, Kimi. 2009. A Grammar of Sound-Symbolic Words in Japanese: Theoretical Approaches to Iconic and Lexical Properties of Mimetics. Ph.D. dissertation, Kobe University.

• Akita, Kimi. 2010. Onomatope-bunpoo-ni okeru ruisyoosei [Iconicity in mimetic grammar]. Paper presented at the Eighth Fukuoka University Linguistics Colloquium, Fukuoka University, 13 September 2010.

• Akita, Kimi. To appear. Onomatope/onsyootyoo-no kenkyuusi [A history of the study of mimetics and sound symbolism].

• Akita, Kimi, and Sachiko Hirata, org. 2010. Symposium 3: Universality and Language-Specificity of Sound Symbolism: The Interplay of Multimodality, Embodiment, and Iconicity. Proceedings of the 7th Biannual International Conference on Cognitive Science, pp. 38-42.

• Amanuma, Yasushi. 1989. Giongo/gitaigo [Onomatopeia: Giongo/gitaigo]. Nihongo-kyooiku [Journal of Japanese language teaching] 68: 13-29.

• Amanuma, Yasushi. 1990. Hebon-tyo Wa/ei gorinsyuusei-ni sairoku sarete iru giongo/gitaigo [Onomatopoeia and imitative words collected in Hepburn’s Waei-gorin-shuusei]. Annual Report, Faculty of Literature 22: 1-20. Otsuma Women’s University.

• Aston, W. G. 1894. Japanese onomatopes and the origin of language. Journal of the Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland 23: 332-363.

• Backhouse, A. E. 1983. The expressive stratum in modern Japanese. Gengo kenkyuu 83: 61-78.

• Go, Sen. 2005. Onomatope-o tyuusin-to sita tyuu-niti-taisyoo gengo-kenkyuu [Linguistic study of onomatopoeia based on cross-referenced Chinese and Japanese languages]. Tokyo: Hakuteisha.

• Haga, Jun. 1990. Metafaa-no teegi-to kenkyuu-kadai [The definition of metaphor and research issues]. In Jun Haga and Masuo Koyasu, eds., Metafaa-no sinrigaku [Psychology of metaphor], Chapter 1. Tokyo: Seishin Shobo.

• Hashimoto, Keiji. 1996. Onomatope-kenkyuu-e-no zensyoo [An outpost of the study of onomatopoeia]. Ryuugakusei-sentaa kiyoo 6: 27-41. Hiroshima University.

• Himeno, Masako. 2005. Onsyootyoogo-no kinoo-to yoohoo [Functions and uses of sound-symbolic words]. In Masako Himeno, Tsuruko Uenoda, and Fumio Inoue, eds., Gengo bunka kenkyuu III: Gendai-nihongo-no yoosoo [Studies in language and culture, Vol. III: Aspects of modern Japanese], pp. 9-24. Tokyo: The Society for the Promotion of the University of the Air.

• Hira, Miyuki. 2001. Gendaigo-ni okeru giongo-no taipu-ni tuite [Patterns of onomatopoeia in Modern Japanese]. Bulletin of the Center for Japanese Language 1: 31-45. Doshisha University.

• Hira, Miyuki. 2005. XYXY-taipu-no giongo [On onomatopoeia of the XYXY type]. Bulletin of Center for Japanese Language 5: 1-15. Doshisha University.

• Hira, Miyuki. 2009. A-ri-goki-no gendai-onsyootyoogo [Word stem “A-ri” in Modern Japanese sound symbolism]. Doosisya daigaku nihongo/nihon-bunka kenkuu 7: 1-16. Doshisha University.

• Hirata, Sachiko, and Kimi Akita, org. 2010. Workshop W6: Onomatope-to onsyootyoo [Mimetics and sound symbolism]. Proceedings of the 27th Annual Meeting of the Japan Cognitive Science Society. (http://www.jcss.gr.jp/meetings/JCSS2010/pdf/JCSS2010_W6.pdf)

• Hirose, Masayoshi. 1981. Japanese and English Contrastive Lexicology: The Role of Japanese “Mimetic Adverbs.” Ph.D. dissertation, University of California, Berkeley.

• Horii, Reiji. 1986. Giongo/gitaigo-no gengogaku [Linguistics of mimetics]. Nihongogaku 5, 7: 4-12.

• Ishiguro, Kei. 2008. Onomatope-to-wa [What onomatopoeia is]. Kokugogaku 53, 14: 24-32.

• Iwasaki, Shoichi. 2002. Japanese. Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins.

• Izaki, Tetsuya, and Ichiko Fuyuno. 1993. Tekotoba-no hon, dai 2-syuu: Giongo/gitaigo [A book on signed language, Volume 2: Mimetics]. Tokyo: Asunaro Shobo.

• Izumi, Kunihisa. 1976. Giseigo/gitaigo-no tokusitu [Some characteristics of mimetics]. In Takao Suzuki, ed., Nihongo-no goi-to hyoogen [Japanese vocabulary and expressions], pp. 105-151. Tokyo: Taishukan Shoten.

• Jorden, Eleanoa H. 1982. Giseigo/gitaigo-to eigo [Mimetics and English]. In Tetsuya Kunihiro, ed., Hassoo-to hyoogen [Ideas and expressions], pp. 111-140. Tokyo: Taishukan Shoten.

• Kadooka, Ken-Ichi. 1993b. Nihon-no “gizi-onomatope”: Nihongo-to tyuugokugo-no setten [Pseudo-mimetics in Japanese: At the interface between Japanese and Chinese]. In Hisao Kakehi and Ikuhiro Tamori, eds., Onomatopia: Gion-/gitaigo-no rakuen [Onomatopia: A utopia of mimetics], pp. 145-218. Tokyo: Keiso Shobo.

• Kakehi, Hisao. 1983. Onomatopoeic expressions in Japanese and English. Proceedings of the XIIIth International Congress of Linguists, pp. 913-918.

• Kakehi, Hisao. 1986a. Eigo-no giongo/gitaigo: Syu-to site nihongo-to-no taihi-ni oite [Mimetics in English: Comparison with Japanese in the main].Nihongogaku 5, 7: 39-46.

• Kakehi, Hisao. 1986b. The function and expressiveness of Japanese onomatopes. Bulletin of the Faculty of Letters, Kobe University 13: 1-12. Kobe University.

• Kakehi, Hisao. 2001. “Hensin”-suru onomatope [Mimetics transforming themselves]. Gengo 30, 9: 28-36.

• Kakehi, Hisao, and Ikuhiro Tamori, eds. 1993a. Onomatopia: Gion-/gitaigo-no rakuen [Onomatopia: A utopia of mimetics]. Tokyo: Keiso Shobo.

• Kakehi, Hisao, and Ikuhiro Tamori. 1993b. Zyo-ni kaete [For introduction]. In Hisao Kakehi and Ikuhiro Tamori, eds., Onomatopia: Gion-/gitaigo-no rakuen [Onomatopia: A utopia of mimetics], pp. i-vii. Tokyo: Keiso Shobo.

• Kamei, Takashi. 1989. Onsyootyoo-sango [Apropos of “sound symbolism”: An essay]. Nihongo-kyooiku [Journal of Japanese language teaching] 68: 146-161.

• Kamizu, Tomoyoshi, Yasuo Tanami, Shohei Nakahara, and Norio Yoshizawa. 1965. Gendai-ni ikiru giseigo/gitaigo (zadankai) [Mimetics living in the modern age (a round-table talk). Gengo-seikatu 171: 2-17.

• Kardy, Glenn, and Chihiro Hattori. 2007. Kana de manga: Japanese Sound FX! Tokyo/San Francisco: Japanime Co.

• Kimizuka, Sumako. 1967. A contrastive study of the Japanese structural device ‘onomatopoeia + verb’ and certain English verbs. The Journal-Newsletter of the Association of Teachers of Japanese 4, 3: 12-16.

• Kindaichi, Haruhiko. 1978. Giongo/gitaigo gaisetu [Overview of mimetics]. In Tsuruko Asano, ed., Giongo/gitaigo ziten [A dictionary of mimetics], pp. 3-25. Tokyo: Kadokawa Shuppan. (Republished as “Giongo/gitaigo” [Mimetics] in Haruhiko Kindaichi. 1982. Kindaiti Haruhiko: Nihongo-seminaa (2): Nihongo-no sikumi [Haruhiko Kindaichi’s seminar on Japanese (2): The mechanism of Japanese], pp. 131-151. Tokyo: Chikuma Shobo).

• Kindaichi, Haruhiko. 1988. Nihongo. 2 volumes. Tokyo: Iwanami Shoten.

• Kobayashi, Hideo. 1935. Kokugo-syootyoogo-no kenkyuu [A study of sound-symbolic words in Japanese]. Bungaku 1, 8: 1313-1359.

• Kobayashi, Hideo. 1965. Giongo-to giyoogo [Phonomimes and phenomimes]. Gengo-seikatu 171: 18-29.

• Kobayashi, Hideo. 1976. Gengo-bigaku ronkoo [Studies on linguistic aesthetics]. Tokyo: Misuzu Shobo.

• Kotoba-no utyuu editorial board. 1968. Gitaigo-tyoosa-kara [From an investigation of mimetics]. Kotoba-no utyuu 3, 10: 43-48.

• Kunihiro, Tetsuya. 1982. Soosetu [General remarks]. In Tetsuya Kunihiro, ed., Hassoo-to hyoogen [Ideas and expressions], pp. 1-30. Tokyo: Taishukan Shoten.

• Makino, Seiichi, and Michio Tsutsui. 1989. Nihongo kihon bunpoo ziten [A dictionary of basic Japanese grammar]. Tokyo: The Japan Times.

• Martin, Samuel E. 1975. A Reference Grammar of Japanese. New Haven/London: Yale University Press.

• Miller, Roy Andrew. 1980. The Japanese Language. Tokyo: Charles E. Tuttle Company.

• Miyaji, Yutaka, and Mutsuro Kai. 2008. Nihongogaku tokusyuu-teema-betu fairu: Imi 4: Giongo/gitaigo/sikisaigo [Files by special themes of the journal Nihongogaku: Semantics 4: Mimetics and color terms]. Tokyo: Meiji Shoin.

• Miyata, Koichi. 1948. Nihongo-bunpoo-no rinkaku [The contour of Japanese grammar]. Tokyo: Sanseido.

• Morioka, Kenji, and Yutaka Miyaji, Hideo Teramura, and Yoshiaki Kawabata, eds. 1982. Kooza nihongogaku 12: Gaikokugo-to-no taisyoo III[Courses in Japanese linguistics, Vol. 12: Comparison with foreign languages, III]. Tokyo: Meiji Shoin.

• Nakazato, Michiko. 2008. Kango-kei-onomatope-o doo kangaeru-ka [How we should consider Sino-Japanese onomatopoeia]. Kokubungaku 53, 14: 98-106.

• Nasu, Akio. 2008. A review of nihongo onomatope-goi-ni okeru keitaiteki/on’inteki taikeisei-ni tuite [On the morphological and phonological systematicity of Japanese mimetics] by Ken-Ichi Kadooka. Gengo 37, 2: 120.

• Nasu, Akio. 2009. Syohyoo: Kadooka keniti-tyo Nihongo onomatope-goi-ni okeru keitaiteki/on’inteki taikeisei-ni tuite [Review: On the morphological and phonological systematicity of Japanese mimetics by Ken-Ichi Kadooka]. Kokugogaku [Studies in the Japanese language] 5, 1: 60-65.

• Nishio, Toraya. 1988. Gendai-goi-no kenkyuu [Studies of the modern vocabulary]. Tokyo: Meiji Shoin.

• Nitta, Yoshio. 2002. Hukusiteki-hyoogen-no syosoo [Aspects of adverbial expressions]. Tokyo: Kurosio Publishers.

• Noma, Hideki. 1998. Mottomo onomatope-ga hoohu-na gengo [The language richest in onomatopoeia]. Gengo 27, 5: 30-34.

• Noto, Kuniyuki. 2009. Nihongo onomatope-no syosoo. Ph.D. dissertation, Osaka University.

• Okubo, Tadatoshi. 1968. Gendai-nihon-kyootuugo “oto-mane-go”-ron: Giseigo-to gitaigo [A theory of “sound-mimicking words” in standard modern Japanese: Mimetics]. Kotoba-no utyuu 3, 10: 2-22.

• Ono, Masahiro. 2009. Onomatope-ga aru-kara nihongo-wa tanosii: Giongo/gitaigo-no yutakana sekai [Japanese is interesting because it has much onomatopoeia: The world rich in mimetics]. Tokyo: Heibonsha.

• Otsubo, Heiji. 1982. Syootyoo-goi-no rekisi [The history of sound-symbolic words]. In Kenji Morioka, ed., Kooza nihongogaku 4: Goisi [Lectures on Japanese linguistics 4: Lexical history], pp. 228-250. Tokyo: Meiji Shoin.

• Otsubo, Heiji. 1989/2006. Giseigo-no kenkyuu [Studies on mimetics]. Tokyo: Kazama Shobo.

• Psychological Statistics Team. 2005. “Moe”-no kokugogaku [The philology of “moe”]. Persona 13, 3: Comic Market 68, special issue 1: 22-35. Keio Psychology Society.

• Sawada, Harumi. 1978. Niti-/eigo bun-hukusi-rui (sentence adverbials)-no taisyoo-kenkyuu: Speech act-riron-no siten-kara [A contrastive study of sentence adverbials in Japanese and English: From the viewpoint of the speech act theory]. Gengo kenkyuu 74: 1-34.

• Shibatani, Masayoshi. 1990. The Languages of Japan. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

• Shohara, Hide. 1951. A Semantic Study of Binary Adverbs in Japanese. The Modern Language Journal 35, 1: 7-12.

• Shogakukan, ed. 1991. Giongo/gitaigo-no yomihon [A reader of mimetics]. Tokyo: Shogakukan.

• Takada, Miyuki. 2001. Giongo-no goika-ni kansuru nit-/tyuu-ryoo-gengo-no tokutyoo [Characteristics of lexicalization of phonomimes in Japanese and Chinese]. Tagen bunka 1: 79-90. Nagoya University.

• Takeuchi, Michiko, ed. 2005. Hukusiteki-hyoogen-o megutte: Taisyoo-kenkyuu [Adverbials: Contrastive studies]. Tokyo: Hituzi Syobo.

• Tamori, Ikuhiro. 1990. Expressiveness of Japanese and English onomatopoeic expressions. In Kotoba-no utage: Kakehi Hisao-kyoozyu kanreki kinen ronsyuu [“Linguistic fiesta”: Festschrift for Professor Hisao Kakehi’s sixtieth birthday], pp. 287-306. Tokyo: Kurosio Publishers.

• Tamori, Ikuhiro. 1991. Nihongo onomatope-no kenkyuu [A study of Japanese onomatopoeia]. Institute of Economic Research, Kobe University of Commerce.

• Tamori, Ikuhiro. 2002. Onomatope: Gion-/gitaigo-o tanosimu [Onomatopoeia: Enjoying mimetics]. Tokyo: Iwanami Shoten.

• Tamori, Ikuhiro. 2008. Onomatope-no taikeisei [The systematicity of onomatopoeia]. Kokubungaku 53, 14: 70-79.

• Tamori, Ikuhiro, and Lawrence Schourup. 1999. Onomatope: Keitai-to imi [Onomatopoeia: Form and meaning]. Tokyo: Kurosio Publishers.

• Tanaka, Akio. 1978. Kokugo goi-ron [Lexicography of Japanese]. Tokyo: Meiji Shoin.

• Tanaka, Yoshio, Masayoshi Okubo, and Takashi Saito. 1973. Japanese for Today. Tokyo: Gakken Co., Ltd./Publishers.

• Tanno, Machitoshi. 2007a. Onomatope (giongo/gitaigo)-o ikasu: Kuoria-no gengo-sinrigaku [Utilizing mimetics: Linguistic psychology of qualia]. Kyoto: Airi Publishers.

• Tanno, Machitoshi. 2007b. Hyooden: Suzuki akira [A critical biography of Akira Suzuki]. In Machitoshi Tanno, ed., Onomatope (giongo/gitaigo)-o ikasu: Kuoria-no gengo-sinrigaku [Utilizing mimetics: Linguistic psychology of qualia], pp. 1-10. Kyoto: Airi Publishers.

• Tokui, Sotoaki. 2007. Hen-na kotoba-no tuu-ni naru: Yutaka-na nihongo, onomatope-no sekai [Becoming an expert at peculiar words: The world of mimetics in rich Japanese]. Tokyo: Shodensha.

• Tsujimura, Natsuko. 2002/2006. An Introduction to Japanese Linguistics. Second edition. Cambridge, MA/Oxford: Blackwell Publishers.

• Udo Mariko. 2002. Onomatope-kara manabu mono [On what we beneft from onomatopoeic studies]. Hyogo University of Teacher Education Journal22: 13-21. Hyogo University of Teacher Education.

• Umegaki, Minoru. 1961. Bara-to sakura: Niti-/ei-hikaku-gogaku nyuumon [Rose and cherry blossoms: An introduction to the Japanese-English contrastive study]. Tokyo: Taishukan Shoten.

• Yamaguchi, Nakami. 2004. NHK nihongo naruhodo-zyuku 10-gatu-goo: Dokidoki, dokkaan! Gion-/gitaigo-no sekai [NHK convincing Japanese lessons, October: Dokidoki, dokkaan! The world of mimetics]. Japan Broadcast Publishing.

• Yamaguchi, Nakami. 2007. Wakamono-kotoba-ni mimi-o sumaseba [When listening to young people’s language]. Tokyo: Kodansha.

• Yamaoka, Masaki. 2004. Nitta Yosio-tyo Hukusiteki hyoogen-no syosoo [A review of Aspects of Adverbial Expressions by Yoshio Nitta (Kurosio Publishers, 2002)]. Nihongo bunpoo [Journal of Japanese grammar] 4, 1: 139-148.

• Yang, Edith. 1985. The effectiveness of Japanese onomatopoetic words (giseigo and gitaigo). In Nam-Kil Kim and Henry H. Tiee, eds., Studies in East Asian Linguistics: Proceedings of Linguistic Conference on East Asian Languages, pp. 165-178. Los Angeles, CA: East Asian Languages & Culture, University of Southern California.

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Semantics

• Akita, Kimi. 2006a. The “Embodied” Semantics of Japanese Psych Mimetics. M.A. thesis, Kobe University.

• Akita, Kimi. 2006b. Embodied semantics of Japanese psychomimes. KLS 26: Proceedings of the Thirtieth Annual Meeting, pp. 45-55. Kansai Linguistic Society.

• Akita, Kimi. 2006c. Suru and to for Japanese mimetics: A semantic-integration account. Handbook of the Fifth International Conference on Practical Linguistics of Japanese, pp. 26-27. San Francisco State University.

• Akita, Kimi. 2007a. Nihongo-ni okeru onsyootyoogo-o hukumu zyutugo-no zisyoo-taipu-kettei [Eventuality type determination of mimetic predicates in Japanese]. Conference Handbook of the 134th Semiannual Meeting of the Linguistic Society of Japan, pp. 276-281.

• Akita, Kimi. 2007c. One experience viewed in two ways: A viewpoint approach to the case marking patterns of Japanese psych-verbs. In Taro Kageyama, ed., Lexicon Forum 3, pp. 283-297. Tokyo: Hituzi Syobo.

• Akita, Kimi. 2008. Two cognitive subsystems of sound symbolism in Japanese. KLS 28: Proceedings of the Thirty-Second Annual Meeting, pp. 23-33. Kansai Linguistic Society.

• Akita, Kimi. 2010a. Animacy in sound-symbolic words: On the linguistic difference between voice and noise. Ms., University of California, Berkeley.

• Akita, Kimi. 2010b. The cognitive semantics of onoamtopoeia: A crosslinguistic perspective on the lexical integration of sound symbolism.Proceedings of the 7th Biannual International Conference on Cognitive Science, pp. 38-39.

• Akita, Kimi. 2010c. An embodied semantic analysis of psychological mimetics in Japanese. Linguistics 48, 6: 1195-1220.

• Akita, Kimi. 2011. A constructionist analysis of emphatic mimetics in Japanese. KLS 31: Proceedings of the Thiry-Fifth Annual Meeting. Kansai Linguistic Society.

• Akita, Kimi, Yo Matsumoto, and Kyoko Hirose Ohara. 2009. Idoo-zisyoo-wa niti-/eigo-wasya-ni doo kikoe doo mieru-no-ka: Idoo-hyoogen-no ruikeiron-ni okeru onsyootyoogo-no iti-zuke [How motion sounds/looks in Japanese and English: Mimetics in the typology of motion expressions].Kobe Papers in Linguistics 6: 1-19. Kobe University.

• Akita, Kimi, Yo Matsumoto, and Kyoko Hirose Ohara. 2010. Idoo-hyoogen-no ruikeiron-ni okeru tyokuziteki-keiro-hyoogen-to yootai-goi-repaatorii [Deictic path expressions and manner lexicon in the typology of motion expressions. In Taro Kageyama, ed., Lexicon Forum 5, pp. 1-25. Tokyo: Hituzi Syobo.

• Arakawa, Tadashi. 1979. “Hukusi-to doosi-no kumiawase”-siron [An essay on combinations of adverbs and verbs]. Gengogaku kenkyuu-kai, ed.,Gengo-no kenkyuu [Studies in language], pp. 173-202. Tokyo: Mugi Shobo.

• Fukada, Chie, and Koichiro Nakamoto. 2008. Gainenka-to imi-no sekai: Ninti-imiron-no apurooti [The world of conceptualization and meaning: Approaches of cognitive semantics]. Tokyo: Kenkyusha.

• Hasada, Rie. 1998. Sound symbolic emotion words in Japanese. In Angeliki Athanasiadou and Elżbieta Tabakowska, eds., Speaking of Emotions: Conceptualisation and Expression, pp. 83-98. Berlin/New York: Mouton de Gruyter.

• Hasada, Rie. 2001. Meanings of Japanese sound-symbolic emotion words. In Jean Harkins and Anna Wierzbicka, eds., Emotions in Crosslinguistic Perspective, pp. 217-253. Berlin/New York: Mouton de Gruyter.

• Hasada, Rie. 2002a. ‘Body part’ terms and emotion in Japanese. Pragmatics and Cognition 10, 1: 107-128.

• Hasada, Rie. 2002b. The “Natural Semantic Metalanguage (NSM)” method for explicating the meaning of words and expressions: A linguistic approach to the study of emotion. Bulletin of Japanese Language School 28: 69-102. Tokyo University of Foreign Studies.

• Herlofsky, William John. 1997. Imitative words, sound-symbolic grammar, and interlocutionary involvement in Japanese discourse. Journal of Japanese Linguistics and Education 4: 21-40. Nagoya Gakuin University.

• Inoue, Kazuko. 2010. Onomatope-no retorikku: Giongo/gitaigo-hyoogen-no soohatu-ni kansuru ninti-gengogakuteki-kenkyuu [Rhetoric of onomatopoeia: Cognitive linguistic study on neologism of onomatopoeia and mimetics]. Doctoral dissertation, Osaka University.

• Ito, Rie. 2002. Onomatope-ni kansuru koosatu: Giongo-to gitaigo-kan-no kyookankaku-teki hiyu-hyoogen-ni tuite [Onomatopoeic words and mimetic words: Their synaesthesia-figurative relations]. Bulletin of the Edward Sapir Society of Japan 16: 55-66.

• Kadooka, Ken-Ichi. 2003. Nihongo onomatope-goki-no tagisei-ni tuite [On the polysemous nature in Japanese onomatopoeia bases]. Ryukoku International Center Research Bulletin 12: 23-44.

• Kageyama, Taro. 2007. Explorations in the conceptual semantics of mimetic verbs. In Bjarke Frellesvig, Masayoshi Shibatani, and John Smith, eds., Current Issues in the History and Structure of Japanese, pp. 27-82. Tokyo: Kurosio Publishers.

• Kakehi, Hisao. 1993. Ippan-goi-to natta onomatope [Onomatopoeia that has penetrated into the general lexicon]. Gengo 22, 6: 38-45.

• Kita, Sotaro. 1997. Two-dimensional semantic analysis of Japanese mimetics. Linguistics 35, 2: 379-415.

• Kita, Sotaro. 2001. Semantic schism and interpretive integration in Japanese sentences with a mimetic: A reply to Tsujimura. Linguistics 39, 2: 419-436.

• Kita, Sotaro. 2008. World-view of protolanguage speakers as inferred from semantics of sound symbolic words: A case of Japanese mimetics. In Nobuo Masataka, ed., The Origins of Language: Unraveling Evolutionary Forces, pp. 25-38. Tokyo: Springer.

• Komatsu, Koji. 2010. How signs function in the process of meaning construction: An exemplification from Gitai-go in the Japanese language.Integrative Psychological and Behavioral Science 44, 2: 144-155.

• Koyano, Tetsuo. 1982. Hukusi-no imi-kizyutu-ni tuite: Hoohoo-to zissai [On the semantic description of adverbs]. Japanese Language and Culture11: 39-63. Osaka University of Foreign Studies.

• Kusumi, Takashi, and Eiji Komeda. 2007. Kanzyoo-to gengo [Emotion and language]. In Kazuo Fujita, ed., Kanzyoo kagaku [Affective science], pp. 55-84. Kyoto: Kyoto University Press.

• Lu, Chiarung. 2006. Giongo/gitaigo-no hiyuteki-kakutyoo-no syosoo: Ninti-gengogaku-to ruikeiron-no kanten-kara [Aspects of figurative extensions of mimetics: From cognitive linguistic and typological perspectives]. Ph.D. dissertation, Kyoto University.

• Lu, Chiarung. 2011. Synesthetic generalization revisited: A new perspective based on onomatopoetic words. Proceedings of the Eleventh Annual Meeting of the Japanese Cognitive Linguistics Association.

• Luo, Miliang. 2008. Kyarakuta-to “warai”-no onomatope [Characters and mimetics for laughing]. Paper presented at a workshop on Japanese speech communication entitled “Zinbutu-zoo-to nihongo-kyooiku” [Characters and Japanese language education], Kobe University, 24 July 2008.

• McVeigh, Brian. 1996. Standing stomachs, clamoring chests and cooling livers: Metaphors in the psychological lexicon of Japanese. Journal of Pragmatics 26: 25-50.

• Matsumoto, Yo. 2003a. Tarumii-ni yoru idoo-hyoogen-no ruikeiron-o meguru mondai: Idoo-no imiron I [Problems concerning Talmy’s typology of motion expressions: The semantics of motion I]. Meizi gakuin ronsoo 695: 51-82. Meiji Gakuin University.

• Matsumoto, Yo. 2003b. Typologies of lexicalization patterns and event integration: Clarifications and reformulations. In Shuji Chiba et al., eds.,Empirical and Theoretical Investigations into Language: A Festschrift for Masaru Kajita, pp. 403-417. Tokyo: Kaitakusha.

• Moriyama, Keiko. 1996. “Karada-no zyookyoo-o arawasu gitaigo”-ni tuite: Basyoo zatuwa-no baai [On “mimetics representing bodily conditions”: The case of Basyoo zatuwa]. Kokugo-to kyooiku 21: 24-32. Nagasaki University.

• Muroyama, Toshiaki. 1972. “Hito-no aruku sugata-ni kansuru gitai-hukusi-goi”-no imi-koozoo-ni tuite-no iti-siron [A study of the semantic structure of adverbs describing manner of walking]. Kokugogaku [Studies in the Japanese language] 90: 25-41.

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Psychology, Neuroscience, and Engineering

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Morphology

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Pragmatics, Discourse Analysis, and Corpus Studies

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L1/L2 Acquisition

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Literature, Translation, Cartoons, Arts, and Naming

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Dialectology and Linguistic Anthropology

• Hamano, Shoko. 2007. Sound symbolism in northern dialects of Japanese: Its implications for historical linguistics. In Bjarke Frellesvig, Masayoshi Shibatani, and John Smith, eds., Current Issues in the History and Structures of Japanese, pp. 171-185. Tokyo: Kurosio Publishers.

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• Sato, Kazuyuki. 2001. Nagee nagee mugasiko: Toohoku-hoogen-no onomatope [Long long time ago: Mimetics in the Tohoku dialect]. Gengo 30, 9: 20-21.

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Gestures

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Diachrony

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• Nakazato, Michiko. 2000. Meizi-zenki-no wago-kei/kango-kei onomatope-ni tuite: Ukigumo-o tyuusin-ni [A study of onomatopoeia in the first half of Meiji Era: Focusing on the expressions in Ukigumo]. Bulletin of Joetsu University of Education 19, 2: 805-818. Joetsu University of Education.

• Nakazato, Michiko. 2001. Meizi-kooki-no wago-kei/kango-kei onomatope [A study of onomatopoeia in the second half of the Meiji Era]. Bulletin of Joetsu University of Education 20, 2: 562-574. Joetsu University of Education.

• Nakazato, Michiko. 2002. Onomatope-no tagisei-to imi-henka: Kinsei/kindai-no mazimazi-o rei-ni [Polysemy and change of meanings on onomatopoeia: In the case of mazimazi]. Bulletin of Joetsu University of Education 22, 1: 268-282. Joetsu University of Education.

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• Nakazato, Michiko. 2004b. Onomatope-no imi-syukusyoo: Wakuwaku-o rei-ni [Reduction of meanings on onomatopoeia: In the case of wakuwaku].Bulletin of Joetsu University of Education 23, 2: 830-842. Joetsu University of Education.

• Nakazato, Michiko. 2005. Seizyaku/tinmoku-o arawasu onomatope: Wago-kei/kango-kei-onomatope- no kakawari-kara [Onomatopoeias of quietness and silence: Relation between onomatopeias of Japanese origin and those of Chinese origin]. Bulletin of Joetsu University of Education 24, 2: 353-366. Joetsu University of Education.

• Nakazato, Michiko. 2006. Onomatope-ni miru kango-no eikyoo: Wago-kei onomatope-to kango-kei onomatope-no kakawari [The influence of a word of Chinese origin in onomatopoeia: The relations of the onomatopoeia of Japanese origin and the onomatopoeia of Chinese origin]. Bulletin of Joetsu University of Education 25, 2: 341-353. Joetsu University of Education.

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• Watanabe, Masamichi. 1999. Kawa-o naze kawa-to iu-ka: Nihongo seisei-genri-no hakken [Why is a river called kawa? Discovery of the principle of generation of Japanese]. Tokyo: Shinjinbutsu Oraisha.

• Yamaguchi, Nakami. 1973. Tyuuko syootyoosi-no go’on-koozoo: Seidaku-ni mondai-no aru gorei-o tyuusin-ni [The phonemic structure of onomatopoeia in the Heian Period: With special reference to surds and sonants]. Kokugogaku [Studies in the Japanese language] 93: 17-47.

• Yamaguchi, Nakami. 1985. Aisetu-na tori-goe (2) [Pathetic birdsongs, Part 2]. Nihongogaku 4, 4: 88-97.

• Yamaguchi, Nakami. 1986a. Koten-no giongo/gitaigo: Kake-kotoba-siki-no yoohoo-o tyuusin-ni [Mimetics in classic writings: Focusing on the fixed uses]. Nihongogaku 5, 7: 13-22.

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Special Issues of Journals

• Gengo [Language monthly] 22, 6. 1993. Onomatope: Giongo/gitaigo-no katuryoku-o kaimei suru [Onomatopoeia: Explicating the vitality of mimetics]. Tokyo: Taishukan Shoten.

• Gengo [Language monthly] 30, 9. 2001. Tanosii onomatope-no sekai: Giongo/gitaigo-no situkan-o aziwau [The interesting world of onomaopoeia: Tasting the nuances of mimetics]. Tokyo: Taishukan Shoten.

• Gengo-seikatu [Language life] 171. 1965. Giseigo/gitaigo [Mimetics]. Tokyo: Chikuma Shoten.

• Kokubungaku 53, 14. 2008. Onomatope [Onomatopoeia]. Tokyo: Gakutosha.

• Kotoba-no utyuu [The universe of language] 3, 10. 1968. Teema = gitaigo [Theme = mimetics]. Tokyo: Labo Education Center, Tokyo Institute for Advanced Studies of Language.

• Nihongogaku [Japanese linguistics] 5, 7. 1986. Tokusyuu: Giongo/gitaigo [Special feature article: Mimetics].

• Nihongogaku [Japanese linguistics] 26, 6. 2007. Tokusyuu: Onomatope-to nihongo-kyooiku [Special feature article: Onomatopoeia and Japanese language education].

• Nihongo-kyooiku [Journal of Japanese language teaching] 68. 1989. Tokusyuu: Giongo/gitaigo: Nihongo-kyoozai-to site-no onsyootyoogo [Special feature article: Onomatopoeia: Sound-symbolic words as teaching material in Japanese language education]. Tokyo: The Society for Teaching Japanese as a Foreign Language.

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Dictionaries

• Akutsu, Satoru. 1994. E-de wakaru giongo/gitaigo [A practical guide to mimetic expressions through pictures]. Tokyo: Alc.

• Amanuma, Yasushi, ed. 1973. Giongo/gitaigo ziten [A dictionary of mimetics]. Tokyo: Tokyodo.

• Asano, Tsuruko, ed. 1978. Giongo/gitaigo ziten [A dictionary of mimetics]. Tokyo: Kadokawa.

• Atoda, Minoko, and Kazuko Hoshino. 1995. Giongo/gitaigo tukaikata-ziten [A dictionary of the usage of mimetics]. Tokyo: Sotakusha.

• Chang, Andrew C. 1990. A Thesaurus of Japanese Mimesis and Onomatopoeia: Usage by Categories. Tokyo: Taishukan Shoten.

• Fujita, Takashi, and Shinichi Akiho. 1984. Wa-ei giongo/gitaigo hon’yaku-ziten [A Japanese-English translation dictionary of mimetics]. Tokyo: Kinseido.

• Fukuda, Hiroko. 1993. Flip, Slither, and Bang: Japanese Sound and Action Words. Tokyo: Kodansha America/Europe. (republished in 2003 as Jazz Up Your Japanese with Onomatopoeia: For All Levels. Tokyo/New York/London: Kodansha International.)

• Gomi, Taro. 1989. Eigo-zin-to nihongo-zin-no-tame-no nihongo-gitaigo ziten [A dictionary of Japanese mimetics for English- and Japanese-minded tribes]. Tokyo: The Japan Times.

• Hamano, Shoko. 1997. Linguistic analysis and lexicography of iconic expressions: A review of Dictionary of Iconic Expressions in Japanese, edited by Hisao Kakehi, Ikuhiro Tamori, and Lawrence Schourup. The Journal of the Association of Teachers of Japanese 31, 1: 45-56.

• Hasse, Mitsuko, and Haruko Nakaune. 2006. Mittii-no kotoba-asobi: Hirahira kirari: Giongo/gitaigo (onomatopoeia) 1, 2, 3 [Michey’s word play: Hirahira kirari: Mimetics (onomatopoeia) 1, 2, 3]. Tokyo: Fuzambo International.

• Herlofsky, William John. 1984. Review: Nichi-ei taishoo giseigo (onomatope) jiten [Japanese-English contrastive onomatopoeia dictionary] edited by Yuichi Mito, Hisao Kakehi, Setsuo Subo, Masaki Tochiku, Mitsuaki Hayase, and Roy Young (Tokyo: Gakushoo, 1981). Papers in Linguistics 17, 3: 317-328.

• Hida, Yoshifumi, and Hideko Asada, eds. 2002. Gendai giongo/gitaigo yoohoo-ziten [A dictionary of the usage of current mimetics]. Tokyo: Tokyodo.

• Jin, Mu-Zhen. 2007. Ri yu ni sheng ni tai fu ci ci dian [A dictionary of Japanese mimetic adverbs]. Beijing: The Commercial Press.

• Kakehi, Hisao, Ikuhiro Tamori, and Lawrence Schourup. 1996. Dictionary of Iconic Expressions in Japanese. Berlin/New York: Mouton de Gruyter.

• Makita, Tomoyuki. 2004. Giongo/gitaigo zisyo: A Dictionary with Illustrations Photographs and Stories Inspired by 969 Words [A dictionary of mimetics]. Tokyo: PIE Books.

• Mito, Yuichi, and Hisao Kakehi., eds. 1981. Niti-/ei-taisyoo giseigo (onomatope) ziten [A dictionary of Japanese/English mimetics (onomatopoeia)]. Tokyo: Gaku Shobo.

• Mizuniwa, Susumu. 1993. Gendai-haiku gion/gitaigo ziten [A dictionary of mimetics in modern haiku]. Tokyo: Hakuyusha.

• Ono, Hidekazu, ed. 1984. Niti-/ei gion-/gitaigo katuyoo-ziten [A dictionary of the usage of Japanese/English mimetics]. Tokyo: Hokuseido.

• Ono, Masahiro, ed. 2007. Giongo/gitaigo 4500: Nihongo onomatope ziten [Mimetics 4500: A dictionary of Japanese onomatopoeia]. Tokyo: Shogakukan.

• Suleski, Ronald, and Hiroko Masada. 1982. Affective Expressions in Japanese: A Handbook of Value-Laden Words in Everyday Japanese. Tokyo: The Hokuseido Press.

• Shiraishi, Daiji, ed. 1982. Giseigo/gitaigo kan’yooku ziten [A dictionary of mimetic idioms]. Tokyo: Tokyodo.

• Tsuji, Sanae. 2003. Les impressifs japonais: Analyse de gitaigo et inventaire des impressifs japonais. Lyon: Presses universitatire de Lyon.

• Yamaguchi, Nakami. 2003. Kurasi-no kotoba: Gion-/gitaigo ziten [Language of life: A dictionary of mimetics]. Tokyo: Kodansha.

• Yamaguchi, Nakami, and Yuki Sato. 2006. Giongo/gitaigo tukaiwake-tyoo [A handbook for the proper usage of mimetics]. Tokyo: Sankaido.

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Websites

• Bad Guy. 1997-present. Macaronomatopoeia: Onomatopoetic English-Japanese Dicitonary. (http:// www.badguy.jp/onomato/onomato_f.html)

• Kansai Onomatope Tomonokai (Kansai Onomatopoeia Club). 2008-2010. (http://www23.atwiki.jp/onotomo/pages/15.html; http://www2.kobe-u.ac.jp/~073l106l/mimeticclub.html)

• The National Institute for Japanese Language. 2004-2007. Nihongo-o tanosimoo: Giongo-tte? Gitaigo-tte? [Let’s enjoy Japanese: What is giongo? What is gitaigo?]. (http://www.kokken.go.jp/ nknet/Onomatope/index.html)

• Project O.T.A.K.U. 2007-2008. Japanese sound effects and what they mean. (http://oceanmoon. wordpress.com/2007/12/22/japanese-sound-effects-and-what-they-mean/)

• Watanabe’s Laboratory. 2007-present. Onomatopedia: Online Onomatopoeia Dictionary. Ochanomizu University. (http://www.onomatopedia.net/dictionary)

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