FONOSEMANTICA La fonosemantica è la branca della linguistica che studia le cause del fonosimbolismo e le sue applicazioni nella comunicazione verbale. (Leonardi, 2013) Phonosemantics is a branch of psycholinguistics. It is based on the assumption that every sound and every letter may be pleasant or unpleasant, round or sharp, hot or cold. The results of the experiments in phonosemantics show how the phonetic forms of brand names or trademarks are correlated with the commercial product they represent. (almex.net) Phonosemantics is a portmanteau word which suggests the meaning that comes from sounds. The idea that individual vocal sounds have meaning is not a new idea. You can find precedents in the Upaniṣads and in Plato. However it is not a popular idea amongst linguists who deny the possibility of such a relationship. (visiblemantra.org) FONOSIMBOLISMO Il fonosimbolismo è un fenomeno linguistico che consiste in un rapporto di analogia tra la forma sonora delle parole e i significati che esse veicolano. In tal senso costituisce una forma di iconismo fonologico. (Leonardi, 2013) Il fonosimbolismo o simbolismo fonetico è la proprietà, che i suoni linguistici possiedono, di simboleggiare, mediante le loro qualità acustiche ed articolatorie, il valore semantico che veicolano. (wikipedia) Sound symbolism or phonosemantics is a branch of linguistics and refers to the idea that vocal sounds have meaning. In particular, sound symbolism is the idea that phonemes (the written representations of sounds, transcribed between slashes like this: /b/) carry meaning in and of themselves. (wikipedia) Sound symbolism or phonosemantics is an obscure branch of linguistics and refers to the idea that vocal sounds have meaning. An important concept for understanding this idea is phoneme: Phonemes are written between slashes like this /b/. (knowledgerush.com) FONESTEMA The term phonestheme (or phonaestheme in British English) was coined in 1930 by British linguist J. R. Firth (from the Greek φωνή phone, "sound", and αἴσθημα aisthema, "perception" from αίσθάνομαι aisthanomai, "I perceive") to label the systematic pairing of form and meaning in a language. A phonestheme is different from a morpheme because it does not meet the normal criterion of compositionality. Within Peirce's "theory of signs" the phonestheme is considered to be an "icon" rather than a "symbol" or an "index". (wikipedia) L'iconicità fonologica concerne la capacità dei suoni linguistici di partecipare alla raffigurazione dei significati che esprimono. Per esempio ruvido e liscio si oppongono come una consonante vibrante [r] (caratterizzata da un'articolazione e da uno spettro acustico interrotti) a una consonante laterale [l] (caratterizzata da un'articolazione e da uno spettro continui) e, inoltre, come una consonante occlusiva [d] (che interrompe il flusso dell'aria) a una consonante fricativa [ʃ] (che non lo interrompe). L'iconicità fonologica prende anche il nome di fonosimbolismo e costituisce l'oggetto di studio della fonosemantica. La massima iconicità si ha nelle onomatopee. (wikipedia) Ideophones are a type of words used by speakers to convey a vivid impression of a certain sensation or sensory perception, e.g. smell, color, shape, sound, action, or movement. Ideophones are attested in all languages of the world, however, languages differ in the extent to which they make use of them. Because of this, some linguists do not think it is useful to talk about a universal 'class' of ideophones, and maintain that the concept makes sense only within the context of an individual language. In this narrow sense, the validity of the class of ideophones is rarely disputed. The word class of ideophones is often called phonosemantic to indicate that it is not a grammatical word class in the traditional sense of the word (like 'verb' or 'noun'), but rather a grouping based on form and meaning. (wikipedia) |