Re: The Myth of Arbitrariness
- From: Vincent Ramos <siva_sans_spam@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 28 Oct 2005 01:41:32 +0200
Dr. Jamshid Ibrahim égrapsen en
<1130428195.828105.128930@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> :
> Thanks Vincent. Have you got this chapter as a digital file or would
you recommend the book? When was it published?
I only possess a paperback edition of the book. I really recommend it:
R. Jakobson and L. Waugh, _The sound shape of language_, ISBN
2-7073-0281-3. You may buy it on Amazon (or any other online
bookseller):
<http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/3110172852/104-0652232-3447132?v=glance&n=283155&n=507846&s=books&v=glance>.
The chapter I was talking about lately shows how deep are
relationships between sounds and language, from phonetics and
phonology point of view to litterature and especially poetry, where
sounds may convey a certain cloud of meanings without needing to be
related to words. For instance, words with an /i/ tend to be
associated with thin things, though words with /u/ are felt as big
(Jakobson names this a "phonic symbolism").
Jespersen also worked on this subject, in _Symbolic value of the vowel
i_ (1922 for the first edition); see also Sommerfelt and Sapir.
The end of the book may also be a good introduction to stylistics.
--
apt-get moo
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