Onomatopoeia and Relevance: Communication of Impressions via Sound

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This book aims to provide an account of both what and how onomatopoeia communicate by applying ideas from the relevance theoretic framework of utterance interpretation. It focuses on two main aspects of the topic: the contribution that onomatopoeia make to communication and the nature of multimodal communication. This is applied in three domains (food discourse, visual culture in Asia and translation) in the final sections of the book. It will be of interest to scholars working in the fields of pragmatics, semantics, cognitive linguistics, stylistics, philosophy of language, literature, translation, and Asian studies. Front Matter ....Pages i-xvi Introduction (Ryoko Sasamoto)....Pages 1-16 Onomatopoeia and Sound Symbolism (Ryoko Sasamoto)....Pages 17-38 Onomatopoeia, the Showing–Saying Continuum, and Perceptual Resemblance (Ryoko Sasamoto)....Pages 39-79 Semantics and Pragmatics of Onomatopoeia (Ryoko Sasamoto)....Pages 81-116 Synaesthesia, Onomatopoeia, and Food Writing (Ryoko Sasamoto)....Pages 117-150 Onomatopoeia and the Showing–Saying of Japanese Culture (Ryoko Sasamoto)....Pages 151-180 Onomatopoeia and Translation: A Corpus Approach (Ryoko Sasamoto)....Pages 181-222 Conclusion (Ryoko Sasamoto)....Pages 223-228 Back Matter ....Pages 229-259