Sounds Like Life :Sound-symbolic Grammar, Performance, and Cognition in Pastaza Quechua - Oxford Studies in Anthropological Linguistics

Sounds Like Life

Sounds Like Life :Sound-symbolic Grammar, Performance, and Cognition in Pastaza Quechua - Oxford Studies in Anthropological Linguistics

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Published: 19 September, 1996
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Nuckolls studies the occurrence of sound-symbolic words - words that bear resemblance to phenomena they attempt to describe - in an Ecuadorian dialect of Quechua, a major South American language. She explores how the speakers describe everyday experience and how sound-symbolism is integral to their way of thinking and speaking.
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Type Book
ISBN13 9780195089851
ISBN10 0195089855
Number Of Pages 312
Item Weight 635 g
Product Dimensions 163 x 244 x 30 mm
Publisher / Reseller Oxford University Press Inc
Format hardback
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The book speaks for the value of intensively conducted linguistic field research, evocatively encourages our reassessments of dichotomic theories about language, and will doubtless occupy quite a unique place on the shelves of Quechua studies for some years to come. * Anthropological Linguistics *

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