The enactive iconicity of ideophone semantics AbstractThis chapter reviews the existing research on the semantics of ideophones, a class of words that communicate sensory perceptions, emotions, and cog

Also out now, new work by Janis Nuckolls on the #semantics of #ideophones as "multifactorial iconic ‘packages’...enacted anew with every performative token", love it!

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New special issue on ideophones

📣New publication on #ideophones
Don't miss this fantastic issue on #motion and #ideophones across #languages in the Journal of Cognitive Semantics @degruyter_brill

@selenlared.bsky.social
@zaragozaling.bsky.social
¡¡¡It's #OpenAccess!!!
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New book on ideophones Williams, J. P (ed.). 2025. Capturing expressivity. Contents, methods, and techniques for linguistic research. OUP. https://global.oup.com/academic/product/capturing-expressivity-9780192858931?cc=es&lang=en&

New book on ideophones: TOC Williams, J. P (ed.). 2025. Capturing expressivity. Contents, methods, and techniques for linguistic research. OUP. https://global.oup.com/academic/product/capturing-expressivity-9780192858931?cc=es&lang=en&

New book on ideophones Williams, J. P (ed.). 2025. Capturing expressivity. Contents, methods, and techniques for linguistic research. OUP. https://global.oup.com/academic/product/capturing-expressivity-9780192858931?cc=es&lang=en&

📢 New publication
Interested in #iconicity? Fascinated by #ideophones?
Craving for #fieldwork in this area?
Check out this book and ideas will come...
I explain how to conduct #psycholinguistic research in #minority languages such as #Basque
@oxfordacademic.bsky.social @psylexlab.bsky.social

Straight to the top of my reading pile: Some of my favourite linguists @superlinguo.bsky.social, Hildebrandt & @suzyjstyles.bsky.social with a new paper on spontaneous multimodal iconicity in earthquake narratives doi.org/10.1080/0726... #iconicity #ideophones

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Aquí te dejo un plan irresistible 😎
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#language #cognition #ideophones non- #weird languages #motivation #relativism #culture
@ucm.es
@unizar.es

So happy to see our chapter in Capturing Expressivity is now out! Our best dreams of all the wonderful ways you can explore #ideophones! 😍

Two panels (of a larger 8 panel illustration) showing two methods for ideophone research. Left, Multimodal corpus building, used for identifying ideophones, exploring usage domains, orienting ideophones in the wider linguistic system. Right: stimulus-based elicitation, useful for mapping the edges of the ideophone lexicon, uncovering limits, and exploring depictive conventions. Picture used for left is a camera with microphone on a tripod. For right, hands exploring materials (a sponge, a transparent foil) and a tablet showing the image of a waterfall.

New paper! @bonniemclean.bsky.social & Dingemanse 2025, A multi-methods toolkit for documentary research on ideophones — reviewing a diversity of methods and analytical approaches to the documentation of #ideophones.
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#iconicity

Quinceavo rasgo del euskara: 15. Palabras motivadas Tomado del artículo publicado en Archiletras 2024 (2): https://tienda.archiletras.com/producto/archiletras-numero-24/

📣🎯 #Hiloeuskara: un rasgo al día y este es especial: último rasgo del año

Rasgo 15. Palabras motivadas

O cuando descubres que el bacalao al #pilpil es mucho más que una salsa

#semántica #scicomm #basque #HiloEuskara #ideophones
@zaragozaling.bsky.social @archiletras

When #iconicity reaches branding...
Perfect blending between iconic #lengthening, #ideophones, and naming.
#Linguistics
Zorionak, @burutustyle.bsky.social

And if you like the scientific paper on how #iconicity works in #Basque #ideophones
Enjoy!
🔽
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https://www.academia.edu/110996532/2023_Vindicating_the_role_of_ideophones_as_a_typological_feature_of_Basque

Thanks, @simazhi.bsky.social!
@akinbosk.bsky.social, an updated summary of how this ( #ideophones ) works in #Basque can be found here:
bit.ly/490l4P5

Prompt: #ideophones every day

Selectively manipulating softness perception of materials through sound symbolism Cross-modal interactions between auditory and haptic perception manifest themselves in language, such as sound symbolic words: crunch, splash, and creak. Several studies have shown strong associations...

Turkish #ideophones alter softness perception, awesome!
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