ideophone

[语]摹拟音, 象音成份(许多非洲语言的一种表意法, 借助一种重复的声音去创造行为、事物的形象)

发音

UK /ˈɪ.di.(j)ə(ʊ)ˌfəʊn/
其它

词形变化

ideophones 复数 ideophones

释义与例句

n.
  1. 1.

    A word that uses sound symbolism to express aspects of events that can be experienced by the senses, like smell, color, shape, sound, action, or movement.

    摹拟音

    语言学

    1969 October, William J. Samarin, The Art of Gbeya Insults, in International Journal of American Linguistics 35(4), page 325, JSTOR In insults the ideophone occurs either in its characteristic position, the verb phrase, or uncharacteristically as a modifier in a noun phrase.

词源

From ideo- + -phone. James F. Fordyce (The Ideophone as a Phonosemantic Class: The Case of Yoruba, in Current approaches to African linguistics, Ivan R. Dihoff (ed.), page 263) credits C. M. Doke with introducing the term in 1935.

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