Ideophones and the aesthetics of everyday language in a West-African society

Senses and Society

Volumn 6, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 77-85

  Dingemanse, Mark ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR PSYCHOLINGUISTICS   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Aesthetics; Discourse; Ideophones; Language of perception; Semantic categories; Siwu

Indexed keywords

EID: 79951782591     PISSN: 17458927     EISSN: 17458935     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2752/174589311X12893982233830     Document Type: Article

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