| Title |
Le statut grammatical des onomatopées dans la linguistique moderne / |
| Translation of Title |
Gramatinis onomatopėjų statusas šiuolaikinėje lingvistikoje. |
| Translation of Title |
The grammatical status of onomatopoeias in modern linguistics. |
| Authors |
Melnikienė, Danguolė |
| DOI |
10.15388/Verb.2015.6.8816 |
| Full Text |
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| Is Part of |
Verbum.. Vilnius : Vilniaus universiteto leidykla. 2015, Nr. 6, p. 168-188.. ISSN 2029-6223 |
| Keywords [eng] |
modal and dictal interjections ; onomatopoeias ; imitative or expressive functions |
| Abstract [eng] |
Onomatopoeias – language-specific words that phonetically imitate animal noises or sounds from human daily life – have stimulated the imagination of many philosophers and linguists for centuries. This article is dedicated to one of the most problematic aspects in the study of onomatopoeias, i.e. that of their linguistic status. Although onomatopoeias were already mentioned by the ancient Greeks, for example in Plato’s dialogue “ Cratylus “, this interest was rather linked to an inquiry into the very nature of language. Trying to find the origins of language and to imagine what the lingua Adamica could have been, ancient philosophers often took high interest in onomatopoeias, these combinations of primitive sounds that would come out of the mouth of the first human beings. Theories of onomatopoeic glotto-genesis, remaining fairly vivid for centuries, were subject to detailed assessments, while onomatopoeias, despite being at the centre of these theories, were often neglected as linguistic units. As they were incorporated into the grammatical class of interjections, onomatopoeias lost their grammatical and functional specificity. In this article based on current linguistic research, we make an attempt to draw a clearer dividing line within this grammatical class between interjections per se (modal ones) and dictal interjections (namely, non-lexicalized onomatopoeias). We believe that this could be achieved, provided that their respective functions are never neglected: that is, the imitative function of the former and the expressive capacity of the later. |
| Published |
Vilnius : Vilniaus universiteto leidykla |
| Type |
Journal article |
| Language |
French |
| Publication date |
2015 |
| CC license |
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