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4 produkter
Sounds Like Life
Sound-symbolic Grammar, Performance, and Cognition in Pastaza Quechua
Inbunden, 1996
1280 kr
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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 …
Sounds Like Life
Sound-Symbolic Grammar, Performance, and Cognition in Pastaza Quechua
E-bok, 1996
789 kr
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Sound-symbolism occurs when words resemble the sounds associated with the phenomena they attempt to describe, rather than an arbitrary representation. For example the word raven is arbitrary in that it does not resemble a raven; cuckoo , however, is sound -symbolic in that it resembles the bird''s …
Amazonian Quichua Language and Life
Introduction to Grammar, Ecology, and Discourse from Pastaza and Upper Napo, Ecuador
Av Janis B. Nuckolls, Tod D. Swanson
Häftad, 2022
531 kr
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In Amazonian Quichua Language and Life: Introduction to Grammar, Ecology, and Discourse from Pastaza and Upper Napo, Janis B. Nuckolls and Tod D. Swanson discuss two varieties of Quichua, an indigenous Ecuadorian language. Drawing on their linguistic and anthropological knowledge, extensive …
Lessons from a Quechua Strongwoman
Ideophony, Dialogue and Perspective
Inbunden, 2010
612 kr
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Using the intriguing stories and words of a Quechua-speaking woman named Luisa Cadena from the Pastaza Province of Ecuador, Janis B. Nuckolls reveals a complex language system in which ideophony, dialogue, and perspective are all at the core of cultural and grammatical communications amongAmazonian …
