نوع مقاله : مقاله پژوهشی
نویسنده
گروه زبان ,و ادبیات انگلیسی، دانشکده ادبیات و علوم انسانی، دانشگاه یاسوج، یاسوج، ایران
چکیده
کلیدواژهها
عنوان مقاله [English]
نویسنده [English]
While there is no doubt that onomatopoeias are considered one of the linguistic universals, these phonetic components have received less attention in research. The limited studies conducted have either focused on defining onomatopoeias and their formal and structural characteristics or investigated their semantic aspects within the framework of semantics and sound-symbolism approach, assuming a systematic relationship between the form and meaning of onomatopoeias. In this study, onomatopoeias are deemed as pragmatic phenomena, and an effort has been made to analyze Persian onomatopoeia based on the relevance-theoretic lexical pragmatic approach in order to demonstrate what content these linguistic elements encode in discourse. The data examined in this research has been extracted from the Dictionary of Onomatopoeia in Persian, and the analyses reveal that onomatopoeias do not always convey their predetermined linguistic meanings; rather, their meanings need to be retrieved in discourse. In other words, interpreting onomatopoeic elements and reaching the speaker’s intended meaning by using onomatopoeias in discourse requires triggering an ad hoc concept construction process. The output of the process, i.e., an ad hoc concept formed by considering context and other components of utterance and in searching for relevance, is accompanied by broadening and/or narrowing the linguistic meaning of onomatopoeias.
کلیدواژهها [English]
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