Rah-rah! Investigating the variation in phonosemantic motivation in a set of iconic nouns expressing the concept . A diachronic semantic approach
This paper aims to describe and compare phonosemantic motivation in the English lexicon within a group of nouns expressing enthusiasm. From an emergent cognitive usage-based perspective (Bybee [2013], Traugott [2014] and Schmid [2020]), the lexicon is motivated by multiple motivational ties that are...
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| Language: | English |
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Université Jean Moulin - Lyon 3
2024-04-01
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| Series: | Lexis: Journal in English Lexicology |
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| Online Access: | https://journals.openedition.org/lexis/7929 |
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