2018•Roczniki HumanistyczneOpen access

Sound Symbolism and Meaning Patterns: The Case of Hungarian Verbs

Hajnalka Dimény

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"Onomatopoeic formations are never organic elements of a linguistic system," appears in Saussure's General linguistics, "besides, their number is much smaller than is generally supposed", he adds (Saussure 1959, 69). Consequently, these linguistic elements have been neglected ever since then in linguistic studies. In my paper, I would like to show that these elements can lead us to detecting basic linguistic phenomena that have not been studied yet, and to present an approach to a linguistic system that does not exclude onomatopoeic formations, but is based on them.

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Key concepts: Onomatopoeia, Linguistics, Meaning (existential), Sound (geography), Sound symbolism, Theoretical linguistics, Philosophy, Psychology