John Haiman is the author of Hua: A Papuan Language of the Eastern Highlands of New Guinea (1980), The Rhaeto-Romance Languages (with Paola Beninca, 1992) and Cambodian: Khmer (2011). He pioneered the resurgence of interest in iconicity in language with Natural Syntax (Cambridge, 1985), and was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship 1989 for the study of sarcasm, which resulted in his book Talk Is Cheap (1998).
Inhaltsangabe
1. The gestural origin theory of language genesis 2. What are ideophones? 3. Lexical origins of ideophones 4. Suiting the word to the action: oral charades 5. Ideophones as a possible solution to the ritualization problem 6. Taming ideophones: from showing to telling 7. Repetition in the genesis of signs, art, and ideophones.
1. The gestural origin theory of language genesis 2. What are ideophones? 3. Lexical origins of ideophones 4. Suiting the word to the action: oral charades 5. Ideophones as a possible solution to the ritualization problem 6. Taming ideophones: from showing to telling 7. Repetition in the genesis of signs, art, and ideophones.
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