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Sounds Like Life: Sound-symbolic Grammar, Performance, and Cognition in Pastaza Quechua - Oxford Studies in Anthropological Linguistics Nuckolls, Janis B. (Professor of Anthropology, Professor of Anthropology, University of Alabama at Birmingham)
Sounds Like Life: Sound-symbolic Grammar, Performance, and Cognition in Pastaza Quechua - Oxford Studies in Anthropological Linguistics
Nuckolls, Janis B. (Professor of Anthropology, Professor of Anthropology, University of Alabama at Birmingham)
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 way of thinking and speaking.
312 pages, 40 line drawings, bibliography
| Media | Books Hardcover Book (Book with hard spine and cover) |
| Released | September 19, 1996 |
| ISBN13 | 9780195089851 |
| Publishers | Oxford University Press Inc |
| Pages | 312 |
| Dimensions | 160 × 235 × 25 mm · 618 g |
| Language | English |