Diagrammatic Iconicity in EkeGusii: A relation between the structure of form and meaning

作     者：Elijah Omwansa Mariera Evans Gesura Mecha George Morara Anyona 

作者机构：Kisii UniversityKenya 

出 版 物：《宏观语言学》 (Macrolinguistics)

年 卷 期：2021年第9卷第1期

页      面：84-100页

学科分类：0502[文学-外国语言文学] 050201[文学-英语语言文学] 05[文学] 

主　　题：elisive reduplication phonaesthesia echoic transparency diagram gestalt and relative iconicity 

摘      要：This paper mainly presents evidence for a relationship between language structure and meaning in EkeGusii,a Bantu language spoken in *** main argument is that the structure of language mirrors the structure of reality.A brief overview of other scholars demonstrates that diagrammatic iconicity shows universal *** main ideas run down the ***,in EkeGusii,speakers sub-consciously cluster sounds around related meanings,evidencing gestalt and relative ***,there is evidence of overlap of morphological and phonetic iconicity,an aspect of ***,reduplication in certain infinitives demonstrates the reality of phono-iconicity in EkeGusii,augmented by unpleasant sound ***,certain onomatopes in EkeGusii are actually diagrammatic,indicating that there is no one stop criterion for classifying overlapping types of *** finally,the paper posits that iconicity intersects with arbitrariness showing that language has both motivated and discrete symbols.