Slides for ‘How To Do Things With Ideophones’

June 22nd, 2009
by Mark Dingemanse

Slides for a talk titled How To Do Things With Ideophones, presented at SOAS, June 3, 2009. Without the actual talk most of the slides will be either underspecified or dense, but since people have asked for them, here they are. I also have a handout (PDF) containing the conversational extracts referred to in the presentation. Comments most welcome!

(I've embedded this presentation using Slideshare.net. If you'd rather have a copy of the slides, let me know.)

This presentation can be cited as follows:

  1. Dingemanse, Mark. 2009. How To Do Things With Ideophones: Observations on the use of vivid sensory language in Siwu, presented at the SOAS Research Seminar, June 3, London.

One Response to “Slides for ‘How To Do Things With Ideophones’”

  1. What do we really know about ideophones? — The Ideophone on September 1, 2009 1:49 pm

    [...] Slides for my recent presentation at the 6th World Congress of African Linguistics. Incomprehensible without the handout. Since this is an overview talk, there is some overlap with presentations given in Berkeley (RRG Conference, August 9) and London (SOAS, June 3). [...]

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