This is a the second part in a two part series of peer commentary on a recent preprint.
One of the benefits of today’s preprint culture is that it is possible to provide constructive critique of pending work before it is out. This post is written in that spirit.
Making and breaking iconicity was the theme of a plenary lecture I gave at the 6th conference of the Scandinavian Association…
Here’s the abstract for the keynote lecture I’ll be giving at the 11th Symposium on Iconicity in Language and Literature in…
Ideophones —vivid sensory words found in many of the world’s languages— are often described as having little or no morphosyntax.…
We have a new paper out. It’s actually been available since February in an online-first version, but for those of…
We have a new paper out in Language: Dingemanse, Mark, Will Schuerman, Eva Reinisch, Sylvia Tufvesson, and Holger Mitterer. 2016.…
Note to readers: A version of this argument has been written up and published as: Dingemanse, Mark. 2015. “Ideophones and…
Just out: a review of ideophone research by yours truly, titled Advances in the cross-linguistic study of ideophones, published in…
Ideophones, like so many things in life, are easy to identify but hard to define. Here I describe the process of iterating on a definition of this phenomenon in search of a formulation that is useful in cross-linguistic research.
Just out: a new issue of SemiotiX, the e-journal on all things semiotic edited by prof. Paul Bouissac. Among other…
Update: SemiotiX issue XN-8 features a revised and expanded version of this essay. The linguistic blogosphere featured some posts recently…
This long overdue instalment of Ideophones around the web features ideophones in the names of snappy new mobile apps from…
I loved Daniel Tammet’s second book Embracing The Wide Sky (2009). In his own words, Embracing The Wide Sky is “a…
Lɛkɛrɛɛ and lukuruu are two Siwu ideophones depicting imagery of being well-rounded. But they differ in degree. One of them…
Just out: A new issue of the journal Senses & Society, featuring research by a dozen contributors to the Language…
On the whole, however, it is safer to see ideophones and similar sounds as proof of their users’ sensitive feeling…
Up next week: the Seventh Biennial Symposium on Iconicity in Language and Literature (programme here), at Victoria College, University of…
If you’re in London and able to come to SOAS at short notice, there will be two talks on ideophones…
Just a quick follow-up on my earlier post. Foroni & Semin (in press, Psychological Science) do what I hoped somebody…