The Ideophone

Sounding out ideas on language, vivid sensory words, and iconicity

Category: Slides

Slides on ideophones and reduplication

Slides for a plenary I gave at the Total Reduplication workshop organised by Daniela Rossi. The other plenary speakers were David Gil (MPI-EVA), Thomas Stolz (U. Bremen), and Silvia Kouwenberg (UWI, Mona).

November 20, 2012
Curse or blessing? Africa’s linguistic heritage in the 21st century

Slides for a plenary address delivered at the 2011 African Studies Day, organised by the Netherlands Association of African Studies. The theme of the day was “Africa’s cultural heritage”.

September 17, 2012
Slides for ‘Ideophones in unexpected places’

Slides for my recent paper ‘Ideophones in unexpected places’, presented at LDLT2 in London, November 13-14. Though the inquisitive rooster in the title slide may not be looking for them, there are ideophones for just about any salient feature depicted in this scene. But what are people using them for? And what specialized uses may…

November 25, 2009
Slides for ‘The interaction of syntax and expressivity in Siwu ideophones’

Slides for a talk titled The interaction of syntax and expressivity in Siwu ideophones, presented in Berkeley at the 2009 International Conference on RRG, August 9, 2009. The handout can be downloaded here. The slides are also available as a PDF file. You can cite this presentation as follows: Dingemanse, Mark. 2009. “The interaction of…

September 10, 2009