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Sound Symbolism
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Sound Symbolism 

a conditional interrelationship between the sound of a word and its emotional coloring. Sound symbolism is used in poetic speech; for example, the sound of l is “appropriate” for designating something soft, tender, and poetic (for example, K. Bal’mont’s use of sound symbolism with l:S lodki skol’znulo veslo, “The oar slipped from the boat”).
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In 'n boek Gods of the word--archetypes in the consonants (Magnus, 1999) word gegewens aangaande die verband tussen klank en betekenis ondersoek as manifestasies van die marginale studieterrein van sound symbolism of phonosemantics.
Words as signs and signatures--iconicity in poetic texts/Woorde wat ... by du Plooy, Heilna / Literator: Journal of Literary Criticism, comparative linguistics and literary studies
 
 
 
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