Part III: Meaning

Part III couples a variety of elicitation methods with folk definitions, a pile-sorting task, and evidence from meta-linguistic comments to yield a more comprehensive view of the meanings of ideophones in Siwu.

  1. Ideophones and iconicity
    Supplements: audio clips data extracts
  2. Eliciting ideophones: the Language of Perception tasks
    Supplements: Figure 8.1 (colour version)
  3. Determining the meaning of ideophones: folk definitions
    Supplements: Video clips of selected folk definitions; Figure 9.1 (colour version)
  4. Conceptual structuring in ideophones: a pile sorting task
    Supplements: Figure 10.1 (high resolution); Figure 10.2 (high resolution); photos of the pile-sorting task