echoism

English

echo +‎ -ism

echoism (countable and uncountable, plural echoisms)

The practice of creating words or language by imitating sounds from the environment.
- 1999, Marcel Danesi, Paul Perron, Analyzing Cultures: An Introduction and Handbook, page 139:
  One possibility is that language developed from echoism, i.e. from attempts of early humans to imitate natural sounds and react vocally to emotions.
- 2011, Karl Bühler, Theory of Language: The Representational Function of Language:
  That is the simple account of the motivation for the phenomenon of sound symbolism or echoism.

单词	echoism
释义	echoism English Etymology echo +‎ -ism Noun echoism (countable and uncountable, plural echoisms) The practice of creating words or language by imitating sounds from the environment. 1999, Marcel Danesi, Paul Perron, Analyzing Cultures: An Introduction and Handbook, page 139: One possibility is that language developed from echoism, i.e. from attempts of early humans to imitate natural sounds and react vocally to emotions. 2011, Karl Bühler, Theory of Language: The Representational Function of Language: That is the simple account of the motivation for the phenomenon of sound symbolism or echoism.
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