phonaesthesia

English

Alternative forms

phonesthesia

Etymology

Apparently coined by British linguist John Rupert Firth.

Noun

phonaesthesia (uncountable)

(linguistics) Any correspondence between the sound of a word and its meaning; examples include onomatopoeia and the use of phonaesthemes.
- 1984, Laurence Picken, Musica Asiatica, Volume 4, page 214,
  For this latter term, phonaesthesia is doubtless at work, since kring is also ‘the sound of a small bell’.
- 2010, Katie Wales, Northern English in Writing, Raymond Hickey (editor), Varieties of English in Writing: The written word as linguistic evidence, page 74,
  In contrast, writers of bucolic dialogues, like George Meriton, for instance, and lively song-writers like Robert Anderson in Cumberland, seem drawn to expressive lexis, marked by sound patterns of reduplication, alliteration and phonaesthesia.
- 2011, Prue Goodwin, The Literate Classroom, page 41,
  Phonaesthesia refers to the vaguer phenomenon whereby families of words with shared phonemes sometimes evoke related meanings in a not-quite-echoic manner.
- 2011, Jean Boase-Beier, A Critical Introduction to Translation Studies, page 11,
  Those in (1.15) illustrate a weaker type of iconicity, generally known as phonaesthesia: the consonant cluster ‘fl’ seems to suggest quick movement, but it is not a direct representation of movement, or speed.

Synonyms

sound symbolism
synaesthesia

Derived terms

phonaesthetic
phonaesthetics

Related terms

ideophone
phonaestheme

单词	phonaesthesia
释义	phonaesthesia English Alternative forms phonesthesia Etymology Apparently coined by British linguist John Rupert Firth. Noun phonaesthesia (uncountable) (linguistics) Any correspondence between the sound of a word and its meaning; examples include onomatopoeia and the use of phonaesthemes. 1984, Laurence Picken, Musica Asiatica, Volume 4, page 214, For this latter term, phonaesthesia is doubtless at work, since kring is also ‘the sound of a small bell’. 2010, Katie Wales, Northern English in Writing, Raymond Hickey (editor), Varieties of English in Writing: The written word as linguistic evidence, page 74, In contrast, writers of bucolic dialogues, like George Meriton, for instance, and lively song-writers like Robert Anderson in Cumberland, seem drawn to expressive lexis, marked by sound patterns of reduplication, alliteration and phonaesthesia. 2011, Prue Goodwin, The Literate Classroom, page 41, Phonaesthesia refers to the vaguer phenomenon whereby families of words with shared phonemes sometimes evoke related meanings in a not-quite-echoic manner. 2011, Jean Boase-Beier, A Critical Introduction to Translation Studies, page 11, Those in (1.15) illustrate a weaker type of iconicity, generally known as phonaesthesia: the consonant cluster ‘fl’ seems to suggest quick movement, but it is not a direct representation of movement, or speed. Synonyms sound symbolism synaesthesia Derived terms phonaesthetic phonaesthetics Related terms ideophone phonaestheme
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