Ideophone vs Phenomime - What's the difference?
ideophone | phenomime | Synonyms |
A word that utilizes sound symbolism to express aspects of events that can be experienced by the senses, like smell, color, shape, sound, action, or movement.
* 1969 October, William J. Samarin, The Art of Gbeya Insults'', in ''International Journal of American Linguistics 35(4), page 325, [http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0020-7071%28196910%2935%3A4%3C323%3ATAOGI%3E2.0.CO%3B2-4]
(linguistics) A word or phrase that mimics a certain physical form or motion
*{{quote-book, 1990, Masayoshi Shibatani, The languages of Japan, page=154, isbn=0521369185, pageurl=http://books.google.com/books?id=sD-MFTUiPYgC&pg=PA154
, passage=Phenomimes "depict" states, conditions, or manners of the external world, while psychomimes symbolize mental conditions or sensations.}}
Ideophone is a synonym of phenomime.
As nouns the difference between ideophone and phenomime
is that ideophone is a word that utilizes sound symbolism to express aspects of events that can be experienced by the senses, like smell, color, shape, sound, action, or movement while phenomime is (linguistics) a word or phrase that mimics a certain physical form or motion.ideophone
English
(wikipedia ideophone)Noun
(en noun)- In insults the ideophone occurs either in its characteristic position, the verb phrase, or uncharacteristically as a modifier in a noun phrase.
