Comparative Concept: psychomime (str)
Extracted from the appendix of Morphosyntax: Constructions of the World's Languages, by William Croft (2022)
psychomime (str)
| Typ | strategy |
|---|---|
| Alias(se) | psychomime |
| Assoziiert |
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Definition
the ideophone strategy used to express an experiential property such as bodily sensation or emotion. Example: Japanese kurakura 'dizzy' is a psychomime; it describes a physiological sensation (dizziness) using an ideophone. (Section 14.4)