Chapter published in:
Sound–Emotion Interaction in Poetry: Rhythm, Phonemes, Voice Quality
Reuven Tsur † and Chen Gafni
[Linguistic Approaches to Literature 39] 2022
► pp. 19–44

Chapter 1
Methodological issues in the study of phonetic symbolism

Article outline
  • 1.1Introduction
  • 1.2A welter of conflicting findings
  • 1.3A structural theory of phonetic symbolism
    • 1.3.1Organisation of the mental database
    • 1.3.2The structure of emotions
    • 1.3.3The structure of phonemes
    • 1.3.4Principles of sound symbolism
  • 1.4The case of onomatopoeia
  • 1.5Selective fine-grained distinctions
  • 1.6Accommodating conflicting findings
  • 1.7Non-reductive statistical investigation
  • 1.8Emotive dictionaries
  • 1.9Conclusions
  • Notes